Our+Stories

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Who Am I?
Each class created their own blogs. Students took photos and wrote blog posts exploring their passions.

2KM and 2KJ (Kathleen and Kelly's classes) teamed up with classes in the USA, Canada, Belize, New Zealand and Ghana to share their stories and learn about how others live. We used our blog [] as our central meeting place. For seven weeks, the students blogged, commented and conversed about a wide range of topics involving students' lives and stories. 30 posts and over 700 comments were published.



MFGC students made videos telling the story of a special person in their life. Each student paired up with a partner from another school and wrote a poem about their partner based on the information and photos on their blog. The BLPS students created eBools from the poems. The student's skyped each other and read their poems to their partners.
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Reflections
You can learn more about our project and our PLP experience by:
 * watching our voice thread
 * visiting our team blog
 * reading through our ARG challenges
 * accessing our Ultranet Space

Kathleen and Kelly have reflected on Our World, Our Stories on Kathleen's blog here. The two biggest highlights were the students receiving comments from author Mem Fox and illustrator Leslie Staub and winning a [|Edublog Award] as the best group blog in the world! The students also became excited about learning, made friends around the world and developed a tolerance and understanding of others.

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Team Members
1. Carolyn Coles - Mildura South Primary School 2. Jo Thompson - Mildura South Primary School 3. Kathleen Morris - Leopold Primary School 4. Kelly Jordan- Leopold Primary School 5. Rick Kayler-Thomson - Bellaire Primary School 6. Simon Collier - Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College 7, Lois Smethurst - Berwick Lodge Primary school 8. Traceye Rapinett - Berwick Lodge Primary School 9. Bronwyn McLeod - Oatlands Primary School 10. Michele Tan - Berwick Lodge Primary School