Thank you God and my awesome Book club students for a great session today! I loved hearing from all of you, with the questions posted re Swiss Family Robinson and Robinson Crusoe; the wonderful collaboration, on outdoor survival and the sharing of book reviews and Prezi by Zion, Ayrelea and Denise. They are posted here. I think we were all wowed by what a great literary and techie group we have! Thanks also to Jenessa for joining our group and blessing us with her encouragement. We missed our few members who could not make the session.
Zion and Aryelea won for their techie presentation on Prezi. Tyler won for best contribution on his outdoor list sharing and reasoning for duct tape! Denise won for best review this month, please send me your word doc Denise? Everyone who contributed in the discussion raised important points, and brought some encouraging comments to the fore. Now some of the names I have shared may have already received a prize. If that is the case please let me know? Also if you have not received a prize after being told you were going to get one, please let me know.
You might be interested in finding out the list of survival ideas your students brought to the emergency list. Here are the essentials:
1. Bible
2. Fire lighter of some kind
3. Tarp for cover
4. Family or friends.
5. First aid kit and antibiotics
6. Food of some kind
7. Twine or duct tape.
8. Hatchet and knife and stone for sharpening.
9. Weapons
10. Pot for cooking and collecting water.
We have one more session left in book club and that is for our author read and discussion. I am collaborating with author Eric Walters, to see if he will be available to join us for a live webinar. If this pans out we will need to read one of his books. Soooo with that in mind I am going to let you decide which one of his books to read. Here is a list of his potential goodies!
The Bully Boys.
Caged Eagles
Run
Rebound
Fly Boy
The Pole
We will need to have read one of his books to be able to ask him relevant questions. Please let me know which book you are reading;)
I will let you know more about a date for our next meeting once I have spoken to Eric. I will know more towards the end of the spring break. Our session will hopefully be in April.
Enjoy your holidays and see you all soon on skype, the ning or collaborize!
Many blessings
Pippa Davies
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Book Club March
Hello Everyone,
What an amazing group of literary friends I have! We have been working on writing reviews and making video trailers this last month, after reading Raising Dragons. Congratulations to Sofi, Jonah, Chloe, Denise, Zion and Ayrelea for sharing your gifts in writing and technical expertise. To see some of the writing and technical wonders go here.
Our next meeting will be on March 6th at 2.30 pm. We are reading Swiss Family Robinson and some of our older students are reading Robinson Crusoe.
Here is the link for our next classroom:
We look forward to doing a comparison discussion, but reading both books is not required.
For those of you still working on your trailers please feel free to do on any of the books we have read.
At the next discussion I would like you to please find your favourite part of the book to read and share with your fellow book club friends for our next session. We will also discuss outdoor survival from a Christian point of view? If you were along on a desert island, and you had a choice to have one thing with you, what would it be?
Looking forward to a great discussion and see you all on Collaborize Classroom!
Many Blessings
Pippa Davies
What an amazing group of literary friends I have! We have been working on writing reviews and making video trailers this last month, after reading Raising Dragons. Congratulations to Sofi, Jonah, Chloe, Denise, Zion and Ayrelea for sharing your gifts in writing and technical expertise. To see some of the writing and technical wonders go here.
Our next meeting will be on March 6th at 2.30 pm. We are reading Swiss Family Robinson and some of our older students are reading Robinson Crusoe.
Here is the link for our next classroom:
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7345&password=M.404C9AF66D94F6F328175DB18B8A51 |
We look forward to doing a comparison discussion, but reading both books is not required.
For those of you still working on your trailers please feel free to do on any of the books we have read.
At the next discussion I would like you to please find your favourite part of the book to read and share with your fellow book club friends for our next session. We will also discuss outdoor survival from a Christian point of view? If you were along on a desert island, and you had a choice to have one thing with you, what would it be?
Looking forward to a great discussion and see you all on Collaborize Classroom!
Many Blessings
Pippa Davies
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
January Book News
Hello Everyone:)
Welcome back to a great new school year full of reading promises! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and holiday with your families.
The last December session was so much fun with the webinar and games! A big thank you to Micah, for his webinar on video trailers, and all the great Pictionary players. Also Congrats to Sofi for her great book review here! I am really excited to see some of your book trailers too during our next session! There will be prizes for the best trailers:) Or you can send ahead of time and I can post to the blog. Here again is the trailer that Micah made for us in his session.
Our next meeting is next week Wednesday 16th Jan, and I am thinking 2.30 pm is perhaps a better time to host our meetings as we had a good turnout? Let me know please if that time frame works for you?
Here is the link to join the meeting.
I look forward to sharing more about Raising Dragons on Collaborize Classroom soon, but feel free to share your forum discussions.
Many blessings for a healthy, and joyous year!
Pippa
Welcome back to a great new school year full of reading promises! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and holiday with your families.
The last December session was so much fun with the webinar and games! A big thank you to Micah, for his webinar on video trailers, and all the great Pictionary players. Also Congrats to Sofi for her great book review here! I am really excited to see some of your book trailers too during our next session! There will be prizes for the best trailers:) Or you can send ahead of time and I can post to the blog. Here again is the trailer that Micah made for us in his session.
Our next meeting is next week Wednesday 16th Jan, and I am thinking 2.30 pm is perhaps a better time to host our meetings as we had a good turnout? Let me know please if that time frame works for you?
Here is the link to join the meeting.
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7345&password=M.404C9AF66D94F6F328175DB18B8A51 |
I look forward to sharing more about Raising Dragons on Collaborize Classroom soon, but feel free to share your forum discussions.
Many blessings for a healthy, and joyous year!
Pippa
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
December Reading!
Hello book club friends,
Thank you for sharing so well at our session yesterday! I loved hearing your questions even if you were not able to make the session! The conversation was definitely inspiring!!
The winner for getting the best discussion was Jonah followed closely by Zion, and Johnathon, who could not be there but sent me his discussion criteria! Congrats Jonah! You will be receiving your Amazon gift card shortly!
So here is the news for our next meeting, based on voting results:
BOOK: Raising Dragons by Bryan Davis. I am pretty sure we have a copy in the physical commons and I have ordered a copy for the e library. I have also ordered all your requests for the e library! They should be there in the next month. If you are not sure how to log onto the new e library let me know and I will help you.
WHEN: January 16th @1.30pm. Please let me know if this time does not work for you. I understand there are some of you who are effected by an hour delay.
WHERE: Blackboard Collaborate:
Here is the link to join the classroom:
We might gather for a virtual Christmas party in December, if you want to bring your favourite read and share with a cuppa hot chocolate;) Let me know what you think? This would just be social!!
The competition next time is to make a BOOK TRAILER, or written book review for our book review project next time.
I hope to host a webinar soon on making a video including a book trailer, but here is a link sharing some ways for making trailers.
Standard Book review. From our book clubbers last year with written book reviews and video trailers!
Video trailer tutorial page. This teacher librarian takes video trailers to another level. Last year some of our students made stop motion movies to and there is a webinar I can share with you if you are interested? Our teen geek squad gave this one recently.
Have an awesome month and see you in cyberspace on the ning, on Skype or Collaborize Classroom or email;) You can join the ning if you are 13 and older. Let me know and I will send you an invite to any of these virtual hangouts!
Thank you for sharing so well at our session yesterday! I loved hearing your questions even if you were not able to make the session! The conversation was definitely inspiring!!
The winner for getting the best discussion was Jonah followed closely by Zion, and Johnathon, who could not be there but sent me his discussion criteria! Congrats Jonah! You will be receiving your Amazon gift card shortly!
So here is the news for our next meeting, based on voting results:
BOOK: Raising Dragons by Bryan Davis. I am pretty sure we have a copy in the physical commons and I have ordered a copy for the e library. I have also ordered all your requests for the e library! They should be there in the next month. If you are not sure how to log onto the new e library let me know and I will help you.
WHEN: January 16th @1.30pm. Please let me know if this time does not work for you. I understand there are some of you who are effected by an hour delay.
WHERE: Blackboard Collaborate:
Here is the link to join the classroom:
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7345&password=M.404C9AF66D94F6F328175DB18B8A51 |
We might gather for a virtual Christmas party in December, if you want to bring your favourite read and share with a cuppa hot chocolate;) Let me know what you think? This would just be social!!
The competition next time is to make a BOOK TRAILER, or written book review for our book review project next time.
I hope to host a webinar soon on making a video including a book trailer, but here is a link sharing some ways for making trailers.
Standard Book review. From our book clubbers last year with written book reviews and video trailers!
Video trailer tutorial page. This teacher librarian takes video trailers to another level. Last year some of our students made stop motion movies to and there is a webinar I can share with you if you are interested? Our teen geek squad gave this one recently.
Have an awesome month and see you in cyberspace on the ning, on Skype or Collaborize Classroom or email;) You can join the ning if you are 13 and older. Let me know and I will send you an invite to any of these virtual hangouts!
December Christmas getogether
Hi Everyone,
This is just a short reminder that we are coming together for our Christmas chat on December 12th at 1pm.
This is just a short reminder that we are coming together for our Christmas chat on December 12th at 1pm.
We will listen to Micah share his making a tutorial book trailer, and also share a Christmas tradition, and play Pictionary. We will be done by 2 pm. Dont forget to bring your ideas for making your video trailer or book review! See you soon!
Here is the link for the classroom:
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
November Meeting!
Thank you to all our book club members for the awesome contributions and sharing at our last book club meeting to discuss Farley Mowat's book Owls in the Family. Praise God for literary minds!
Many of you are now contributing your own forums and having discussions on the Collaborize Classroom. If you are still not on please let me know and I will send an invite. Or you can choose to register at the classroom.
I have posted some of the books we might read there for our next session and invite your response on the forum:)
This month we will be reading The Door Within.
I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the book at our Blackboard Collaborate session:)
You may be prompted to download some software which may take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes depending on your Internet connection speed. Join your meeting early if you can.
A microphone and headphones or speakers will allow you to participate fully in the meeting. although from what I hear it is now optional for sound quality.
Visit the Configuration Room and use the Audio Setup Wizard before the meeting to make sure your computer's audio is configured correctly.
Meeting Name: Junior Book Club 2012
Organized By: Pippa Davies
Starts: Nov 21, 2012, [Wed] 03:15 PM Pacific Standard Time
(You may join 30 minutes prior)
Ends: Nov 21, 2012, [Wed] 04:30 PM Pacific Standard Time
Participant Link: (to invite others, email them this link)
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7345&password=M.793088537DB7FB77E4F3B93C903D5A
This month we will have a prize for the best question to elicit the most discussion on our book!! Looking forward to seeing you all there and sharing in the reading fun!! Chat on Collaborize or on skype!
Blessings
Mrs Pippa
Many of you are now contributing your own forums and having discussions on the Collaborize Classroom. If you are still not on please let me know and I will send an invite. Or you can choose to register at the classroom.
I have posted some of the books we might read there for our next session and invite your response on the forum:)
This month we will be reading The Door Within.
I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the book at our Blackboard Collaborate session:)
You may be prompted to download some software which may take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes depending on your Internet connection speed. Join your meeting early if you can.
A microphone and headphones or speakers will allow you to participate fully in the meeting. although from what I hear it is now optional for sound quality.
Visit the Configuration Room and use the Audio Setup Wizard before the meeting to make sure your computer's audio is configured correctly.
Meeting Name: Junior Book Club 2012
Organized By: Pippa Davies
Starts: Nov 21, 2012, [Wed] 03:15 PM Pacific Standard Time
(You may join 30 minutes prior)
Ends: Nov 21, 2012, [Wed] 04:30 PM Pacific Standard Time
Participant Link: (to invite others, email them this link)
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7345&password=M.793088537DB7FB77E4F3B93C903D5A
This month we will have a prize for the best question to elicit the most discussion on our book!! Looking forward to seeing you all there and sharing in the reading fun!! Chat on Collaborize or on skype!
Blessings
Mrs Pippa
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Junior Book club (grade 6-8) Launch 2012/2013
Welcome to Junior Book Club 2012/13
Hello to all book club members for 2012/13. I am very excited to launch our junior book club for the year and would like to share a little bit about how book club will work :)
When and Where do we meet? Starting up again in mid October we will meet every 6 weeks on a Wednesday, with the first session on October 10th @4 pm via Blackboard Collaborate. We go right through until the end of May 2013. Sessions last for about an hour..sometimes a little longer. You will also be sent a link to participate in our Collaborize Classroom which is where we will discuss books and socialize in between meetings!
What do you need?
A good microphone headset, and time to read the books and come to meetings.
A public library card or access to a library to borrow books. Our E library is also available for reading pleasure. All books are reviewed by myself, and "clubbers", for suitability and enjoyment for both boys and girls.
On Blackboard Collaborate you may be prompted to download some software which may take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes depending on your Internet connection speed. Join your meeting early if you can.
A microphone and headphones or speakers will allow you to participate fully in the meeting.
Visit the Configuration Room and use the Audio Setup Wizard before the meeting to make sure your computer's audio is configured correctly.
Please watch the participant tutorial as this will help with set up.
What do we do? We chat about books, pray for each other and discuss literacy, suggest new books, read and celebrate our creative writing, learn how to write a book review and maybe make a book trailer, and generally get to know each other:)
I want to thank all my previous book club members for blessing me this year with amazing conversation, along with their supportive parents who encouraged them to fulfill their literacy goals.
Book List!
Here is the list of possible reads for next year! Students will get to vote from this list, and be able to add to it as well for this coming year. We will start with Owls in the Family as our first book, and once you have emailed me of your interest you are encouraged to start reading.Moby Dick. Herman Mellville.
Owls in the Family. Farley Mowat.
The Mistmantle Chronicles
Treasure Island. Robert. Louis Stevenson.
Mixed Up Tales of Mrs Basil Frankweiler. El Konigsberg.
Stormbreaker. Anthony Horowitz
Other books????
REGISTRATION click on this REGISTRATION LINK
We will be using this blog as our launching pad, and I hope all book clubbers will be able to contribute their book reviews or communications via the blog, or Collabrorize Classroom. All meeting times and updates will be posted to this site. If you have a student in grade 10, 11, 12 please contact Calvin Johnston cjohnston@onlineschool.ca. Calvin is our grade 11 Language arts teacher and we are very blessed to have him this year as a book club moderator!
Have fun reading this year!!
God Bless
Pippa Davies
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