Cybersmart

11 Whiringa-ā-rangi | 11 November: Summer Learning Journey

Click on the image to go to the sample activity for this year's Summer Learning Journey.


Photos of last year's winners

13 Whiringa-ā-nuku | 13 October: Creating Original Media

Smart learners create original media

Creating original media with Book Creator

The class code has been emailed to you to copy and paste to log in

Book Creator is a simple tool for creating digital books. Create your own...

Combine text, images, audio and video to create:

    • Interactive stories

    • Digital portfolios

    • Research journals

    • Poetry books

    • Science reports

    • Instruction manuals

    • ‘About me’ books

    • Comic adventures

Examples to read below...

1 September | 1 Mahuru: Creating Original Media

Creating original media with WeVideo

Today we will be creating a video about some part of our school life with 3 photos.

Choose up to 3 photos about the same thing e.g. Matariki or Enviro Schools or sports events.

Think about the type of video this will be

  • evidence of your learning

  • teaching others

Quality Blog Post:

Share your video in a quality blog post remembering to expand your ideas about this learning, and in particular why we need to create our own original media like videos.

Creating original media with WeVideo:

  • logging on

  • uploading media

  • headings - how to animate

  • backgrounds

  • narrate to explain your learning

  • audio as background

WeVideo & Drive settings

  • WeVideo - link to Drive

  • A folder is created in Drive.

  • Move to Cybersmart folder

  • sharing settings - anyone with link can view

18 August | 18 Here-turi-kōkā: Quality Blog Posts - Photo Collage

What can you teach others with your blog posts?

  • quality blog post elements?

  • why a collage and not a row of photos?

  • what your new learning was?

  • challenges and fun parts and WHY?

  • how do you feel about this learning?

  • What were you thinking as you were choosing the photos?

  • What made you choose these particular photos? What learning do they show?

  • what design techniques did you use and WHY?

How can your learning reflections at the start of your post catch the reader's attention and make them want to read more?

Can you teach others with your blog posts?

Open these tabs:

  1. Cybersmart Term 3 on the class site

  2. Blog > new post

  3. Photo collage > Cybersmart folder in your Drive

4 August | 4 Here-turi-kōkā: Photo Collage

Learn how to create a photo collage in Google Slides so your blog has style.

This means that we don't have to keep scrolling on your blog page to see all the photos.

Ruby's Matariki Breakfast blog post

Aedan's Matariki Breakfast blog post


If you make a collage we can see all your photos at once.

Your photos can be either in your Drive or on your Chromebook.

download photos > Insert into the Google Slide template

Quality Blog Posts:

How can your learning reflections at the start of your post catch the reader's attention and make them want to read more.

What can you teach them in this blog post?

  • design techniques?

  • quality blog post elements?

  • why a collage and not a row of photos?

  • what your new learning was?

  • challenges and fun parts and WHY?