The End of an Era

After nearly 220,000 hits, readers in every country on the planet, mentions in global media, nominations for awards and recognition from  teachers and students worldwide… 6SS@NIST is shutting down. The reasons behind this are to do with every class in the school having blogs that look the same and every class in the school having blogs with similar URL addresses. The 6SS blog can now be found here: http://blogs.nist.ac.th/6ss/.

This blog has had an amazing effect on my teaching over the past three years and it has led to some amazing experiences for my students and I:

• the students telling us about the fires, explosions, riots and general violence surrounding their homes two years ago: https://6ssatnist.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/what-has-your-day-been-like/
• the amazing philosophical thinking in the Sponge vs. Stone postings: https://6ssatnist.wordpress.com/?s=sponge+stone
• the “essays” that students wrote as comments in response to Angela Maier’s article about Mallory Fundora ( and Mallory’s comments herself) https://6ssatnist.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/homework-read-think-share/
  
• The students reactions to Robyn Treyvaud’s presentation about online safety and then Robyn’s reaction to their comments: https://6ssatnist.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/reacting-to-robyn-treyvaud/#comments
• The advice that 6SS students gave to students at Mt. Scopus Memorial College as they prepared for their first PYP Exhibition: https://6ssatnist.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/advice-for-other-year-6grade-5-students/

Blogging has helped my students and I by:

• Giving us a place to react to and think about things at any time, and from anywhere
• Allowing us to express ourselves without being interrupted or told we’re wrong
• Allowing us to develop our thinking in a way that was not really possible before
• Giving us a place to share our interests, our creativity and our ideas
• Giving us an audience of real people who would read and respond to our writing
• Connecting us with other people
• Giving us a way to make homework more fun and more connection to what we do in class
• Giving us the possibility to do “online learning” when it was not possible to come to school
• Helping us to stay in touch during holidays

What effect did 6SS@NIST have on you?

6SS Specks of Gold!

 

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Homework – Check your email

1. Open your school email
2. Can you crack the code?
3. Do the job

When you’ve finished, type the following as a comment on this posting.

Cracked the code. Done the job. Deleted the email.

DO NOT TYPE THE CONTENTS OF THE EMAIL IN YOUR COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spend some time looking at the homework you have done so far. Read the things you have been writing. Think carefully about the things you have been talking about recently. Think back to the videos we watched.

What are you interested in learning more about? What is most relevant to you at the moment or in the next year or so?

This will be your research for next week and you will become an expert on it. Select an inquiry carefully and write a comment to tell us what you will be working on.

Homework: Tweet About NIST

There is a special book being created to celebrate NIST’s 20th anniversary. Each of you has to write something short and sweet about your school.

Log on to our Twitter account and write a Tweet that says how you feel about NIST. Remember it will be published so focus on positives and try to say something that is really you and your thoughts. We don’t just want a load of identical quotes.

 

Homework: Your Diet

We watched videos about puberty in class t0day. One of the main things that was mentioned was having a healthy diet in order to help your body cope with the changes it will go through. So, I think it w0uld be really helpful if we had some information about what you all eat an drink during a typical week of your life. We’re not going to pick on anyone for eating badly, we’re just going to use the information for our inquiries over the next few weeks.

Create a visual to show what you typically eat and drink every week. Make sure your visual answers the following questions:

• What do you eat for breakfast everyday?
• What do you eat for lunch on a school day? At the weekend?
• What do you eat at night?
• What kind of snacks do you eat?
• What and when do you drink the most?
• How much water do you drink?

Make your visual good to look at and full of useful information. Create on a computer or by hand.

 

Wear House Shirts Tomorrow

Wear your house shirts tomorrow…OK?

Your homework is below this posting.