On friday we will be calling a canadian class on a programme called skype! I have been visiting the blogs of the chlidren in a class in canada and can’t wait to actually talk to them. Canada is so much different to Australia. I wan’t to learn all i can about Canada and hope they learn a little bit about us. For all the people that don’t no, skype is a programme where you can call someone from the computer. My dad likes to use it to call our pop who lives a fair way away from us. It’s a good programme to use. I would like to find out about the children from Canada about there season. If It was Summer(December,January and Feburary) what would the season be there? How different are their learning systems? What did the winter Olympics torch look like? Is it exciting to have the winter Olympics held near you?
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Original image: ‘Old Romanian made phone‘
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by: Gabriel
Tuesday’s are the day in the week that we work on our presentation for ancient civilizations. My team (Elliot, Skye,Luke and I) are doing it on ancient Greece and it is going very well Ithink. I am doing 3 subjects about ancient Greece which are: slaves,Gods & Goddesses and Food. It is going well but i don’t know if we will be ready for the presentation because Luke in my team got confused about what heis doing and didn’t really get much work done for the first two weeks. Also i don’t think we will be ready because we haven’t practiced yet and haven’t got the order of presenting, but i think Elliot will be going first with his subject of Olympus, Then Luke with the subject of Spartans after him Skye will be going with her subjects of Games, Vases and Sickness and then I will be going last with my subjects. As a team we are doing a joint power point with everyone having a subject on it.
This week is the final week of the blogging challenge and we were asked what we would like to write about next blogging challenge. I think that some good topics are: Free choice, Nature, something a bit more about the enviroment and an expreience of some sort. I think all those would interest me enough to do this next year. We were also asked to write about some question we would ask to people in different countries that they could then write a post about: I think that asking about the season is good because they’re different all around the world. maybe about illnesses over in other countries and how they handle it. Well that was the last week of the blogging challenge!
The challenge this week is to talk about ‘Digital footprints’ A digital footprint is like using a avatar or something to represent you. Some peopleuse their actual picture but i don’t think that is very wise. I use and avatar on most the things like edublogs and facebook. and i can be found on both of those sites. I think that teacherds should teach you about internet savvy because they should know how risky putting your picture up on the internet is. On facebook you can actually save the picture of another person equalling in stolen identies. I think that you should only inculde some of your infomation, i don’t think people should put up their school name or phone number and should have their settings locked with only you being able to know or access them. Are you internet savvy?
I haven’t been very good with keeping up to blogging challenge so i thought it would be a good chance to do it.
I am going to write about breast cancer. Women every year get breast cancer and yes it is a cure.But did you know not only women get this? in fact men can get breast cancer too!but it is rarer in men. It is a sad thing to get any type of cancer there are cures but sometimes you don’t get them. like if you have a cancer that hasn’t got a cure yet. People need money to do research and save others lives! You may know that the breast cancer symbol is a pink ribbon (like the image i put on) And you may also know that there’s a day for it where we wear these ribbons. I did some research about this and found out the how you can actually get it.
Personal history of breast cancer: A woman who had breast cancer in one breast has an increased risk of getting cancer in her other breast.
Family history: A woman’s risk of breast cancer is higher if her mother, sister, or daughter had breast cancer. The risk is higher if her family member got breast cancer before age 40. Having other relatives with breast cancer (in either her mother’s or father’s family) may also increase a woman’s risk.
Race: Breast cancer is diagnosed more often in Caucasian women than Latina, Asian, or African American women.
This is such a good cause because lots of women get it. If you would like to know more about Breast cancer visit the website.
Motivational media: A while ago we had a group visit us and talk about rebounding. It was very inspriering to hear about all the stories and things people went through. Like lars olsen who started up the forget me not foundation for kids in countries less fourtune than ours. My favourite talk was on about james and justin who have a website called ’Crossing The Ditch’ they kayaked to new zealand and went through some real hard times, like Having a shortage of food and sleep, endured 10 m swells, and faced wind up to 50knots. It was a really good story to hear. If you would like to know more about it please visit their website. Go to : Crossing The Ditch
November 19th is national toilet day. Now at the start of being told it was national toilet day i laughed because it seemed silly to have a day for toilets, but then i heard more about it. National toilet day is a day is making you aware of the 2.5 billion people who don’t have access to sanitation and have a lack of hygiene. It kills around 1.8 million a year and most of them are children. In countries without toilet they have to squat which can lead to them getting diarrhea an can kill 5,000 kids EVERY DAY. The big squat are raising awareness for this by squatting for 1 minute on the day. I may look silly but it is a good cause. You may have heard of a programme where you adopt a kid living in poor conditions, well the first of the money you give towards that cause will go to making them get clean water and preventing these diseases. It is amazing how one toilet can change the lives of so many people. The water is very important. It needs to be clean.
Yesterday, thursday the 5th i was away because i have a cold. Its a bad cold i can’t even taste which i hate. I missed out on the lady who does the voice over of blinky bill but I was in no place to go to school.Its really weird how i’ve got this cold because it is spring here and it’s really bad because tonight we were going to go out for tea but because i cant taste anything we aren’t any more which i really wanted to. Stay home days are fun because you can sit at home and watch t.v but its not very fun when you feel really sick. have you ever stayed home because of a sickness? Is swine flu a big thing in your country?
Original image: ‘Late night‘
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by: eden politte
We are doing prjects on a particular topic, our group is doing ancient greece and i have being doing things about it with: food, myths/lengends and slaves. Slaves is interesting me the most because it is so different to our lifes now.
Bubbl.us is a site we used to build a mind map for organising our project. our team have done one of Ancient Greece. Bubbl.us is a great site to use, it really helps you with your mind. you can get everything out one one programme and once its out more stuff just keeps coming. Here is a example of bubble.us. Do use it , it is a great site esspecially helping you not the copy others published work!!
On friday we will be calling a canadian class on a programme called skype! I have been visiting the blogs of the chlidren in a class in canada and can’t wait to actually talk to them. Canada is so much different to Australia. I wan’t to learn all i can about Canada and hope they learn a little bit about us. For all the people that don’t no, skype is a programme where you can call someone from the computer. My dad likes to use it to call our pop who lives a fair way away from us. It’s a good programme to use. I would like to find out about the children from Canada about there season. If It was Summer(December,January and Feburary) what would the season be there? How different are their learning systems? What did the winter Olympics torch look like? Is it exciting to have the winter Olympics held near you?
This week is the final week of the blogging challenge and we were asked what we would like to write about next blogging challenge. I think that some good topics are: Free choice, Nature, something a bit more about the enviroment and an expreience of some sort. I think all those would interest me enough to do this next year. We were also asked to write about some question we would ask to people in different countries that they could then write a post about: I think that asking about the season is good because they’re different all around the world. maybe about illnesses over in other countries and how they handle it. Well that was the last week of the blogging challenge!
I am going to write about breast cancer. Women every year get breast cancer and yes it is a cure.But did you know not only women get this? in fact men can get breast cancer too!but it is rarer in men. It is a sad thing to get any type of cancer there are cures but sometimes you don’t get them. like if you have a cancer that hasn’t got a cure yet. People need money to do research and save others lives! You may know that the breast cancer symbol is a pink ribbon (like the image i put on) And you may also know that there’s a day for it where we wear these ribbons. I did some research about this and found out the how you can actually get it.
Motivational media: A while ago we had a group visit us and talk about rebounding. It was very inspriering to hear about all the stories and things people went through. Like lars olsen who started up the forget me not foundation for kids in countries less fourtune than ours. My favourite talk was on about james and justin who have a website called
November 19th is national toilet day. Now at the start of being told it was national toilet day i laughed because it seemed silly to have a day for toilets, but then i heard more about it. National toilet day is a day is making you aware of the 2.5 billion people who don’t have access to sanitation and have a lack of hygiene. It kills around 1.8 million a year and most of them are children. In countries without toilet they have to squat which can lead to them getting diarrhea an can kill 5,000 kids EVERY DAY. The big squat are raising awareness for this by squatting for 1 minute on the day. I may look silly but it is a good cause. You may have heard of a programme where you adopt a kid living in poor conditions, well the first of the money you give towards that cause will go to making them get clean water and preventing these diseases. It is amazing how one toilet can change the lives of so many people. The water is very important. It needs to be clean.
Yesterday, thursday the 5th i was away because i have a cold. Its a bad cold i can’t even taste which i hate. I missed out on the lady who does the voice over of blinky bill but I was in no place to go to school.Its really weird how i’ve got this cold because it is spring here and it’s really bad because tonight we were going to go out for tea but because i cant taste anything we aren’t any more which i really wanted to. Stay home days are fun because you can sit at home and watch t.v but its not very fun when you feel really sick. have you ever stayed home because of a sickness? Is swine flu a big thing in your country?
