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Instructions for May task - the last task this year

Dear, Voices of the World Sorry for being so late with our instructions for the last task. We've been discussing what to do, and here is what we came up with: We will celebrate ourselves, with our 2 year of anniversary/birthday: Use MyPlick (we don't want to give you extra work with a new tool) Make three photos/illustration for birthday, real cakes would be really nice;-)) Here are the words we all are suppose to say in our native language: First you make your first slide with your school… Continue

Added by Eva Rekkedal on May 14, 2009 at 10:23am — 5 Comments

Tree Day

22 May 2009 .. many schools all over Europe will plant 1..2...3...103 trees Think about if your pupils would like to join this global event and make your registration here Continue

Added by Anna Karidi Pirounaki on May 13, 2009 at 3:46pm — No Comments

Instructions for April task: The Solar System

As 2009 is the Year of Astronomy, this month task is to do an activity concerning this. You create a video the way you like, and be as creative you can using various ‘objects, materials’ presenting and saying the 9 planets mixed up with your kids favorite music –or creating your own!- beginning from the closer to the Sun planet. (since 2006.. the planets are 8 + 1 dwarf planet) You are free to choose the way you make your video, and where to upload it (e.g. Google Video, Teacher Tube). Here… Continue

Added by Eva Rekkedal on March 31, 2009 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

Want to join the Earth Tour? Click on the link below

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Added by Eva Rekkedal on March 21, 2009 at 8:30am — 4 Comments

Ideas for April's task..

OSS – OUR SOLAR SYSTEM As far as 2009 is the Year of Astronomy I would like to suggest for this month task an activity concerning this.. We may create a video the way we like and be creative using various ‘objects, materials’ presenting and saying the 9 planets mixed up with our kids favorite music –or creating our own!- beginning from the closer to the Sun planet.. ( since 2006.. the planets are 8 + 1 dwarf planet) We are free to choose the way we have to make our video and where to… Continue

Added by Anna Karidi Pirounaki on March 20, 2009 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

Earth tour 2009

Dear Voices of the World! Anna from Greece with like you all to tell if you're going to participate on this campaign for our clima? "20.30 pm March 28th 2009 Greek school and Greek families are going to join this global event.. what about you? http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/ " When I re… Continue

Added by Eva Rekkedal on March 16, 2009 at 8:07am — 3 Comments

Updated instructions for the March task!

Hello Voices of the World! The task for March is to read in the names of all participating countries (and states for the partners in USA) - illustrate as you want, but nice if you tries to "catch the spirit" of the spesific country (e.g. for Greece; sunny, beaches, typical tourist target - at least for us up in the north - let the children draw something the associate with the different countries/states). Put your illustrations into PowerPoint (both versions 2003/2007 are ok to use, if… Continue

Added by Eva Rekkedal on March 9, 2009 at 7:30am — 25 Comments

VOTW @ WCPS 2008-2009

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Added by Lisa Stevens on October 30, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Mobile For What?

Tell me what you use your mobile for below:

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Added by Sharon Tonner on October 7, 2008 at 10:38pm — 3 Comments

May's Task

Well here we are at the last task until many of us break off for our summer holidays. The task is a little bit different but still on the idea of using our voices. Here it is and I hope you like it. You are allowed to use any of the tools we have used from the previous tasks that support pictures which means 'voki' is out. Choose the tool that you think was the easiest to you and gave the best results. Gather pictures of your school and location using a camera. We are going to say 'goodbye… Continue

Added by Sharon Tonner on May 6, 2008 at 8:48pm — 60 Comments

A Little Theory!

This grand title, Legitimate Peripheral Participation, sounds better placed in a law book than in education, however, the addition of, Situated Learning, to the title gives the game away. This… Continue

Added by Sharon Tonner on May 4, 2008 at 10:09pm — 4 Comments

Some Statistics About March's Task

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Added by Sharon Tonner on April 8, 2008 at 9:30pm — 5 Comments

April's Task

At last April's task is ready for you all to get your hands on. The theme this month is 'Colours' through the usual format of sound and images. Let's start with the sound and words. You can find these at the following link: http://www.nurseryrhymes4u.com/NURSERY_RHYMES/Page_473.html If you language is English all you need to do is teach the children the song then record. If your language is not can you please translate to your own language please? In the example I have below you will see th… Continue

Added by Sharon Tonner on April 7, 2008 at 8:30pm — 15 Comments

Latest Release - March's Task

March's task is now ready for you all to get your teeth into. What we need to make this month is a slideshow with pictures and sound on the theme - 'Days Of The Week'. To see what the product will look like you can view the one I made earlier with the children below:

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Added by Sharon Tonner on March 4, 2008 at 10:34pm — 16 Comments

SJV Gems Voicethread

It's nearly a month late, but finally we have our Voicethread for the January task! Although we only began our school year on January 30, we were determined to participate in the January task. Little did we know that we would be faced with quite a few challenges - the biggest being a school server on the brink of a meltdown! Identifying what makes us 'Australian' was challenging for 6 year olds. Nominating a 'sport' made for some lively discussion and the 'food'… Continue

Added by Amanda Marrinan on February 23, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Voices Of The World - European Award

Voices Of The World was given the eTwinning European Award/Label in January which now gives us the three awards you can get through the eTwinning organinsation. These awards/labels are in recognition of excellent work between schools around the world. Well done everyone as this could not have happened if we all did not work… Continue

Added by Sharon Tonner on February 22, 2008 at 7:25pm — 4 Comments

WCPS Voicethread

We've finished our Voicethread, a little behind schedule for technical reasons (like Voicethread not recording and the server crashing!) but, as the Spanish say 'Más vale tarde que nunca' - Better late than never!

And here it is. Thanks to Rebecca, Sarah and Millie for the voices and Elsie and Michael for the drawings.

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Added by Lisa Stevens on February 7, 2008 at 9:23pm — No Comments

2008 - A New Year and a New Class

2008 brings a new school year and a new class. The SJV Gems are now a Year 2 class ( 6 and 7yr olds) who are already online

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Added by Amanda Marrinan on February 3, 2008 at 10:31am — No Comments

February's Task

This month I asked what you would prefer, talking or singing. There was no winner so I decided to go with talking. There was some feedback and I am going with Eva's suggestion to do numbers which is nice and simple for all and is a great way to learn how to say a number in another language without having to bother with sentences.

Each month I like to use a different application so this month we are going to use Photostory 3 whi

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Added by Sharon Tonner on February 1, 2008 at 11:13pm — 39 Comments

January's Task

For all those eager teachers waiting for January's task - here it is. This month we are going to use VoiceThread to communicate. The theme is customs this month and thought long and hard as to how we can do this without the language becoming a barrier.

There are two parts to the task so follow the instructions carefully to ensure success.

1. Go to VoiceThread and create an account for you school. If you already have one that is fine feel free

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Added by Sharon Tonner on January 7, 2008 at 9:09pm — No Comments