Tuesday, June 30, 2009

More about kites

Interested in finding out more about kites?

Click on the following links!

How does a kite fly?

Singapore Kite Association

Make your own kite!

Monday, June 29, 2009

Ground Rules for Brainstorming




What Roles do We Play?

Leader

  • Let everyone speak one at a time

  • Remind everyone to talk only about the project

  • Give an equal amount of work to everyone

  • Keep track of progress
Reporter

  • Write down the duties of ech member

  • Record the ides of members

Questioner
  • Remind everyone to talk only about the project

  • Raise questions when in doubt

  • Clarifies ideas
Encourager
  • Praise members for interesting ideas

  • Thank members for conrtibutions

  • Ask members what they think of others' ideas






Tuesday, June 23, 2009

How to insert tables into the blog?

One of the ways to insert tables into the blog, you have to create the blog using Microsoft Powerpoint. After you have keyed in the data in the table, right click on the mouse and select " save as picture" as shown in the picture below. ( Take note to save the file as *.png)
After saving the picture in your thumbdrive, you may proceed to insert the picture into your blog.
Hope this helps to clarifies some of the problem.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

How to post pictures to your blog?

Please refer to the link to find out how you can post pictures to your blog.


http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41641

Friday, June 19, 2009

Reflection

To help you in your reflections, you may like to consider the following questions

  • Have you spent adequate time working on the project?
  • Are you satisfied with the effort you put into the project
  • What are some thing I will do the same the next time?
  • What are some things that change?
  • What did you learn from the process of doing the project?

Cyber Wellness


Netiquette
(Customs or rules that are regarded as correct in the Cyber World. )

• Be mindful of how your friends will feel.
• Try to imagine yourself in their situation.
• Avoid typing in CAPTITAL LETTERS. If you would like to emphasize on something, use italics or bold or change the colour of the word(s).

Copyright Issues
(Legal right granted to someone for their work)

• Rephrase what you have found out.
E.g. “Hold the kite in both hands and toss it lightly into the wind until the wind catches it. This works well when the wind is moderately strong.” --
http://www.ehow.com/how_1289_fly-kite.html
– Rephrase to “We need to use both hands to toss the kite into the wind.”
• Be mindful of where we get the pictures

• Limit your pictures to those found in Microsoft Clip art or take your own photos