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Our School is amazing

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As I work on the school blog I cannot help but be amazed at all the incredible activities and learning experiences our students are exposed to. The brilliant teaching staff and fantastic and diverse student and parent community. For me this is what is so special about public education and even better it is accessible to everyone…how good is that 🙂

How cool is our school? on PhotoPeach

Check out Mohamed and Mrs Jacka racing each other on the athletics track Mrs Jacka created in her virtual world sim-on-a-stick. I was a bit cheeky telling Mohamed to run across the field…BUT he started late :-/

Mohamed and Mrs Jacka have a race from Coffs Harbour PS on Vimeo.

 

Mrs Booth

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Virtual World Library Club is crazy!

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The library is the place to be on Thursdays with our virtual world club and iPads for use. Every computer was being used by students who were exploring and problem solving as they worked through the application. I am always amazed at how engaged the students are and this is their lunchtime…awesome! Maia you are a star as you are always there magically assisting anyone who needs help and I have never asked you to do this 🙂

I can see the potential of this program and what is great about Thursdays Library Club is that everyone can get a chance to use it.  It was also great to have Mrs Jacka visit from Southern Cross University in Lismore to see first hand what happens at our school and how we are using virtual world technology. She was the person that introduced me to virtual worlds and her daughters Cass and Gab have created a great blog called Adventures in Lisa Sim (the link is on our Blog Roll) which the students in 5M and anyone can use for building tips and questions.

Thanks Noah for reviewing the iPad Minecraft app and giving it a 7/10. I want to sit down with you next week so you can show me how it works and tell me how different it is from the PC version.

Here is a great video of Tyler who was creating a river system and island where he could build a house. This was only the second time he had used sim-on-a-stick. Way to go Tyler and excellent work!

Tyler explores sim-on-a-stick for the second time from Coffs Harbour PS on Vimeo.

Here is a video showing how engaged everyone is and you can see what a brilliant assistant Maia is 🙂

Virtual World Library Club from Coffs Harbour PS on Vimeo.

 

Mrs Booth

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Lets see what KM got up to on Thursday morning

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Lets see what KM got up to on Thursday morning… on PhotoPeach

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Our School: Mohamed, Wakjira and Miriam

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Three students in Class 5M made a video response to Molly’s video as they all came from Africa and and one lived in Molly’s area. Both Wakjira and Mohamed came from Nairobi, Kenya, and Miriam from Uganda. Their lives are different in Australia from Molly’s but they could also see the similarities. I think the students did a fantastic job to make this video (on their Cisco flip camera) and our school is extremely fortunate to have them as part of our community 🙂

Here is their video for Molly and her friends:

Our School: Mohamed, Wakjira and Miriam from Coffs Harbour PS on Vimeo.

It was also very exciting as on Tuesday March 6th the WFP and Cisco created a global event where Molly and her friends were answering questions from another group of children who go to an International School in Rome (they have an Australian teacher) and also some questions from around the world. Class 5M were very lucky as Molly answered one of their questions. Here is a recording of the event. It goes for 30 minutes.

How well do you know Molly? Take the quiz and by doing so you provide a meal to another child!

Mrs Booth

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For Molly: International Women’s Day March 8, 2012

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Thursday, March 8, was International Women’s Day and this was a day to celebrate the roles women play in our lives. How they nurture and provide for us and our families, and the amazing things they have done to make the world a better place. But still today women’s lives and choices can be restricted and they receive less money for doing many of the same jobs as men. Class 5M met a girl called Molly recently and have been following her through her video diaries as she shows the rest of the world her life in Nairobi, Kenya. Molly is being empowered through good food, with the assistance of the World Food Programme, education and being given the chance to have a voice with her flip camera provided by Cisco who, incidently, also made the flip camera that we used to film our video!

Here is the recent news report from CNN:

Here is the video the girls from 5M made for Molly on International Women’s Day 🙂
Hi Molly the girls in class 5M made this video for you and your friends and they talk about what it is like being a girl in Australia and who are the special women in their lives.

Many thanks to Ms Jacka who was a visitor to our school and helped film and ask questions 🙂

International Women’s Day March 8, 2012 from Coffs Harbour PS on Vimeo.

Mrs Booth

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