Room202′s Blog

On 24/3/09 at 8:05 a.m. Bangkok time we connected with Appleby School in Nelson, New Zealand as part of the Aroundtheworldwith80schools Skype Project by Mrs Tolisano.  It was 2:05 p.m. over there. They are 9,619.17 kilometers away from ISB.  Nelson is up the top of the South Island of New Zealand.  Our teacher Ms H. [...]

On March 19th, 2009 at 10:52am Room202 skyped with Spring Gully Primary School in Bendigo, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. This part of Australia is four hours ahead of us, so it was 2:52pm for them. We had technical difficulties in the beginning, and we had to call three times before we could hear Spring Gully Primary [...]

Connection #9 in the AroundTheWorldwith80schools project using skype was with Grade 5 students on March, 18th 2009. We skyped with Tokyo International School at 10:00am here in Bangkok, and in Tokyo it is two hours ahead so it was 12:00pm there. We were surprised how many nationalities there were in their class.  6 Japanese, 1 [...]

Tonight 9 students from Room 202 came back to school (yes, that’s right – came back to school) at 6.45pm to get ready to make connection #8 in our Aroundtheworldwith80schools skype project. At 7pm, March 4, 2009 Bangkok, Thailand connected 14 530.08 kilometres away with Benton City, Benton, Tennessee USA, their time 7am, March 4, [...]

Our last skype connection for the week was with 6th Graders from Berwick Lodge Primary School in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.  Australia is 3 hours ahead of us so it was 9.15am our time, 12.15pm their time on Friday 27 February 2009. We thought that the Australian accent was really strong and we were surprised to [...]

Continuing our day with connections around the world, we went onto connect with my good friend Mr Brian Crosby and some of his 6th Graders from Agnes Risley School. It was 6.15pm their time Wednesday 25th February (they were at a showcase event for technology and showing off skype to people) 9.15am our time, Thursday, [...]

Thursday 26 February was a busy connection day for us.  At 7.45am in Bangkok, Thailand and 7.45pm Wednesday 25 February in Newton, MA, we logged into a virtual classroom to chat with #5 in our quest to connect aroundtheworldwith80schools.  Although it wasn’t a skype call, we connected with each other and shared information about our [...]

This morning we were fortunate enough to skype and connect with Busan Foreign School in Busan, South Korea as part of the AroundTheWorldwith80Schools skype project.  We connected just after our morning recess – can you tell it was pretty hot outside this morning?  This was especially exciting for three students in our class as they [...]

With skype – anything is possible.  Even working around awful timezone differences! Thanks to the skype conference call facility, five Room 202 students:  Shania, Ink, Alexa, Hollie, Joe and their teacher Ms H, were able to skype into the technology class of Ms Gina Graziani at Anderson Elementary School, Wilmington, North Carolina. It was 8.15pm, [...]

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 [...]