What a nice surprise greeeted me via Skype this morning. Angela Stockman sent me the link to the above newspaper article about her daughter Laura and Working together 2 make a difference.
It was written by Sarah Hanson, a freshman at Alden High who is a member of the site. Sarah has captured the motivation of the site very well [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Skype’
May 21, 2009
Working together 2 make a difference finds its way into print
March 27, 2009
Sleepout for Schools
We had a great meeting with some of our Yr 9 students during the week to see if there was enough interest to get a fundraising activity organised to support Daraja Academy in Kenya (see Mark Lukach’s page here and blog posts as well as Jabiz Raisdana’s) and the Bal Ashram in India.
(View of the Daraja Academy [...]
March 1, 2009
Gone Skypin’
Image via CrunchBase
Wow. We had an amazing couple of days last week at my school using Skype to connect our students to the world.
First stop was Buffalo, New York, when Laura Stockman skyped into our Grade 5 class. They were learning about her good works because they have been doing some themselves . Our Junior School last week raised [...]
July 28, 2008
Need to get info to parents overseas – try Skype!
Tonight we had a parent information evening for our Yr 9 and 10 students. A parent was not in the country and wanted to listen to the presentation. I decided to have a go at using ustream or mogulus (I have channels on both) to stream the presentation. I was going to direct the parent to [...]
June 4, 2008
Skyping with Laura.
Today in my Yr 7 class we were involved in a Skype call with the inspirational Laura Stockman from Buffalo, New York. That’s Laura above with the special care packs she has put together for Cheerful Givers, one of the charities she has been supporting. (I hope you don’t mind me using your picture Laura – if you do [...]
May 28, 2008
Laura Stockman – inspiring others across the waves.
Sunday morning I was grazing through my Google reader, kicking back and hoping I’d find something that would inspire me to write. I found something better than that, I found something that inspired me to act.
I checked out Will Richardson’s latest post and discovered Laura Stockman, an 11yr old from New York who has been [...]
April 28, 2008
Maximise your use of Skype.
We’ve been trying out a new way to move our staff forward with adoption of new technologies that they can apply to learning. We’ve called it ‘Maximise your Mondays’ and run a session for 45mins at the end of a school day. It’s been running for only a few weeks and we haven’t had big [...]
February 27, 2008
Students showing us the way – that means you Lindsea!
The past couple of days have been pretty overwhelming for a humble little blogger like me! Thanks to a Twitter post by Vicki Davis my blog has seen unprecedented traffic. (Thank you Vicki - I didn’t understand the power of Twitter until now – I still don’t quite get it but I’m working on it!) It’s [...]
