Every Summer volunteers at our local Surf Life Saving Club – Carlton Park keep you and your family safe  on the beach. 

Our school  is keen to support our Surf Life Saving Club – to give something back to the volunteer life savers!!

Boardies Day – Friday November 2009

Boardies Day is a  free dress day for schools. Simply swap your uniforms for your fav boardies  and make a gold coin donation to help save lives.

We even have our own  Boardies Day Web page:

Check out our progress on the Hero Meter

make a donation online

http://www.everydayhero.com.au/annette_logan)

What makes a good web-site??

lots of colour?   cool pics?  awesome links?  not much text? easy to follow?

What are your 5 Criteria for rating a web-site Awesome?

Your Task:         Write a post on your blog  that includes :      

1.       list of your 5 criteria

2.      5 awesome web-site links for us to check out.

Design an e-collage that could be used as part of an awareness campaign

using images from internet sites about one of the following:

• Your endangered animal or species
• Biodiveristy
• Tasmanian Endangerted Species
• Australian Endangered species

Below are a series of e-collage posters that have been copied from the web-site ’Bing Images’

 illusrating the plight of Endangered Animal species. This collage will be part of your ICT Assessment for this term.

Not many people in life have experienced a ‘dream run’ to success. In fact, life is full of setbacks and even tragedies that could have potentially put an end to  dreams. But the difference between successful people and those who seem to end up with no direction in life, is not so much what life has dealt them , but rather how they have rebounded from misfortune and hardships.

As the Chinese philosopher Confucius said ‘Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall’.

It is a tough lesson in life that our character is often tried, tested and finally forged by the difficulties that we have to face.

 The great physicist Albert Einstein maintained, however, that ‘in the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity’.

It is this sort of attitude that helps us to look forward to better days, to keep on trying when there seems no hope at all, to stay focused on our dreams and finally, gives us the ability to rebound from life’s difficulties. 

Do you have a rebound story about your or someone you know.??

Have you or someone you know shown a resilient attitude to life’s obstacles??

Share your story with others.

In the words of Nickleback…..  

 If today was your last day

and tomorow was too late

Could you say goodbye to yesterday?

Would you live each moment like our last?

 leave old pictures in the past?

 Donate every dime you had?

What would you do if today was the last

day?  ……………………………………………………….

To view the full lyrics to this song:          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8dVgzgpJic

Use this link  http://help.edublogs.org/2009/07/29/inserting-images-into-your-posts/to

read the instructions and when stumped they asked other students who had already added images.

If you have saved an image on your computer then it is best to use the ‘Browser uploader”.

It’s that time  the term again.   Reflection Time!!

As we wind towards the September holidays and attempt to book  a seat On the Bus for the 6/7 PEP, we need to refleect upon our term’s work and effort.

• Have you worked well in class?
• Have you completed all of yourwork and assignments?
• Have you participated in all learning activities?
• Have you produced quality work? Worked to the best of your ability?

How have you gone? What have been your highlights?

 In what ways have you let yourself down? Could have done better?

Write a post on your blog that shows your honest reflection.

News Flash!!!!!

Ms Wyatt has created a Middle School so that we can all blog together.

It has some great links to other AMAZING BLOGGERS and other bloggers.

Investigate 3 NEW BLOGS, read a post or page on EACH blog

 and leave a comment on each one.

SO that’s 3 comments to write!!!!

Black and White day today is to draw attention to the plight of the Tasmanian devil. Our very own native animal species (the Tasmanian devil) is under threat of exctinction from the Facial Tumour Disease.

Follow the links below and find out:                         

What is Facial Tumour Disease and how it is threatening our Tassie Devil?

Who is Nature Nic and what has he achieved so far?

http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/EKOE-6EXURG

http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/EKOE-6EXURG

http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/LBUN-5QF86G?open

What can we do to help our unique Tasmanian Devil?

Post your thoughts and  suggestions to this site. or send nature Nic a messsage of support.

All students will be assessed on their ICT skills throughout the year.

To find out what you will be assessed on, and how you can demonstrate your skills read the page that corresponds to your year level.

(the links are at the top of the page, and at the side under the heading pages)

Original image: ‘Ciber Cafe‘
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70321513@N00/95757299
by: Lars Kristian Flem

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