March 2010: Challenge 6

I hope you have all been visiting other class and student blogs over the last few weeks. If you haven’t, then please make sure you have visited some during the next week. We have lots of teachers visiting student blogs to leave comments over this month and I noticed an excellent conversation happening between Mrs…Continue…Continue Reading March 2010: Challenge 6

March 2010: Challenge 5

Creative commons, images and attribution What is this? If you didn’t take the photo, then someone else did. Some photographers get paid money for taking images to use in newspapers, so often online newspapers copyright their images. This means you would have to pay money or have the photographer’s permission to use that photo on…Continue…Continue Reading March 2010: Challenge 5

Enjoy your break?

I hope you have all enjoyed your break from the challenge. I know many schools in the northern hemisphere are on spring break while some schools in the southern hemisphere are on Easter break or term 1 holidays. So I thought, why not have a break from blogging? It will allow some students to catch…Continue…Continue Reading Enjoy your break?

March 2010: Challenge 4

One of the questions asked at the end of the September 2009 challenge was:  What topic would you like to write more posts about?  One of the most common answers was: Environment There are many different ways to look at this topic and across the world this week, there are many celebration days being held:…Continue…Continue Reading March 2010: Challenge 4

March 2010: Challenge 3

It’s a very small world we live in now. Only 220 years ago, it used to take a sailing ship about 4 or 5 months to sail from England to Australia with convicts on board.  It took me 24 hours to fly from Australia to Vancouver, Canada with a short stop in Hawaii for a…Continue…Continue Reading March 2010: Challenge 3