April 30th
To say that we are doing many things differently these days is a gross understatement! Before going to explore activites I’ve assigned for today (and some how-to videos), please leave a comment here about what skills (or tools) you have had to learn or improve a lot while working from home.
Please also remember to visit me for feedback & small group discussion online in Teams this morning (also tomorrow). Login to your school Office365 account and go to the calendar in Teams to join the session.
I look forward to your comments, questions & discussion.
April 29th
I was delighted to see many students’ comments that the demonstrations I gave during our meeting yesterday were helpful. It was certainly frustrating having the difficulties we had with sound!
I’m asking students to reply to an email messsage today that I have sent to your school-assigned Office 365 address to confirm that you are able to read & reply to those messages in Outlook. So check for my email. For help, I have another Teams meeting scheduled for you between 9:30 and 11:30 where I’m available for help & feedback. Join the meeting through the calendar in Teams. And check the list of assigned activites. I’m looking forward to reading (listening to?) your story endings!
I’ve also just added links to some how-to videos in that list of assigned activites to help you in case you are still not sure (or have forgotten) how to do things like login to Office365 or hand in work online.
April 28th
I am looking forward to our next class meeting online later this morning. I’ll be posting some new activities after we get a chance to chat at our meeting, there is one creative storytelling option for this week you may want to have a look at sooner rather than later.
Before we meet together, I am hoping most of you will follow this link and complete the short survey there.
Hi Mr Milloy! Last week I had my birthday, and me and my mom made some chocolate cake. I had so much fun. I also saw a blue jay out side yesterday and other birds too.
I wish you had mentioned your birthday during our meeding today! We could have all sung ‘Happy Birthday’ to you! (OK, with microphones spontaneously muting and with audio/video lag online, it might not have been an award-winning performance. But I am sorry we didn’t get to give you our best wishes for your birthday.)
its ok mr milloy i forgot to mention it on the meeting today. sorry
Hi Mr Milloy
It was very nice to see and hear you this morning, I think on how amazing it’s that we can do this throughout technology but I really miss the school and all the activities we do. We don’t usually appreciate what we have until is gone, we taken for granted so many things.
It does seem to be a lesson we must relearn again and again. But practising appreciation is a good thing to do and is good for us.
I want to tell you something I am a secret agent and I am here to stop my enemy Lucas
I hope your comment here is the beginning of what will become your one minute long ending to the story I posted earlier from CBC (because if you are actually a secret agent, it is probably a bad idea to mention that fact in a comment on a blog on the Internet!).
I think mayday means that you need help in French and it is also similar to the French word M’adider which means you need help. Mayday means (May 1) Mayday is a festival celebrated in many countries in Europe in this festival people celebrate it by dancing, singing and baking cakes.
Thanks for doing some research (but I hope it didn’t keep you working too late!).