Congratulations to the readers and writers on this international blog. We began this blog early in January 2009 in response to students who had taken part in the 2008 student blogging challenge. Since that time, we have had over 2500 visitors from 55 countries of the world. We have written 35 posts – that is at least one every week and have received over 440 comments.
If you and your teacher or class would like to join us, please email Miss Wyatt (see image below). Check out our pages on “About this blog” and “Who is involved” to find out more about the authors and classes.
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Well, here in Cape Town, South Africa, the school holidays are coming to a rapid end – the third term makes its presence felt on Monday 20th August! Thanks to this blog, our Grade 4&5 class got involved in some inspiring collaborative projects last term culminating in three-nation stories written between our Cape Town class, Miss Ale’s Grade 6 groups in Argentina and Mr Millward’s Intermediate class in Canada. I am going to put a couple of the stories below, along with a video Miss Ale made to say thank you for the collaboration. (I found this on her blog. Thank you Miss Ale!) Does anyone have any ideas for collaboration this coming term? It is something that is really enjoyed by both students and teachers alike.
Miss Ale’s class in Argentina and my Grade 4/5 class in South Africa have been writing stories collaboratively in circle groups using Etherpad. I have been looking around for ways of presenting these stories on blogs using a programme other than Empressr which downloads very slowly or sometimes not at all. I came across Slideboom.com and am eager to see if it opens up more easily. (Don’t forget to use the full screen button on the right bottom). There’s only one problem – anyone viewing can download the story as well. Do you think this is something that can be abused?
Have you ever thought of putting a podcast of an extract from a book on your blog? We have great fun this week reading into the microphone. Listen to Gaiwhe (online name) from Grade 4/5 in Cape Town reading an extract from “George’s Marvelous Medicine” by Raold Dahl.
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