DAYS OF THE WEEK

If you've wondered why so many 2M Gems have been humming or singing the Addams Family tune lately, it's not because we have been watching re-runs of the T.V show... it's because we have been working on our March task for Voices of the World.

March's task was to create a slideshow of the 'DAYS of the WEEK'.

First we had to create slides for the days of the week in Kid Pix. We found 'writing' with a mouse very tricky, and it looked like we would run out of time, so thank goodness Ben D found a feature in Kid Pix that allows you to resize and move letters.

Jarvis was the 'expert' CREATOR and DESIGNER who made most of the slides in one session and we helped Mrs M

upload them into Powerpoint.

Next we had to choose an 'Addams Family' backing track.

All of the tracks we could choose from were fast, so we had

LOTS of practising before we recorded ourselves on the ipod.

Finally we uploaded the Powerpoint and the audio file into

myplick.We had trouble syncing the slides with the audio but after

many goes, Mrs M finally got it synced...and here's the result!

Days of the Week VOTW

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VOICES OF THE WORLD

In October last year, the those of us who were in 1M joined a

worldwide, collaborative project - VOICES of the WORLD.

This exciting project was created to unite children around the world using voice and sound.
Each month, using a different Web 2.0 tool, our task was to create an audio file that then became part of a VOICES of the WORLD wiki.

SEPTEMBER's task was to make a VOKI to introduce yourself to the other schools. You can see 1M's here
and you can see others from around the world here.

In OCTOBER, we used ANIMOTO to share our National Anthem.
You can watch everyone's here. We are at the top of the menu on the right hand side.

For NOVEMBER's task, everyone had to sing 'TWINKLE, TWINKLE' and use a PAINT program and ONE TRUE MEDIA to create a slide show to go with it. You will find all the slideshows here.

We missed out on the DECEMBER task as we had already finished school for the year but you can listen to all the other schools singing 'JINGLE BELLS' here.

As the 2M Gems, we are still part of this project and we came back to school just in time to participate in JANUARY's task.

This month we all contributed to a VOICETHREAD about food, clothes, musical instruments and sports. We recorded our part yesterday. It was an exciting way to start the year. You can watch and listen here.

CAN YOU IDENTIFY WHO SPOKE FROM 2M?

WE FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT SOME WORDS ARE THE SAME, WHETHER THEY ARE IN ENGLISH OR ANOTHER LANGUAGE. CAN YOU NAME THE WORDS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT?

Let us know your thoughts in a comment.