Collaborative Projects
Project Lemonade
We are the only New Zealand school involved in this collaborative project with the Lower Merion School District in Ardmore, PA, and classrooms around the globe. Inspired by the true story of Alex Scott, Project Lemonade was started to get kids to think about how they can make a difference in the world. When faced with her biggest challenge, Alex decided to start a lemonade stand to raise money for cancer research. Alex’s Lemonade Stand has drawn national attention, and has raised millions of dollars for pediatric cancer research. Watch Alex’s Inspiring Story….
Room18’s page on the ProjectLemonade wiki can be found here.
Sir Edmund Hilary VoiceThread
This VoiceThread is a tribute to Sir Edmund Hilary, an amazing, gracious, and humble New Zealander, who sadly, passed away in January of this year.
This VoiceThread has been made public and available to students around various New Zealand schools to add to. As it is the beginning of our new school year we will be discussing in class the qualities of good learners, qualities of greatness and qualities of awesome people. Sir Edmund Hilary is such an inspiring role model of those sorts of qualities.
If you would like to contribute to our Sir Edmund Hilary VoiceThread, just click this link to record your thoughts, or record straight from the voicethread above. You can click on any of the pages and record your message there.
2007
Life ‘Round Here
Our latest collaborative project runs from September 07 - October 07. We’re creating a movie each that shows what life is really like in New Zealand. The images used will be original photographs taken by ourselves and only 6 movies will be selected to go through to the official Life ‘Round Here website for judging by International Guest Judges. This is the second project that Mr Craft and his class in South Carolina, USA, have invited us to join this year.
Our working page for this project is here.
Salute to Seuss
We’re involved in the Online Project organised by Technospud Projects (Jen Wagner) called “Salute to Seuss” in the 50th Anniversary Celebrations.
Check out this exciting project and watch this space for more details on our contribution.
Podcasting with Victoria, Australia
Check out our podcasting project wiki with a small rural school in Victoria, Australia. We’re going to be learning how to podcast and vodcast a travelogue about Hawkes Bay.The Horizon Project
In May 2007, we will have the amazing opportunity to be part of the Sounding Board of this global joint project being carried out between five classes ranging from grades 10-12 at the International School Dhaka, Bangladesh, Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia, Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne, Australia, the Vienna International School in Vienna, Austria and the Shanghai American School in Shanghai, China to research, discuss, and envision the education and society of the future according to the six trends outlined in the Horizon Report 2007 Edition.
Our class has signed up to give feedback to assigned teams and our goal is to provide meaningful peer feedback to our assigned teams. Click here to read about our review process and the feedback as it is completed.Video Conferencing
We also had the opportunity to Video Conference with Huntsville, Alabama at 7.00am (our time) 2.30pm the day before (Alabama’s time). We’ve decided to create a wikispace together so that we can keep in contact with our new friends in Alabama. Keep checking back here to see the links when the wikispace has been created.
New 7 Wonders
Beginning in Term 2 is our newest wikispace, new7wonders. Our class will be joining with a Year 8 class in our school to explore the existing Seven Wonders of the World. Next we will be researching our choice for the new Seven Wonders of the World and producing a presentation to convince our classmates why ours should be included in the new 7 wonders.
ProjectFeelGood
Our awesome collaborative project, all about what makes us feel good, with the Middle School students of an International School in Malaysia. We are learning to use MovieMaker whilst our collaborative partners are using iMovie. Together we are building this wiki to teach each other about the programme we’re using in this project.
Comparing Our World
Eight students are collaborating with Mr Craft’s class in South Carolina, on our behalf. This wiki is building with comparisons between participating countries on such things as the economy, clothes, personal technology, freedoms, food, sports and Television. It’s still in it’s early stages but it’s growing! Go take a look.
