Access the China Alive Hong Kong photos for our collaborative project:
Videos are also available in the “China Alive Videos” folder.
CLICK HERE TO SEE EVERYONE’S RESPONSES
Let’s unpack the experience we had on our China Alive trips by working through an interactive brainstorm and sort of adjectives that describe your time in Yangshuo, Hong Kong, or Hainan. You may use your dictionary/thesaurus for this activity. Once the group has created a list of words, negotiate as a group how the words can be sorted into categories, levels, or another sorting method, and graphically rearrange the words to reflect your formula.
Let’s unpack the experience we had on our China Alive trips by working through an interactive brainstorm and sort of adjectives that describe your time in Yangshuo, Hong Kong, or Hainan. You may use your dictionary/thesaurus for this activity. Once the group has created a list of words, negotiate as a group how the words can be sorted into categories, levels, or another sorting method, and graphically rearrange the words to reflect your formula.
I’m extremely excited to share our latest video production plan for “Fiddler on the Roof” with you. Over the past few days we’ve acquired new Sony HD cameras, plus an additional camera crew member. This promises to be our biggest and best video production of an SAS musical ever! We now have a camera crew of six, plus two cameras that will shoot stationary footage – one from the front of the curtain on stage right, plus another to cover the “master shot” at the rear of the auditorium. We have also been working with our spectacular master audio engineer, Amox, to drive new lines of audio into the submix that I’ll be working on in the control room via Apple’s Logic Pro software while the camera crew are shooting the footage. All in all, we have 8 cameras plus a dedicated audio mix that will then be imported into Final Cut Pro X in a multicamera session so that we can create some spectacular memories for the cast and crew of “Fiddler on the Roof”. We have the opportunity to create the biggest and the best HD video of an SAS musical event ever. Let’s do it together!
If you’re attending the China Alive Hong Kong trip this year, then please download the packing list and start sorting through items that you already have, and items that you may need to get. Most of these items are readily available at Decathlon stores around Shanghai.
China Alive HK Packing List (download PDF).
We’re looking forward to having a great trip with you this year!
Mr. Chambers, Mr. Claassen & Mrs. Thornbury.
What/who is DigiClub?
Help us define the mission and goal of DigiClub today on our Padlet wall.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE “WHAT’S DIGICLUB?” WALL
Next, add yourself to the “Who’s Who in DigiClub” wall. Think carefully about how you want to describe yourself so that we can really try to get to know you!
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE “WHO’S WHO?” WALL
Focus on Strategies
Today we’re going to use Padlet to brainstorm strategies that are used by successful language learners. You can double-click on the wall to start a new sticky, and you can attach documents or pictures if you can think of another way to explain how the strategy works. You can even take a picture with your iSight camera if you’d like to visually demonstrate your idea.
Lifehacker!
Today in Homebase we’re going to try something a little different. I’d like all of you to go to Lifehacker.com and take a look through the various categories such as Health, Procrastination, Creativity…and all of the technology tips and pointers that are on offer at the site.
After you’ve got a feel for the site and what it has to offer, it’s time for you to identify something that you’re interested in, and that helps you look at a problem/situation that you might have encountered in a new way. Identify an article that you’re interested in, summarize some of the key learning that you found in the article, and then share it with our group via this Google form below…
What’s your reward for doing this? Well, aside from the fact that you’ll hopefully have some new information or techniques to apply for an area of your life that you can identify with, you’ll also get to see what everyone else in our class discovered when you submit the form! So let’s hack or Homebase and give it a knowledge upgrade!
Dear Parents,
Currently the entire middle school is at the tail-end of special two-week interdisciplinary units. The 8th grade unit, “The World is Made of Stories”, is focused on gaining a broader understanding of the city in which we live and the stories found there. To accomplish this, students gathered in groups and visited different parts of Shanghai to interview the locals. After the interviews, groups decided how they wanted to tell others about one of the stories they heard. Students are using technology, art, math, science, and both English and Chinese language skills to retell these stories. The final products will be displayed in a gallery walk this Thursday, 28 February between 1:00 and 2:15 in the 8th grade hallway. We invite you to come and see what the students have created.
Thanks for your support,
The Grade 8 Team,
Infinite Possibilities
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