February 17, 2009
Connecting with Florida
Posted by teachingsagittarian under Classroom Happenings | Tags: aroundtheworldwith80schools, San Joe Episcopal School, Silvia Tolisano, skype |[18] Comments
Yesterday morning our skype rang at 8.00am sharp! It was Jacksonville, Florida calling – well the Tech Club from San Jose Episcopal Parish Day School in Jacksonville, Florida to be precise. We learnt that it was Sunday night for them – wow, they were at school on a SUNDAY just to connect with us!
This call was extra special because the teacher of the Tech Club is in fact the organiser of the whole AroundTheWorldwith80Schools project - Mrs Silvia Tolisano.
We used our same organisation chart that we’d used for skyping with Canada, but changed some of the speakers around. We like the reaction we get when Shania says the long name for Bangkok in THAI! It’s 168 letters long and is in the Guinness Book of Records. Our wonderful Instructional Assistant wrote it out for us so you could see the words – it’s not in sanskrit, the Thai alphabet, but in English alphabet form.
We asked the Tech Club our data question – How many nationalities in your class? How many in each nationality? As we are studying fractions and percentages we are going to use the information collected from all our skype connections and work out the percentages and fractions of Nationalities. Their tech club had Canada, Cuba, Columbia, the Phillipines, Argentina/Germany and of course the USA represented!
There were 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders represented too.
All to soon our 5 minutes were up – and the Tech Club was off around the world some more to speak with South Korea – they’d already spoken to Singapore and Australia – what an exciting night they must have had!
Room 202 students – add your thoughts in the comment area about our 2nd skype connection for the AroundTheWorldwith80Schools project – and of course anything that I’ve forgotten! – Ms H
February 17th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Skyping with Florida was very interesting, and the Tech Club had a lot of dedication for coming to school on a Sunday night!!! Also, I can’t imagine being able to remember the name of Bangkok in Thai-all 168 letters.
I’m incredibly happy as well because I got to speak in the Skype call: last time I wasn’t able to get to school at 6:50, I arrived in the middle of the call. Hopefully I’ll be able to take part in the next Skype call because they calls are so exciting and inspirational!!!
February 17th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Wow! I’ve read the post and you guys must have had an awesome time!! I wish I was there!
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February 17th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I don’t know why but i was more nervous this time. I think it was because we could see the room was full of 3-6th graders! I wonder how many of the other classes we skype with are going to be clubs instead of actual classes. And lastly does anyone remember their data question? I forgot it!
February 17th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
I really think that this skpe call did a lot better than our first because we new how to set out everything and when everybody says there lines. Our first skpe call was very meesy and we all kind of messed around not knowing what we were going to say.
I can’t wait until we have our next skpe call so we can do even better.
February 17th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
It was a great experience to meet the class and the teacher who started the skype discussion. But we did not follow the suggested format, instead we have exchanged our brief presentations and question and answer session. I look forward to the other class we are going to skype with.
February 17th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
That was really fun, and I was surprised to hear that the Day School was actually a regular school! looking at that rice crispy treat made me hungry!
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February 17th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I love skypes,Its fun because if you’re at your house you could talk with friends or family around the world and you could judge how difrent it is from where you live an where they live
February 17th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
It was very fun talking with Florida and they were prepared like us too. I had a lot of fun but it was kind of scary because we just knew it this morning and I just wanted to practice my line a bit more just to be sure. I felt a lot more comfortable the second time because it’s like I already practiced. Anyways, that was a lot of fun.
February 18th, 2009 at 6:53 am
I thought that the skype call was cool because we got to call a tech club and the people who made the contest!
February 18th, 2009 at 10:20 am
I thought skype call was very good Although I didn’t talk with them.It was good.Next We will skype with South Korea!.I’m from Korea
February 18th, 2009 at 10:24 am
I really enjoyed doing Skype with them. I get more thrilled everytime we do Skype. I’m really looking forward to doing with South Korea!
February 18th, 2009 at 10:24 am
I thought it was realy cool how we can skype with other classes, around the world. I thought it was cool because we got to learn about their school, what they do. But I thought it was kind of odd that they had school on sunday.It probably was a sunday school. It was monday here, but it is the time difference.
February 18th, 2009 at 10:27 am
I think that skype call with Florida was good for our class because at the skype call they told us all the things of there class like how much nationality in there class and some more things of there school.
February 18th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Skype with the other countries were cool but every time we skype it seems to me that we are always the one that’s very organized and not them
February 18th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Skype is fun. I learn about Florida and english.
February 18th, 2009 at 10:39 am
I have connected with Florida. I am so nervous but I am curious about that. when I finish connecting I thought I learn more English!!
February 18th, 2009 at 10:41 am
I learned about the school that I skyped with. I thought that it was a lot of fun skyping with them and I am looking forward to the next skype especially because it is at night time. But this time I hope to say the beginning sa-wat-dii-ka.
February 19th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Hi my name is Destorm Power a singer/songwriter/producer from Brooklyn, NY. I am making a music video project for a song called “I Am The World”. It’s an inspirational song about the coming together of ppl around the world and changing the planet. I would love to include your classroom in the project via Skype. All I would need them to do is either sing along with the title song saying “I Am The World”, or even better make signs saying “I Am The world”. This is gonna be a really fun project as I plan to include ppl from all over the globe in the production. thanx my email address is destormmusic@gmail.com If you can help with this project, I can send you a link to hear the title song and and we can discuss a time where the students can record a video holding the I am the world signs.