Merry Christmas! This week's SAS winter concerts from Tuesday and Wednesday have been uploaded to YouTube: check out the videos here. I didn't have a program for the strings performances, so those videos are not yet titled. If you'd like to help me title those videos (song name & composer), then please leave those details in a comment on the YouTube page. Enjoy.
10
Dec
8th Grade N.G.O. Day!
Today we enjoyed a spectacular display of knowledge-meets-action from all of our 8th grade N.G.O. groups!
This is a fantastic visual representation/model on the architecture of accomplished teaching that genuinely focuses on specific and timely needs for our students. I'll let it speak for itself. Download a large version at here at the source.
04
Dec
We Think
02
Dec
Greetings from Singapore
On Friday I arrived in Singapore for the Apple Distinguished Educators institute, and since then I've been enjoying meeting fascinating people with amazing ideas and skills for changing the ways that we learn in our classrooms. Working in mixed project groups on various tasks and challenges has been great, and we've managed to have fun even when difficulties have arisen.Spending time with people who love education and technology is always enjoyable. This picture is Julian from Apple, China blowing into the microphone of an iPhone and playing the 'ocarina'.
This afternoon some of the "Writing X" team decided that they needed to clarify a number of the vocabulary words that we're currently using in Humanities to describe the path of a plot map: conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Good job, people! It's great when we make an effort to link the words that we're using in school back to our native languages, as it increases both your understanding of the terminology... and it also helps other people to connect to your beloved first languages!
23
Nov
Heritage: iconographic
Here's another extension of what you can create for the Heritage unit: an icon of yourself that represents your family heritage and the journey that you're taking to understand different cultures and languages around you.
I placed China at the top of my culture icon, as it represents a culture that I have great respect for, and it's a place that I want to invest part of my future in. The rest of my icon graphic features my birth place, Papua New Guinea, my nationality, Australia, and then a number of countries that my descendants emerged from: England, Scotland, Germany, Belgium, Prussia, Wales, and Scotland.
23
Nov
Heritage: My Family Tree
This weekend I contacted relatives on both sides of my family so that I could collect data and evidence to construct my family tree, which is something we'll all be doing soon in Humanities as part of the Heritage unit. I found quite a lot of information at a website that my Aunty Audrey (on my dad's side) has been constructing: "They Came They Stayed", which documents how members of our family immigrated to Australia from various parts of the UK. Members of my mother's side of the family were also able to provide me with important evidence like obituaries, and photographs like our old family home in Belgium. Even just searching through all of these records was an incredible journey! I discovered that my family has roots in Australia, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Belgium, Germany and Prussia. In order to create a 'visual map' of all of the information I carefully followed the information, and I used 'shapes' and 'connectors' in PowerPoint to create my final family tree. I hope you're looking forward to this task. I was able to track some of my relatives all the way back to the 17th century! Download my example family tree here (PDF): Chambers Family Tree (right click and "save as")
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