Melville Intermediate - Photostory Tour

This is Lana's Photostory of the School. We are attempting to extend our students by increasing their use and familiarity and web 2.0 tools. Photostory is a simple way to achieve this. For this term we are establishing and maintaining relationships. The idea being that you will view this Photostory of our School and make comparisons with your own school or location.

Melville Intermediate - School Tour

This is a photostory tour of our school. Created by Bradley from Room 8. One of our objectives this term is relating to others. The idea behind this photostory is that you can compare it to your school and look for the similarities and the differences. Bradley took the photographs himself and created the entire project by using Photostory. Next time we are going to add to this work by putting a commentary on as well.

Melville Intermediate - Week Six Tasks.

As part of the International Blogging Challenge we have a number of tasks this week. Firstly if you have not created your Avatar for task number two you need to do so, don't forget to save this into your folder, it will come in useful! (there are some examples with this post. Secondly as part of the challenge we have to visit the two classes adjacent to us on the blog roll of classes in the challenge. These are Miss T Classroom and Mr Millers Blog. Make sure you go to both these places and leave comments. Thirdly your final task for the week is to select another site from the challenge and leave a comment!

Also this morning in class we spoke to, Mr Millers classroom in California we will be talking with them again later this week and you will have an opportunity to ask them your questions, as preparation for this please visit their class page and leave a comment on one of the wonderful sites that are attached.

By Friday you need to ensure your Avatar is selected and saved in the special folder and we will be using Animoto to animate all of them. If you are not sure about completing any of these challenges please check with Mr Webb.

Melville Intermediate - A Year of Mould!

It's finally ended, due to us being able to stand the smell any longer (and due to the fact that the plastic has started allowing the sandwiches to seep through) our great Mould Experiments lasted for 53 weeks! Leigh, an ex pupil of Room 8 was able to file this report yesterday assisted by Bjork from the class of 2010 who filmed the video!


Leigh wrote this about the experiment. "Hi my name is Leigh and I going to tell you about the sandwiches we made one year ago in February 2009. On the 26th of February we made an experiment with bread, margarine and bread, margarine, bread, marmite and jam. We mixed these together and left them in sealed plastic bags in the classroom. We left them there for an entire year and watched as they gradually became mouldy. "

Melville Intermediate - Trash to Fashion 2010

These are the highlights from the wearable arts Trash to Fashion show from the Waikato Museum on Sunday 6th March 2010. Samm from Room 8 wrote this recount about her participation in the show:

Melville Intermediate - Trash to Fashion 2010

Melville Intermediate - Maori Mihi from Russia

Melville Intermediate - Speaking Maori in Russia

Today I became aware of two very, very special videos.

As you know we have been busy completing our work on Maori Mihi and publishing them online. We've had some wonderful feedback and the students are very pleased by this but our friends from Lyudmila's Classroom in Kransnoyarskiykray Kray, Russia have been learning - they have posted two videos, based on our work in New Zealand - its really amazing to think that work that we have produced from one side of the world has had an influence on students on the other side of the world. This interaction is hugely important for everyone involved and when the students view this video Monday morning I am sure that they will be completely blown away. This is Nikita's video!

Melville Intermediate - Mihi Instructional Video

In this video, presented by Anahere from Room 8, you will learn all the main parts of a Mihi. Anahere says each phrase in Maori, then explain it in English, the words are on screen while you are watching, with the idea being you can say them as you see them up on the screen. Filmed at Melville Intermediate School by Lana on March 4th 2010.

Melville Intermediate - Isaac's Moon Observation Tool

Currently we have students that are involved in observing the Moon for the Worldwide Moon Project. One of these students is Isaac from Room 13 he and his Dad have constructed a device that allows him to accurately record the angle that the Moon is at! We made a quick video to demonstrate it!

Melville Intermediate - Connex Roller Coaster

These students have spent two weeks during their lunchtime constructing a Roller Coaster following the Connex system, they have just completed it yesterday and we were able to film this video of it. Special thanks to a former Room 8 student Arahia for assuming filming duties, just like the old days of 2009!

Melville Intermediate - Tour of Confidence Course

This is the tour of our School confidence course. Filmed by Stafford, directed by Chase and presented by Otis. Filmed at Melville Intermeidate School, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand on 2nd March 2010.

Melville Intermediate - Student Blogging Challenge

This year our students are very excited to be involved in the 2010 student blogging challenge. The first challenge has just been posted and we'll be featuring this wonderful learning opportunity in full later today. In the meantime you can click on the link for it here.

Or you can click on the link to our left. There's a list of the entrants for the challenge as well which has a huge amount of classroom and individual blogs to view!

Melville Intermediate - Maori Mihi Examples from Room 8

• This is the Maori Mihi from Room Eight students. A Mihi is a Maori introduction or greeting, which contains information about yourself. In this video you are looking for the following key phrases:
  ko te Maunga (the name of the mountain closet to where you were born)
  
  ko te Awa (the name of the river closest to where you were born)
  ko te Iwi (the name of your tribe/Iwi)
  ko te Marae (the name of your local marae/meeting place)
  ko te Kura (the name of your school)
  ko te Tumuaki (the name of your principal)
  ko te Kaiako (the name of your teacher)
  ko te Taku Ingoa (your name)
  
  

Students from Room Eight and Melville Intermediate School are available to help with your Mihi learning. If you would like to contact us, we are able to Skype with your classroom or learning institute to tutor you in the presentation and pronunciation of Maori Language and in particular Maori Mihi. You can leave a comment here on this post or email our teacher at myles.webb@gmail.com. This includes in 2011

Melville Intermediate - Maori Mihi

• This is the Maori Mihi from Room Eight students. A Mihi is a Maori introduction or greeting, which contains information about yourself. In this video you are looking for the following key phrases:
  ko te Maunga (the name of the mountain closet to where you were born)
  ko te Awa (the name of the river closest to where you were born)
  ko te Iwi (the name of your tribe/Iwi)
  ko te Marae (the name of your local marae/meeting place)
  ko te Kura (the name of your school)
  ko te Tumuaki (the name of your principal)
  ko te Kaiako (the name of your teacher)
  ko te Taku Ingoa (your name)

Since 2010 when the above video was published we've continued reviewing our work and currently this explanation of a Mihi and example of Mihi was produced by Hayze in 2011

Hayze Mihi 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.