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Below are three examples of student work. All three examples are in different forms but are all based on the common theme of using ICTs, with a connection to mathematics. These three examples were created by students within their year eight Mathematics class. The **unit** of work was **Probability,** see below for further information.

Student Sample 1: Blog
 * Quick explanation:** This class posted a blog at the end of each week as a reflection tool to help them discuss and consider what they had learnt for the week. Students posted these blogs on blogger and invited other students to encourage interaction between each and every student.

David: Blog 1 Welcome to my first blog post. My name is David and I am a year eight Mathematics student. This term we are learning about Probability. Our class is blogging each week to reflect on our learning along the way and are posting our blogs on a web 2.0 tool called blogger.com.

This week our teacher introduced us to probability. Below are three new terms that we defined in class this week.

**Probability** is the measure of how likely an event is An **Outcome** is the result of a single trial of an experiment An **Event** is one or more outcomes of an experiment I also remember hearing words such as Joint Probabilty, Theoretical Probabilty and Conditional Probabilty. Hopefully I will have a clear understanding of these terms when we continue next week.

This week has helped me to create a link between probability, mathematics and the real world. I feel that creating this link to real life examples helped me to understand the mathematics better.


 * Did anyone else find that when linking our new mathematics topic to real life, helped to understand the content easier?**

David

Click on the icon below to visit blogger.com



Student Sample 2: Wordle **Quick explanation:** After students wrote their blogs, they were then able to copy, paste and adjust their words to create a Wordle of their work. This was used as a summarising tool, as students could look back and see what was covered during a certain week, and most importantly the specific words used.

Have a go at answering the following questions. Click on the icon below to visit wordle.com
 * 1) What words stand out the most?
 * 2) Why is this so?
 * 3) What would you use Wordle for? Come up with two examples.



Student Sample 3: GoAnimate **Quick explanation:** After reflecting and summarising each week on the Mathematics content covered in class (blogs and wordle), the assessment piece that students were to submit was a two minute video clip using GoAnimate (ALL students at/close to the proficient stage). Students could choose content from any week of the course. The requirement was that students not only had to use content from the course, but provide an example or explanation using key terms and concepts.

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Questions
 * 1) What did you learn in this video?
 * 2) Was this an effective way of learning?

Have a go at making your own at GoAnimate.com