Think!
This is an interesting American blog, Think, which is a Program Designed to Encourage Kids to Think Outside of the Box
Have a look – you may find something that interests you and encourages you to think outside the box or square!
Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’
New Blogs
You might like to check some new blogs I have found.
My Web World This blog is written by Piers, and 8 year old from Auckland
The Other Blog One of Mr Woody’s students from Fairfield Intermediate
Room 8 Melville Intermediate There are a lot of links on the sidebar of this blog to other classes in NZ and around the world
Room 6’s Creations Year 7 & 8 from St Pius, Auckland
Flying High Room 12 & 13 Pt England School, Auckland
Mr Crosby’s Class A 6th grade class in USA who have been blogging for a couple of years
Have you found any new blogs that you think others might be interested in reading?
International Blogging Challenge
Are you ready to take up the blogging challenge?
The student blogging challenge starts in March…..have you joined?
This is a great opportunity for:
- Students to connect with other student bloggers while improving your blogging skills.
- Teacher to guide their students through the process of learning to blog and improving their reflective writing skills.
To join as a class or student blog you just need to complete the form at the bottom of this post.
Discoveries!
For anyone afraid of the dark, stop reading now! OK, just don’t play Neverending Light. This is a Flash based browser game which although it can be a cheesy at times, is also a little bit scary due to its good use of light and dark. You begin the game as part of a group on a tourist tour of a mine, then the lights go out…
It’s very linear, but an enjoyable few minutes (unfortunately there’s no pause). You’ll need Flash 10 installed, and be warned – it’s a bit grisly. This came from ON Software
Then I found this amusing video clip!
Interesting World Clock
Click on this link Poodwaddle World Clock to watch an interesting, interactive clock which has up to the minute data on Energy, Environment, Population, Illness etc.
Bits and Pieces
I’ve just been cleaning out all my feeds from other blogs and have found some sites that you might find useful or interesting. Leave a comment if you do find something you like!
Free Rice This site now has a variety of subjects where you can donate rice for every answer you get right – Art, Chemistry, English, Geography, Math and Language Learning.
Cadbury Eyebrows
Eyebrows brings to life the story of a brother and sister’s moment of mischief when backs are turned and they are left to their own devices. Feeling the rhythm, the children crank out a range of eyebrow dance moves for 60 seconds to the sound of ‘Don’t Stop the Rock’ by electro-funk superstar, Freestyle.
Assembler is a new physics based wonder where you move some depository equipment to get your precious green crate in position. For what? No matter! Physics work perfect and the feel of grabbing and moving around things is just perfect. Don’t play too much or you’ll dream of dirty green crates flying around.
PHOTO OP (Shockwave, 7 MB) is a two-part interactive activity that introduces you to digital photography and digital photo editing. Use the virtual camera to create snapshots and explore lighting, focus, shutter speed, and compositional effects. After you have taken some photos, transform your pictures into something completely different.
This Art Zone interactive is suitable for all ages. You can take simple snapshots or create complex artistic compositions by layering, applying filters, and experimenting with various special effects, lighting, and blends. If your Internet connection is slow, allow the program to load fully, then come back to play. Scroll down for some hints about how to use PHOTO OP.
Think you know all about the dangers of chat rooms and mobile phones? Check out Cybernetrix for a total run down on the latest! A game to teach you internet safety.
Closure is a fantastic way to while away dark evenings. This browser-based black and white puzzle game cleverly utilizes the movement of light sources to help guide your silent character to the exit of each level. Control is from the keyboard, and the start of the game is a comprehensive tutorial, so you’ll have no problem picking it up. You can only stand on what you can see, so for example if the ground you are on loses its light source, you’ll fall to your doom (and begin the level again).
The hand drawn flickering graphics alongside the spooky sound effects make this a really atmospheric little game. It’s not scary, just spooky, with the light occasionally revealing strange messages scrawled on the background as your stooped protagonist travels silently onward. There are 30 levels to complete, and it’s a nice challenge worth completing. There are very few games with this ethereal and quiet atmosphere, and I highly recommend you waste some of your time getting to know Closure.
Bear in mind you need to have Flash 10 installed to run this, which is available here for Firefox
Environmental Graffiti is a good website for environmental science.There are some very interesting and unusual topics to read about.
Class Connection
I have just read a message from a teacher in North Hollywood, California who wants some students to connect with his class and leave comments on his students blogs. If any of you read this post before school starts and would like to read their blogs and leave comments the go to
Our class blog is
http://tparent831.edublogs.org/
My class website is
You may get to meet some more interesting students from another part of the world.
Happy blogging!
Time For Something New
After all our frustrations with edublogs over the past year I might have found somewhere else to host a web space for us to use in 2009. I read about Weebly in a post from Graham Wegner so headed over ther to check it out. While it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that we had in the ‘old’ edublogs it may suit our purposes for this year. It may also be a useful place for students to set up their eportfolios which we are starting this year – yes, finally ditching the paper ones!
You can check out new space, Rooms 3’s Conversations here
Tribute to Randy Pausch
This is a tribute to Randy Pausch who died from pancreatic cancer on 25th July 08.
You may have seen a video of Randy on the ‘Sunday’ current affairs TV programme a few weeks ago.
Thanks to Jenny Luca via Sujokat for the link.
You can read more about Randy and his life at Susie Vesper’s blog, Sharing the Addiction.
Here is a recent video of Randy Pausch on Good Morning America, May 19, 2008.
Finally, here’s a link to a tribute by ABC http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LastLecture
What Do You Think?
Have a good look at this!
Room 3’s Exciting Week
Monday:
Was a public holiday so everyone hung out at home enjoying the long weekend.
Tuesday:
We had maths in the morning but I had finished everything so got a little bit of freetime to work on my blog posts. After morning tea we had Tech Arts. The year 7’s are doing cooking and year 8’s are doing fabric. I made Banana Cake with chocolate icing(sooo healthy). It was soo yum though. After lunch we had a new task due on the following Monday. We have to write a report on either elephants or wetas using the notes that Mrs Crowe has given us.
Wednesday:
Today was pretty much a normal day. Maths in the morning, writing, all the usual things. But we had a huge discussion on China and Tibet and all of the things we think are going on there. We are starting a big study on the 2008 Olympics and how some people are trying to “Boycott” them. This discussion went on for quite a while and I’m pretty sure we all learnt at least one thing. Some of us learnt what the Dalai Lama was.
Thursday:
This was pretty much a normal day for me but most of the others went off to Band in the morning while the people who don’t do it stayed behind and did english with Mrs Shaw. After morning tea while some of the people went to Jazz band we did French. We all had to present a French play which was lots of fun. We had to say hello and ask someone what their name was and how to spell it. We got to add other things in if we wanted to as long as we could pronounce it properly. After lunch I would normally have Maori but instead we had Badminton. That was sooo much fun. It was really funny but we had to leave early so we didn’t get a full session.
Friday:
We had sport today which was great fun. There was a choice of hockey, netball, basketball, and some more which I can’t really remember. I was in basketball and we played for our house. My team won two games and lost one which was pretty good!
It was a pretty average week in Room 3 but there were a lot of things that were a LOT of fun!
