http://enjoyingcultures.edublogs.org This protal allows pupils involved in our eTwinning project 'Enjoying Cultures' to exchange information about the local culture they live in. Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:32:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. www.web2class.eu http://enjoyingcultures.edublogs.org/2009/04/13/web2class-experienced-by-stephen-reid/ 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 ... http://enjoyingcultures.edublogs.org/2009/02/04/web2class-experiences/ 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 ... http://enjoyingcultures.edublogs.org/2008/04/18/the-culture-of-sri-lanka-is-overpowering/ High Schools New Face (Tues) From: snbeach, 8 months ago | View | Upload your own This presentation was part of a 14 hour workshop in Western NY ... http://enjoyingcultures.edublogs.org/2008/03/24/21st-century-teacherhave-a-look-at-the-slide-show/ 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' ... http://enjoyingcultures.edublogs.org/2008/02/29/kgs-comenius-project-0809-0910-web2class/ 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 ... http://enjoyingcultures.edublogs.org/2007/12/06/international-visitors-to-kgs-the-learning-school-group/ 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. http://enjoyingcultures.edublogs.org/2007/11/13/future-energy-issues-blog/ Get a Voki now! http://enjoyingcultures.edublogs.org/2007/11/10/voki-talkits-a-great-way-to-talk-to-your-friends/ 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.... blog.eun.org/musica  The second wonderful blog is from Vincent Mespoulet from France. His ... http://enjoyingcultures.edublogs.org/2007/11/02/two-new-wonderful-blogs-from-schools-across-europe/ 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 ... http://enjoyingcultures.edublogs.org/2007/09/04/moena-visit-september-07/