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We’re done! We learned about water conservation from several websites and read an editorial containing water use statistics. Then we watched PSAs to see the strategies used by to persuade people to change the way they think and behave on topics from littering to water use. Here is one example of our work. This text [...]

Tags: environment, Global Citizenship, PSA

Believe it or not, this is a graph: It shows the frequency of words that turn up in a selected text. I took all of our About Me pages and created this Wordle. I infer the following things from this graph: our class is social: we value family and friendships our class is active: we [...]

Tags: Student Blogging Challenge, Wordle

Guest Post This guest post is written by Div. 16 student Haley.  Today, most of the kids in our class came dressed in green, white, orange, and tiger colours. Why? Because today was our school’s Spirit Day! Our mascot and representitive of our school is the tiger; which would explian why most of us dressed [...]

Tags: school spirit, Student Blogging Challenge

We’ve been getting our techie groove on… And it is quite amazing how far we have come! We’ve learned to read, comment, write, format, and publish, change our theme, and many other skills besides. We are about to learn something new: adding a blogroll. A blogroll is a list of links to other blogs to [...]

Tags: Blogroll, commenting, Student Blogging Challenge

I am hoping to post a few more of these videos in the coming days, just waiting for a few more permission forms (hint, hint). The Lunar Beach hike was a great experience, a nice opportunity to get up close and personal with an unique environment. More images coming soon!

Tags: Hornby, Student Blogging Challenge

Today bloggers around the world are thinking about and writing about poverty. The first video above by the band Radiohead is a powerful reminder that people’s lives are affected by many things they can’t control, including the circumstances they are born into. For blog action day, choose one of these activities: write your response to [...]

Tags: Blog Action Day, Global Citizenship, poverty, Student Blogging Challenge

We get by with a little help from our friends… Miss Sue Wyatt teaches in Tasmania, Australia and is the heart and energy behind the Student Blogging Competition. (It’s more of a blog challenge with weekly ideas on how to read, write, and connect between student bloggers around the world, with a bit of recognition [...]

Tags: Student Blogging Challenge