DLO Explanation writing (What causes lightning?)

 

We were learning to create a DLO (Digital learning object) about explanation writing. Explanation writing is where you explain how to do something or why something happens. We got to choose out of a few questions that involved a life cycle, I chose "what causes lightning". The things we needed to do were, research about what are question was, a plan of our writing, a diagram and our writing.

I was being a researcher because I had to go onto my chromebook and search up the information I was looking for for this DLO about what causes lightning.

I found it easy to find all of my information about what causes lightning because I found one website that had quite a bit of information. I also found it easy to write out my writing because I had already found a lot of information.

I found it hard to create my diagram on google drawings because we had to make it completely from scratch but I found a way how to do it, for example I made the ice crystals from the second part of the diagram from using x's and putting them in different positions. I also found it hard to find a upright background because I needed to find something to do with lightning.

I really enjoyed this because I got to learn one of the questions that I have had and now have the answer too. I also so enjoyed this because I got to play around with what my slide looked like how I used word art in my slide.

Next time I need to make my diagram look better because some of the arrows are out of place and make it look a bit more clear about what the first part of my diagram is about, (which is cold air being the blue part the red part being the warm air and the middle being the storm.)        

China DLO

 

In term 4 week 1 rooms 9 and 10 got a surprise envelope from the office at Mangapapa. We looked at the envelope we noticed that it had stamps from around the world on it and dirt we thought the envelope had traveled a long way. 

 We were learning to create a DLO about a certain country. We had to find a partner and then we got handed a piece of paper from the envelope. Me and my partner studied the paper for about ten seconds and released that we had got handed a letter from a girl in China. We had to read the letter after we read the letter we shared things about what we had learnt from it. We did a few different activities then on the last activity we had to make a DLO about what we have learnt.  

I found it easy to understand all of the words in the letter because there went many Chinese words. I also found it easy to record my voice so that it sounded fine on a website that our teachers told us about.

I found it challenging to fit everything in and make it look good on one google slide because there where quite a few things we needed to  fit in! I also found it hard to find good free to use picture because when you type up free to use it doesn't have as much of a selection.

 

I really enjoyed this because it was easier to work with two people so we had two brains to work with. I also really enjoyed this because I've learnt a lot of things about China like how they have six day of school and I only have 5 days of school.

Next time I need to try and make things smaller and not put to many pictures in my google slide and have more voice record parts in the google slide about what the picture mean and more information about them. 

   

Three drones DLO reading

 

We were learning to read a nonfiction book and then write about it for example, write five facts, write about why the Author wrote the book/Author's purpose, Research skills about were you could find more information and Vocabulary. After that you had to make another slide about what you learnt about reading the book that you choose, the things that you had to include in it were have your own sketch or diagram, searched for free to use pictures, red fount to match diagram, arrows to show the order to read it, added voice to teach others, outlined in text box-to show main point and bracket to help understand vocab.

I found it easy to draw my sketch because I found a picture online to copy of. I also found it easy to find free to use pictures that related to my slide off the internet to insert into my slide. I also found it easy to create the autio once we had found a website to  do it on.

I found it hard to figure out what part of the book I was going to write about, the parts of a drone or what the uses of the drones are theses days. I also found it hard to find a catchy title for that slide but I eventually figured it out:"Drones, the eye in the sky".

I really enjoyed this because now I know how to create a DLO/Digital Learning Object and I found learning how to do that really fun! I also enjoyed this because I read a book about drones and now I know the purpose of drones because I used to think they were just a flying piece of technology!  

Next time I need to add more detail such as adding more picture to add more red words to relate to the pictures. Next time I also need to something related to drone/the book I was reading.