Monday 30 September 2013

Gotta Keep Reading

The next topic for Kidsedchatnz is Books and to get everyone thinking about the topic I thought I'd post this cool video. Check it out, it might give you some ideas for our next twitter chat!

Sunday 29 September 2013

Wednesday 16th October - Topic: Books

This week's topic for Kidsedchatnz is Books. Check out the questions!

Q1. Do you like/dislike books? How often do you read?

Q2. Are books important? Why do people read them?

Q3. Tell us about your favourite book and why do you like it?

Q4. Books provide us with lots of new information, can you share with us something you have learnt from a book?

Q5. Can you please share with us any on-line/digital books that you like?

Kidsedchatnz Posters

Check out these posters that were made by PalmyKids for their Hands-on Homework task! Pretty Cool!

Wednesday 25 September 2013

Tweet of the Week

This week's Tweet of the Week goes to......

 

Today's Kidsedchatnz Session

Thank you to all the classes that took part in today's Kidsedchatnz session. There were over 400 tweets recorded between 13 classes. It was great to see some new classes taking part and the kids did a great job reflecting on T3!

Check out a few of the classes in action!


Friday 20 September 2013

Wednesday 25th September - Topic: Term Reflection

This week's topic for Kidsedchatnz is a Term Reflection. Check out the questions!

Q1. What were your highlights for this term?

Q2. What has been a challenge or interesting this term?

Q3. Could you please share with us one piece of learning from this term?

Q4. What would you like to explore or learn about in Term 4?

Q5. What have you got planned for the holidays?

Wednesday 18 September 2013

Tweet of the Week

This week's Tweet of the Week goes to.....Watch the video to find out!

Today's Kidsedchatnz Session

Thank you to all the classes that took part in today's Kidsedchatnz session. There were over 350 tweets recorded between 8 classes. Not bad going! 

Check out a few of the classes in action!

Sunday 15 September 2013

How Use Tweetdeck

Tweetdeck is an awesome app that allows you to put tweets into columns. It's great to use during Kidsedchatnz. 

Anyway to make it easier for you I have made a short movie which shows you how to download, sign up and use Tweetdeck. I hope it makes sense to you!

Saturday 14 September 2013

How to Subscribe & Use Kidsedchatnz List

Here is a quick movie on how to subscribe and use the Kidsedchatnz List. Hopefully it makes sense to you!

Kid President - Teachers

Check out this cool video by Kid President about teachers. Hopefully it might give you some ideas for Wednesday's Kidsedchatnz teacher topic! Enjoy!

Thursday 12 September 2013

Kidsedchatnz Posters

Check out these cool posters made by R5 at Russell Street School about Kidsedchatnz. I think they did an amazing job!

Interface Magazine

It was great to see Kidsedchatnz featured as a lesson plan idea in today's Interface Magazine. Thanks Pascal for starting it up and a big thanks to everyone who has been taking part and supporting it!

Wednesday 11 September 2013

Wednesday 18th September - Topic: Teachers

This week's topic for Kidsedchatnz is Teachers! Here are the questions!

Q1. Tell us about your teacher at the moment.

Q2. If there is one thing you could change about your teacher what would it be?

Q3. Who is your favourite teacher and why?

Q4. Do you think there is a difference between male and female teachers?

Q5. What do you think makes a great teacher?

Tweet of the Week

Watch the video to find out who received Tweet of the Week!

Today's Kidsedchatnz Session

Thank you everyone who took part in today's Kidsedchatnz session! There were over 350 tweets recorded between 6 classes! 

The session ran smooth and it was great to see everyone using the Kidsedchatnz list instead of the Hashtag. 

Here are a few pictures of the classes taking part!


Tuesday 10 September 2013

Tweet of the Week!

And the winner of Kidsedchatnz Tweet of the Week goes to.......Each week I am going to look for the best tweet during Kidsedchatnz and they will win the award for Tweet of the Week!

Tweet of the Week winner will be announced every Wednesday after the Kidsedchatnz session and will feature on the Kidsedchatnz blog.

The criteria for Tweet of the Week is

- Did your tweet standout and was it interesting?
- Did your tweet get retweeted or favourited?
- Did your tweet include links, photos or video?
- Did your tweet help others to learn?
- Did your tweet use correct spelling and grammar?

Good luck everyone and I look forward tomorrow to announcing the first ever Kidsedchatnz Tweet of the Week winner!

Friday 6 September 2013

Kidsedchatnz Classes

Last week Kidsedchatnz was so popular that we started trending on twitter. Usually this would be great news but unfortunately all it did was attract the spammers and trolls to hit the #kidsedchatnz hashtag with 100's of inappropriate tweets.

Children safety and security it very important to us so obviously this can not happen again. 

So what are we going to do about it? Well firstly we are no longer going to use the #kidsedchatnz hashtag. Instead I have set up a twitter list of classes that take part and we want everyone to subscribe to that list. That way you can just watch the list on twitter instead of watching the hashtag.

A twitter list is just a group of twitter users put all in one place. It's actually very similar to a hashtag but a lot more private.

To subscribe to the list just click here and hit the subscribe button on the top left hand corner.

If you want to take part in kidsedchatnz you need to get your name on the list. So if you aren't on it just send me a tweet (@kidsedchatnz) and I will put it on straight away.

The list can still be used on tweetdeck and it's easy to add as a column. So on Wednesday instead of following the #kidsedchatnz hashtag you need to load the Kidsedchatnz list and follow that.

I hope all this makes sense, we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!


Winning Logo

Thanks to everyone who entered the Kidsedchatnz Logo Competition, your entries were fantastic!

So who came out on top? Well congratulation goes to Rosalind from Russell Street School for the winning entry!

Rosalind's Logo was chosen from a number of entries and the judges loved the way she featured the title, twitter bird and kids chatting all on a laptop!

Check out the winning entry below!


Wednesday 4 September 2013

Wednesday 11th September - Topic: Science

This week's topic for #kidsedchatnz is Science! Check out the questions!

Q1. What have you been learning about in Science this year?

Q2. Can you share with us an experiment you have taken part in this year? What did you learn?

Q3. What do you like/dislike about Science at school?

Q4. Why is it important to learn about Science at school?

Q5. What are some of your favourite science websites, videos or activities?

Today's #kidsedchatnz Session

Today's #kidsedchatnz session was on fire! 500 tweets between 16 classes is not a bad effort! Check out some of the classes involved, this is what I call engagement!

Topic - Maths

Today's #kidsedchatnz recorded......wait for it....500 tweets in one hour! Wow, that's an awesome effort! In all there were 16 classes tweeting which is up 5 from last week.

Well done everyone, it was an fantastic session and we hope to see you all back next week!