Week 4

http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/

We started the tutorial by watching a video from the above website named "Mermaid Story", this story was about an aboriginal elder who was wondering the land and later finds himself swimming with spirits. There are a number of different short videos on the website and there are some wonderful study guides and literature to go along with the videos.

Our task is to watch another short film and take screen shots that we believe represents the film

We see a story of good magic fighting bad magic, and triumphing.

This story is told mostly to children to keep them close to the camp at night. Namorrodor is a night creature, who should be feared. It also tells of the power of medicine and the knowledge of the elders in the camp

The main message is about being aware of and protecting yourself against evil and harm.

Excel Exercise

The next exercise involved m&m's and the graphing of different colours. First we talked about the dangers of allergies and how we as teachers need to be very particular about what sort of food we give kids as they may be allergic. Kids may also be allergic to things such as fruit, band aids etc

The above graphs were a screen shot of my excel inputs, they represent the number of different colours found within a packet of m&ms. Kids should attempt to read the graphs as they are however you can add numbers to the columns to help them interpret the graphs/pie charts. In this tutorial we have colour coated the graph and added a picture to the spreadsheet.

Many people find excel hard to use and do not like using this software, I have always found it easy to use and it is very valuable for many subjects within the school curiculum.