Small World

Appreciate what you have... watch this video to see why. It's about imagining the population of the planet as being only 100 people and showing the proportions of ethnicity, wealth, etc. as they are today.

You will need flash and broadband... [approximately only 3% of the world's population can achieve that]

Miniature Earth

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