Welcome

September 27, 2009 by Intrepidteacher

Hey guys!

As I am sure you have heard, due to Swine Flu, we will not be at school for at least a week. Since we know that you are dying to stay connected and continue with your school work, we have set up this blog as a way for all of us to continue our work of building communities, in “real” life, and now online.

This works out perfectly because we had planned to begin creating these online spaces for learning before these recent events, now we will work from necessity.

For the next few days, we will be posting lessons and ideas that we wish to share with you here on this blog Our hope is that you will check in at least once a day and leave comments so we know you have been here. This will be our way of taking the register.

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So there you have it! Please leave a comment below so we know you are here. If you have any questions feel free to leave them as well. If you still can’t figure it out, please email me: j.raisdana@cisdoha.org c.gould@cisdoha.org

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67 Responses to “Welcome”

on 27 Sep 2009 at 2:51 pm1 James

I am here! I have a question: Are we going to use the same website to pass information?or is this just a website to get us started?

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on 27 Sep 2009 at 3:28 pm2 edward

are we doing this as homework or just to stay in touch

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on 27 Sep 2009 at 3:38 pm3 Intrepidteacher

Two so far that is not bad! Let me clarify some things:

I will use this blog throughout the year to stay in touch, share resources, homework, and more. You all will eventually, once we get back in school, create your own blogs where you will store your writing, ideas, videos etc…

For now, I want to see how many students we can get connected here on a daily basis. We won’t necessarily be doing home work, but we will raise some discussion questions around readings, or photos, or videos etc…

If we get enough students connected, I hope to have daily meetings on chat rooms or video conferences etc…

For now get all your friends online and be ready to participate. You know you are bored and on the computer anyway, so let’s all be on together and see what we can learn.

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on 27 Sep 2009 at 3:41 pm4 Jamie

Hey. I am here. So is this a homework thing while we are not at school or what.

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on 27 Sep 2009 at 4:15 pm5 gijs

i’m here

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on 27 Sep 2009 at 4:16 pm6 gijs

where do we get your information. On this website or on our e-mail

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on 27 Sep 2009 at 4:36 pm7 Jordi

hi, jordi here.

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on 27 Sep 2009 at 6:23 pm8 Anna

Im here

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on 27 Sep 2009 at 8:29 pm9 James

So, how do we get our friends to partcipate?

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on 27 Sep 2009 at 8:32 pm10 Intrepidteacher

I am just waiting to get most of you on here, so I know there is a “class” out there paying attention. Then I will give assignments and ways to interact.

So what you can do is make sure as many people in school, come by here and sign in. There will be a new post tomorrow.

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 9:08 am11 jericho

hi i cant talk my hair is not done!
i am still a zombie
and i am not ready for the light!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 9:10 am12 Sarah

hi what’s up well i really don’t know what to write about so bye.

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 9:10 am13 vasco

hello I am here, I like the idea of keeping in touch.

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 9:23 am14 James

when’s the new post coming?

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 9:25 am15 Intrepidteacher

Great to see everyone here. Just be patient I am working on the next post as we speak. Stay tuned in the next hour or so. I am also looking into setting up a chat room soon, so check back in a few hours.

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 9:30 am16 James

ok sir, thank u. =)

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 10:18 am17 Larissa

That wasn’t to hard!
Will we get our homework on here or e-mail?

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 10:22 am18 James

hey u guys should check the school website. we have maths and science homework from mr bomsford and mr holmstrom.

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 11:18 am19 Travelling Teacher

Glad to see so many of you have joined us. School is very very quiet without you guys.

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 12:12 pm20 Sean

im here,
will we have to do work for any of the subjects while we are away?

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 12:12 pm21 gijs

why are teachers in school ’cause they can get swineflu as well

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 12:23 pm22 Sean

This is a message about the websight work, it says to click on a certain space to the year 7 maths on the primary maths page but it wasent working. Maby it was my computer or maby there is somthing wrong with that page on the websight

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 12:38 pm23 Intrepidteacher

@Gijs Tell me about it huh? We mis you guys though. A school is much better with students.

@Sean We will use this place as a way to connect each other around English topics. Not sure how much work will actually be turned in? Depends on how long we are away. In the meantime, just sign in everyday and follow the tasks I lay out.

Also Mr. H said that there was a problem with that link but it should be up by Tuesday.

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 12:44 pm24 Anna

It wasnt working for me either

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 6:56 pm25 Sean

@Mr.Raisdana

ok thank you for answering
PS should i check the other websight as well for information

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Intrepidteacher Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Yes you should keep checking the other site. This blog is really for English, History and Geography, the other site has info about other classes.

Also please send me your new Gmail address so I know how many people have finished. I noticed that you are a Fan on the Facebook page at that is great.

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 7:09 pm26 Sean

@Mr.R: can you paste any work on this websight?

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Intrepidteacher Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Not sure what you mean. I can post any work here because I am the author of this blog. As soon as we get back, you will all create your own blogs where you can post your work.

In the meantime we will take baby steps. Step one create a gmail account.

Ok?

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on 28 Sep 2009 at 8:55 pm27 Aliff Abang

I Come In Peace.

I Like the Idea of This Blog Because when i am gone i can see what u guys are up to.

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gijs Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 10:26 am
i come in peace too!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sean Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 11:18 am
when is our next chat seshion?

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 7:59 am28 Sean

@Mr.R: Ok i’ve creater a Gmail account but what i mean is can you make a new websight or blog that has some class work or prodjects that we can do so we are cought up when we get back 2 class.

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Intrepidteacher Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Baby steps Sean. I want to make sure we have as many students participating as possible and everyone is caught up. Soon you will have many tools and places to post your work.

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 9:13 am29 vasco

why are you the Intrepid teacher are not scared of swine flew?

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 9:34 am30 Larissa

HERE!

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 9:49 am31 vasco

Sean stop talking to the intrepidteacher like that i dont want home to IN THE HOLIDAY/SCHOOL WEEK.

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 9:56 am32 Larissa

This is my gmail e-mail

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Intrepidteacher Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Welcome! Nicely done!

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 10:21 am33 James

I’ am here!

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 10:25 am34 gijs

so where can you find the chatroom

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Intrepidteacher Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 10:44 am
I will set them up here and there and share the times via Facebook. I have a lot to do today, but we will try and set one up later today or tomorrow.

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vasco Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 11:18 am
I do not have a face book account!

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Intrepidteacher Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Don’t worry about it for now. I am using it as a way to stay in touch with people. If you stay tuned here at the blog, or look to the right hand sidebar, you can read the Facebook updates. And see if there is a chat room being scheduled, for now the chat rooms are only for people having problems.

Once we get enough of you online and connected we can start to have some classes and discussions.

Sean Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 11:21 am
you dont have to, its only 4 the peeple that have facebook
on 29 Sep 2009 at 11:33 am35 Sean

I’ve found a great websight for our school to go on for maths. its a combanation of games and work it is not to challengeing and not to easy it would be good if the school got it. The websight is called study island and it would be great if one of the teachers would check it out at some point

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Intrepidteacher Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 11:36 am
You could email that to the math teachers that would be great!

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 11:48 am36 Larissa

I’m in the chat room with more children but your not there!

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 12:03 pm37 Sean

@Mr.R: I alredy did. by the way were do you post the famous quote thing?
@lorrisa r u talking 2 me

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Intrepidteacher Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Under the post where the picture is posted.

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 12:34 pm38 sarah

Hi what’s up?=]=]=]=]

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Intrepidteacher Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Make sure you have a gmail account and have left a comment on the image and quote post.

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 12:52 pm39 Larissa

no iwas talking to mMr raisdana

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 12:58 pm40 Candida

Hello. I’m here.

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Intrepidteacher Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Great. I see you are a fan of the Facebook page and have a gmail account. Now go and leave a comment on the quote and you are all caught up.

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 2:40 pm41 Anna

here

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 4:58 pm42 vasco

not here

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Intrepidteacher Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Please do not waste this public classroom space with jokes. Leave productive comments or none at all.

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on 30 Sep 2009 at 9:58 am43 Jared

Hello!! im here….

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on 30 Sep 2009 at 10:25 am44 vasco

How many comments can this blog hold Mr R?

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Intrepidteacher Reply:
September 30th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Lot’s but I want to create conversations, so we shouldn’t use this space just to say hi or ask questions that don’t have to do with the original post. You can email me those questions.

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on 30 Sep 2009 at 8:15 pm45 sol

I’m here as well!

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on 04 Oct 2009 at 8:43 am46 Nadia

Hi, i’m here. ( In school actually)

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on 04 Oct 2009 at 10:42 am47 Hassan

well im here, lets get started

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on 04 Oct 2009 at 10:44 am48 Hassan

Hey im here! Well lets get it started

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on 04 Oct 2009 at 3:33 pm49 Jeppe

Hey there,

Jeppe is now on

Let´s do this thing

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on 04 Oct 2009 at 4:54 pm50 sarah

Hi it’s me!!!

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