Engaging online with our Younger Students
I had a lovely time on Friday talking to students from Uruti School in a Taster Class. It made me think, again, that we need to provide more online learning opportunities for our younger students. Our current programmes of learning, weekly classes in languages & other curricula...Tags: vln_primary, projects, online learning, juniors
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Rosmini School connects to share Health messages
Children at Matapu school enjoy their first session connecting with Mangatawhiri and Rosmini Schools. Today was an opportunity to test the connections and audio and to introduce the students to each other. Rosmini Year 12 health students will be leading this programme, with different students p...Tags: vln_primary, rosmini college, projects, health, elearning, matapu, mangatawhiri, key competencies
Using Google Docs to Create Digital Kits for Student Projects
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Tuakana/Teina - Virtual Role Models
This is a great story in the VPLD ning from Krishna about the value of their virtual connections with Rosmini College, Over the Back Fence Project. What are you waiting for start connecting with others and break down those classroom walls!Tags: overthebackfence, otbf, rosmini college, tuakana, teina, mentors, virtual learning, collaborations, projects
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Kick the Can - Over the Back Fence Update
Thanks to Geoff Woods from Rosmini College for his update on the activities of the Over the Back Fence Project. Twelve of the fourteen schools that indicated their involvement in OtBF this year are now on line. We are also working with another 6 sites on related projects. We figure that we...Tags: Rosmini College, Geoff Woods, OTBF, Kick the can, collaboration, projects, skype in the classroom, video conferencing, online learning, skype, health, environment
Collaborative Project - Transport - Expressions of Interest
Rosmini College invites Year 7 classes to join their Transportation Safety Project (2013 edition).The students gather and work together in one of twenty-two groups (see list below) to examine Transportation Safety issues. Each group works within a wikispace to develop the group's project. A templ...Tags: Rosmini College, Geoff Wood, collaboration, projects, skype in the classroom, video conferencing, online learning, skype, health, safety
Virtual Intermediate Class - Wellington Camp 2013
Check it out on Storify - unfortunately not embedding here so click on the pic! [<a href="//storify.com/VLNPrimary/vln-primary-wellington-2013" target="_blank">View the story "VLN Primary Wellington 2013" on Storify</a>]Tags: vlnprimary, camp, f2f, projects, collaboration, elearning, blended learning, Wellington
June Update VLN Primary School - Share, Celebrate, Participate!
In this newsletter we update you with a great story of online meets face to face at Orewa Estuary Arts Centre, share the excitement about the VLN Primary School supporting Asian Languages learning in NZ, make a call for enrolments for Second semester online programmes & projects, introduce tw...Tags: newsletter, vlnprimary, learning languages, photography, collaborate, projects, online learning, eteachers