Go Giants!

When i was in San Francisco last year i met a remarkably generous man who introduced me to the world of The Giants and the thrills of World Series baseball. I was previously dismissive of baseball as a boring sport, but, like so many things, once you get to know what's going on it becomes fascinating!
The regular season is about to begin so ...Let's go Giants! Let's go Giants!

FEAR THE BEARD!

ThE AMaZinG mR TeeHaN's ClaSS

Read their blog to see what they learned about us and how we made an impact on the other side of the world. Let them know what it meant to you to be involved with them and what you learned about America; "The Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free"
- it certainly has been a pleasure :-)
Mr Teehan is an inspirational teacher and his class are very fortunate to have had him.

- one question - do the same kids come back to you after the holidays, Mr Teehan?

~An0nym0usb0b said...
"I very much enjoyed working with the kids from new zealand, so to keep in touch with them i made a blog. Please go tho http://anonymousbob.blogspot.com. please post, comment and give some ideas and tips to improve my blog and make it easier to talk with the kids in new zealand."

Howdy to Mr Teehan's class in New Jersey

These are Room5ians wishing you all a happy holiday - or something like that. I bet you can't understand them. Thanks for being our American friends this year.

Cheers Mr Teehan!

Famous sister of former Room5ian

Katy met Hillary [must be a good name for successful capable women] this weekend in the mighty USA. Katy is Jimmy's sister. We had the privilege of getting to know Jimmy in our class last year.
:-)
Room5ian sisters Rule!

Online pen pals from New Jersey

HI Room5ians, a teacher in New Jersey [do you know where that is?] has discovered our blog on the net and asked us if we would like to contact his class. He has created a blog for his class and ours and has asked three questions. He has invited you all to leave comments on their blog. See his message below:

"Hi,
I created a blog. It contains three questions. One is for your students to write about what they know about the USA. One is for my students to write about what they know about New Zealand. The third is for both to write about something interesting about their country. It's a start! I set the blog parameters to allow anyone to post, so your students should not have a problem. The blog is on my website. You can go through the school website as I stated in a previous e-mail or you can go directly to my site at: http://mysite.verizon.net/tteehan/index.htm

Let me know if you experience any problems. I will look again at your blog and see if my students can post anything there.

Tim Teehan"

So, Mr Teehan has been really proactive in using ICTs to help globalise his students. Will you respond intelligently? Please do - remember your good Kiwi manners, keep to the topic, use correct grammar, spelling, etc and see what you can learn and what you can share. If this is successful we will try to set up a skype session with his class too.
Enjoy!


Oh and here is our updated clustermap image:

The above map depicts: 9,382 visits from 12 Mar 2007 to 22 Feb 2008

And find New Jersey using Googlemaps:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.271144,-74.882812&spn=3.721646,6.569824&z=7

i hope you had a lovey xmas

i did.
and farewell to our lovely friend gentleman jim who leaves our shores [hopefully not forever] tomorrow.
we shall always remember jimmy - hopefully because he will stay in touch

cluster map fun!

Our clustrmap is getting quite exciting. We now have most of the continents represented. If only people would leave us messages so we could share learning and stories.

Room5ians - here is your task - list all the countries we have clustr map visits from.

I'll start...

NEW ZEALAND!