Students are well on the way to completing their first special online presentation for this site. They have organised themselves into groups of between 2 and 5 students. They have decided on a feature of Melville Intermediate that they want to promote or explain to their audience. Students completed a brainstorm of ideas first on Wednesday, reworked and edited the material Thursday and started drafting their scripts for the written component of the posts on Friday.This approach has already paid dividends for our group working on the Environmental Worm Farm at Melville Intermediate as on Friday afternoon Mrs Bleakin (Deputy Principal) had to move the worms from the 2008 worm farm to the new accommodation. We already had a group of students ready to go to produce online material related to the shift! The photographs from this were a great element of 'opportunity' and one the students involved grabbed with both hands! Look for the photographs tomorrow!
The Junior Crew love worms and all kinds of bug and insects. Looking forward to seeing the photo's. We will be very interested in finding out which other features of the school the students are going to show us. The things that we take for granted are often the things that are most interesting to people in other countries.
ReplyDeleteThe Junior Crew are going to love these photo's. They'll be begging me for a worm farm of our own!
ReplyDeleteThe bath worm bin seems to be working well. The students here liked the layout of your blog. I will watch for your presentation about their move. If you are recording voices my tip is to use a script. http://education-realitycheck.blogspot.com/2008/11/cognitive-rehearsal.html
ReplyDelete@ Sue we should have the slider of the Worm show completed this morning. If bubbleshare is working it should be up soon.
ReplyDelete@ Dave Winter - thanks for your comment yes we are using scripts but thanks for the link we'll check it out, anything that helps is always a positive.
Hi, I think it is wonderful that you have a worm farm. We have one at our school and the children just love feeding it. It makes a big difference not having smelly food in the school anymore and our edible garden loves the manure the worms make. Keep up the great work and I love seeing children recycling.It looks like you have a garden in the background. Enjoy your greens.
ReplyDeleteHi, Love your worm farm and it is great to see children recycling. We have one and the worms make great manure for our gardens. The liquid that comes out the bottom of our worm farm goes into our vege gardens and the veges are used in our childrens lunches. Better than bought lunches and healthier. Keep up the great work guys and look forward to seeing more on your site.
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