Messages 4U!

Hi class!

Students from the other schools in our "My Hero Learning Circle" have sent you the following messages (NB: messages are published here unedited, exactly as the students wrote them):

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To Argentina:
This is Arianna again,
We live close to the beach but we don't go all the time maybe about ten times in a year!!!
I love animals in fact I am vegetarian by being a vegetarian it helps stop global warming!!! Always excited to hear from all of you,

Arianna

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A student from Slovenia, Diana, is answering the questions from Argentina:
About Slovenia
Slovenia is a wonderful place to visit,the capital and the largest city is Ljubljana.We have a lot of artistic things.So come to visit my country to ask me more.
Questions for the friends in Argentina:
1.What is the capital of Argentina ?
2.Argentina is known as a football country what are your country chanches on upcoming world cup?
3.How much people does live in Argentina?
4.What can you do in Argentina at summer?
Diana

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Kristian is explaining what burek is:

BUREK is a type of baked or fried filled pastry, originally made in Turkey, made of a thin flaky dough known as Yukfa and can be filled either with cheese, minced meat, or vegetables.

Best wishes from Slovenia.

Kristian

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There are also some messages in our project site (from the girls in Russia, I think). Please check the "My hero" blog comments there, and the message board at the bottom of the screen!

OK, class! Your turn to write back then! Enter your messages as comments to this entry, and I'll email them on your behalf (Remember to sign with your first name, and to clearly indicate what school they are for).
DEADLINE (to get credits for submission, you can of course go on interacting with these students afterwards if you like): November 23rd, 2009 - 12:00 pm BA time (that's midday!).
Love,
Gladys

3 Great Plays of Shakespeare: at the computer lab!

Morning 3rd-year class!

In today's lesson, we have worked with the CD-ROM that comes with 3 Great Plays of Shakespeare (follow the link to learn more about the book). Your job now is to evaluate today's activities by answering a short survey. Click here to take the survey.

That's all for today.
See you next class!

Gladys

My Hero: 1st lesson at the computer lab

Hi class!

Surprise! Today we're having our lesson at the school computer lab. I'm confident you'll make very good use of the opportunity to start interacting with our partners in the "My Hero" project.

These are the tasks you should try during our lesson:

1. Check recent entries in this class blog labelled "My Hero". If there are any tasks you haven't carried out yet, start there!
2. Visit our project site. Use the column on the right and follow the links to the different school pages shared. If it's possible, leave a comment for the class in each case. When commenting features are not available, leave a comment under this blog entry. In your comments, you may:

• comment on any coincidences you've found between them and our class
• give them feedback on what they've shared
• ask questions you'd like them to answer
• please avoid "empty comments" such as "Cool video!" or "Nice to meet you. Please visit our project site". Remember the idea is to show you're real, caring, human beings! ;-)
• Some reminders: no full names (just first names or nicknames), no links to personal sites, no personal info (e.g. your email address or MSN nickname). For the next hour or so the cyberspace is your classroom, and everything you do there is an educational activity!
  

3. Go to IEARN project forum for high school students (log in with the username and password you've been assigned). Introduce yourself and then introduce your hero within the right discussion. If you find messages by other classes, please reply to at least two of them.
4. 10 minutes before the class finishes, come back to this blog entry and leave a comment summing up what you've achieved and any problems you might have had.

Of course, if you face any problems or have doubts, you can always ask me!

Happy surfing!
Gladys

My Hero: getting to know our partners

(click on the image to see it in full size and be able to read the information included)

Thanks to Juanma, we can now all see where our partners are working from. The names are those of the teachers leading each class... Behind each teacher, several teens eager to discuss who a hero is...

Isn't it incredible to have the chance to exchange opinions with so many people from such varied places? Maybe you think it rather silly, but let me tell you I'm quite excited by the possibilities!!!

By the way, schools have been preparing some "welcome online packages" so that others can get to know them. We will be using this blog to show our ideas and products. Below, you can find the links to the different packages already shared:

Teacher David, at Bloor C.I. (in Toronto, Canada): http://bloormyhero2009.pbworks.com/FrontPage#
Teacher Anne, at Muir School (in California, USA): http://johnmuirschoolsandiego.synthasite.com/
Teachers Helena and Tanja, at SUAS (in Slovenia) : http://sites.google.com/site/suasmyhero

And here you can find the results of collaboration in our class to produce our own "virtual welcome pack":

http://www.pageflakes.com/gladysbaya/28116171

Thanks to Ana, Martin, Nicolás and Débora for their collaboration to get all this together (Rodrigo has promised to submit his contribution soon, keep your fingers crossed!). Also, special thanks to our school head and project tutor for helping us get all this online!!!

Suggestions for improvement are welcome!
Gladys