Stephen Reid represented Kirkwall Grammar School at the latest of our Comenius workshop meetings in Budapest this Easter.
Click the link below to view slide show showing the beauty of Budapest.
http://web2class.ning.com/video/beauty-of-budapest
For further information on Kirkwall Grammar Schools Web2Class Comenius project, go to the following website.
Greeting from Orkney………. This is just a quick hello to tell you about latest extravaganzas experienced recently in our Web2class Comenius project.
Thessaloniki…….What an experience!
My colleague Fraser and I along with our pupils Matthew, Scott had a great time and received a tremendous welcome and consideration from our Greek hosts.
All our 8 other schools were present ,and like KGS, the schools brought student with them. Although most of the other students were older that Matthew and Scott, the boys, once they gained their confidence began to enjoy working with and talking to the students from Greece, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Denmark and Hungary.
Our trip consisted of development planning, Web 2.0 tools workshops, interactive workshops presented by Aquatera from Stromness re our Climate Change project, site seeing and veritable feast’s of everlasting Greek meals, music and dancing.
It’s a hard life!
Hi all…
Just thought I would share with you some of the pictures I took while I was in Sri Lanka for my Easter hols.
20 million people live on the island..a bit more than that of Orkney!!!!
Unfortunately it was as if 20 million people were all on the same road I was being driven along……man it was frightening!! The only road code is survival.
However I will show you the best side of Sri Lanka.
80 % of the population are Buddhist’s
Just 3 of the hundreds of Buhhda’s I saw ………..
The beaches..so beautiful, but unfortunately the ocean
was to dangerous to swim in.
The Elephant Orphanage near Kandy……they are so cute and powerful!
The ‘jewel in the crown’….The botanical gardens in Kandy.
As for the Orchids…………
The Tsunami….
The local people think at least 30,000 people lost their lives as a result of the Tsunami. The locals did not realise what was happening when the sea suddenly receded back a couple of miles. Instinctively people went out onto the sand and started collecting all the very valuable fish that were left stranded. As result, when the wave came rushing back , these poor people stood no chance and were all drowned.
Tsunami monuments.
Depicted in a new Buddhist temple.
The wreckage from the train that was swept away.
From: snbeach, 8 months ago
This presentation was part of a 14 hour workshop in Western NY
KGS have just applied to take part in the proposed Web2class project that sees KGS working with 7 other countries across Europe.
Germany (2), Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Hungary and Solvakia.
Pupils will be investigating two topics over two years. In year one, pupils will be studying the effects of ‘climate change’ and in the second year, the effects of ‘immigration’ and the ‘mobility of workforces’ across Europe.
Pupils will be assisted in the use of Web tools, that are free to use on the internet to-day, in order to allow pupils to work in real time collabaration with fellow pupils across Europe. These tools are known as Web 2.0 tools and are driving the progression from e-learning to c-learning (communication learning between peers) in recent times.
Go to http://web2class.edublogs.org to view the progress diary of this exciting project.
International Student Research Project 2007 – 2008.
The Learning School project(LS9) is one school self-evaluation model, which in line with current social developments have seen young people become more active and participative in contributing to debate about matters which affect them and engages students as the evaluators of learning. School self evaluation readdresses outdated democratic imbalances in evaluation, encourages students to be participative and active contributors to learning evaluation and to be more responsible learners. This year’s research project for LS9 is investigating ‘A Curriculum for Living and Learning in the 21st Century’. From this we have chosen to focus on developing ‘A Global Campus’ as an example of a curriculum for the 21st
Century could be. It aims to be created, developed and shaped, over the course of the year, through meeting the students’ visions of learning for the future. By the end of the research year (June 2008) it is intended there will be a visual presentation of what ‘A Global Campus’ is according to students across the world. It will incorporate what students of today feel young people of the future should study, how they should study, where they should study and with whom they would learn.
LS9 will have the completed visual presentation on offer to schools may they wish to use the research to supplement their own investigations on a curriculum of the 21st Century and what the future of living and learning may be for students.
Topic: The Learning school concept
The project has a uniquely international dimension, as the members which make up the research group represent the schools of an international partnership of schools known as the Global Classroom. Those nominated to become Learning School participants are typically either current or recent high school students. Over the course of ten months, the group conducts research into learning issues in each partnership school - taking them to a diverse range of countries and social, cultural and economic situations. This translates to a rich social, cultural, personal and academic learning experience for group members in particular, but also for students in participant schools, host families, wider communities and experts.
Learning School group researchers
Javier Vazquez, 26 Karin Rylander, 19
Madrid, Spain Ånge, Sweden
Jade de Klerk, 17, Desiree Risberg, 19
Cape Town, SA Ånge, Sweden
Marcus Nicolson, 17 Maya Whittall, 22
Shetland Isles,UK Shetland Isles,UK
Stepan Pekarek, 17
Zlin, Czech Republic
Visiting the following Schools…
Bobergsgymnasiet, Sweden
Anderson
High School,
Shetland Islands
Kirkwall
Grammar School,
Orkney Islands
Gymnazium Zlin, Czech republicGraf
Friedrich Schule, Germany
West Windsor High School, USA
Lake Ginninderra College, Australia
South Pennisula High School, South Africa
email: lwe.asrcnhinogoslocfhaomobl9ti@ognm.oargil.com
This is a screen dump from a new blog created to encourage staff and students across Europe to become involved in issues surrounding the problems of energy today and tomorrow.
click on the image above to see more detail.
The first blog is simply called ‘Musica’ and has been created by Maria Rosa Mazzola from Italy. It is beautifully designed and full of items of music to suit all tastes.
click on following link to go to blog pages….
The second wonderful blog is from Vincent Mespoulet from France. His blog is called ‘Carolling across Europe’ and is part of his ‘School without walls’ series.
click on following link to go to the bog pages…
I hope you enjoy looking at these wonderful blogs.
A party of 29 pupils and staff from Moena, north east Italy, arrived in Orkney to spend 6 days staying with pupils of Kirkwall Grammar School.
The week will consist of a series of activities involving partner pupils from KGS and Moena, not only sitting in on classes, but also enjoying local excursions such visiting several of the Neolithic sites, the magical island of Hoy and of course the Italian Chapel .
Some links to pics…..
Standing Stone Building new partners
Skaill Bay Lunch in the garden at Skaill House
