MIT - Using Questions and Google Expeditions to Inspire Writing

Using Questions to help your Writing

We are looking at Explanations for this next term of learning (after Covid19). Explanations usually start with a question or at least answer a question.

I have included links to Google Expeditions and other experiences that could also help the students by inspiring writing.

With this in mind, I created another video and slide set about using Questions to help with writing. This slide set help children to understand the purpose of a question and what questions start with.

 

Questions are a great way to start a narrative or explanation as they focus the writer and reader on the same topic. Eg.

When was the first time you had bacon and eggs for breakfast? 

Already you are thinking back to the last time you had bacon and eggs, you may even remember the first time. I remember it was our go-to breakfast before a day of snow skiing on Mt Ruapehu.

Why is the grass green?

If you don't already know it is to do with the passing of light through objects, whereas the sky is blue due to the refraction of light on the particles in the atmosphere. Two great questions to write explanations about.

Here is the set of slide I used

Another Resource on Questions

DFI - Christchurch

DFI 2020

Christchurch

A great day thank you Christchurch beautiful and sunny. 

Everything ticked over nicely, running to time with the Facilitation of DFI Workflow. I even was reminded how to embed a video so a longer videos can be posted using embed code through the HTML page, to a post rather than having to ask students to make it shorter.

Step 1: Create your recording.

Step 2: Save recording to your drive.

Step 3: Open in the drive, click on 3 dots in the top right (on the black screen within the window playing with the movie clip.

Step 4: Click on open in a new window.

Step 5: click on the 3 dots at the top again for embed code.

Step 6: Click on embed code and prepared to copy and past it.

Step 7: Once embed code is copied, go to blog post HTML page and paste.

Hopefully, the final result ends up like this. It is so easy. Now I just have to remember it!!!!

Google Email - Update

Google Mail has some exciting new features. The idea of seeing my calendar or keep as I check emails and can add to them directly from gmail is an awesome experience.

This set of slides I presented at the latest Kootuitui Unconference.