WikiEducator visits Antarctica

[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi Everyone,

Trisha Korth (http://wikieducator.org/User:Tkorth), a primary school teacher from Warrington School has been granted a Primary Science Teacher Fellowship with the Royal Society. Trish has joined a team of marine ecologists from NIWA to study the coastal organisms living below the frozen sea ice of the Ross Sea in Antarctica., As we speak trish is connecting from Antarctica with students and WikiEducators around the world!

Trish signed up for a Learning4Content workshop and has established an OER portal page to document her journey.  See:

http://wikieducator.org/Antarctica

Trish is connecting with students back home from Antarctica and is taking WikiEducator with her on this amazing discovery. For example, students from Waikouaiti School are asking:

• How did it feel landing on the 2m thick ice?
• What other types of animals have you seen?
• How did it feel going in the dinosaur?
• What did it feel like on the Dc17?
• Have you done a cart-wheel on the ice yet? (Which will make sense when you visit Trish's portal page: http://wikieducator.org/Antarctica)
• Where there any baby emperor penguins?
  

Trish is an inspiration showing us what a motivated teacher can do with OER and open source technologies. Trish is posting a video and photo log of her experiences on WikiEducator. WE look forward to the next installment (see: http://wikieducator.org/Trisha%27s_photos_and_video_clips) .

Trish -- WikiEducator say's thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world!

Cheers
Wayne






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[Savithri Singh]

Great !! It'll be real COOL to read a first-hand report about Trisha's stay at Antartica.

Savithri

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[aprasad]

CONGRATULATIONS TRISHA!!!!!!!!

 

... and eagerly awaiting to read your experience and findings related to your Antarctica exploration on WikiEducator

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[NELLIE DEUTSCH]

Wow, this is absolutely incredible. My daughter sold one of her paintings on a wall in someone's office over there. I wonder if Trish can take a photo of it hanging there and I could send it to her as a birthday present (November 24).
Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutsch
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[Wayne Mackintosh]

Wow Nellie

That's a serendipitous connection --- open networked communities never cease to amaze me!!

Do you know which base the picture is hanging?

Cheers
Wayne

2009/10/27 NELLIE DEUTSCH <nellie.mul...@gmail.com>

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[NELLIE DEUTSCH]

Hi Wayne,
Yes, it was bought by an American officer (woman).

Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutsch
Sharing is Caring!
Doctoral Student
Educational Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
Integrating Technology @ http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd
Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/
Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops

[NELLIE DEUTSCH]