Dust Echoes and M&M's

Today we used Inspiration, Paint, Excel and looked at a couple of websites (Dust Echoes and M&M's).

Dust Echoes is a website containing a number of indigenous stories. I chose to watch the video of Moon Man. It told a story about the moon being a man before it was in the sky. I paused the video on important parts of the story. I would print screen and put the image into Paint. I then cropped the image and copied and pasted it into Inspiration and added text to each image. The idea is to sequence it in a way that tells the story. We ran out of time so I didn't get to finish it but you get the idea by looking at the image above. I found the website to be very interesting and it would be a great resource for students to learn about indigenous culture.

Some of the stories are rather barbaric ('Moon Man' was one of those stories). I enjoyed this exercise but it was quite time consuming and like Greg said you wouldn't want students sitting down in front of a computer for this amount of time.

We also played around with Excel today. We were supposed to bring in a packet of M&M's for the activity but most people forgot or ate them before class. We entered colours into one column of excel and in the next column we entered the numbers representing the amount of those colours in the packet.

We created graphs displaying the amount of each M&M colour in the packet. I inserted a background image that I obtained from the M&M's website to link to the content of the graph and make the background more interesting.

The M&M website contains information that could be used in the primary school setting. Some things included are nutritional information, m&m recipes....