The Ripplers are investigating how we can work towards becoming successful learners – and not just for school either. We’re interested in how to be the best learners possible wherever we go and with whatever we do. So we’d like you to meet Danny MacAskill. He is from Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. One day [...]

Our class has access to 10 iPods! How cool is that? Really, it’s only been for the last couple months, but we are really excited to be learning how these devices can enrich our learning. There are actually 20 in the school, but we only have 10 of them because there are actually two initiatives [...]

Alright everyone I, Ms. Rogerson, am back at it again!  Have you ever been so wrapped up in a new concept that it follows you around?  Well, I must admit that after teaching geometry for the past week I see angles everywhere.  Not only do I see them in my everyday environment, but I have [...]

Did you know that almost everything you have written since you created your first post in October has been saved on your dashboard? Not only does it save when you press “Save Draft” or “Publish”, but there is also an autosave built into the program. Your final job this week is to go back to [...]

Ripplers … remember this video, the Networked Student? We originally watched it to get a feel of the commoncraft design we used for our own videos. We watched it a few times, so I could ask you to focus on different things. The first time, I asked you to watch for the tools you recognize being [...]

Following World War II, the United Nations adopted its first Declaration on the Rights of the Child on November 20, 1959. Included in it were 10 principles that began to outline the basic rights that children were entitled to. Thirty years later, on the same date in 1989, the Conventions on the Rights of the [...]

The results are in! Thank you to everyone who participated in our survey of super powers. Altogether, data was collected from 93 people and in the end shape-shifting has proven to be the most desirable one. It was very interesting to see the results unfold as shape-shifting took a sizeable lead early on, but in the last [...]

In the first few weeks of school, our class set about deciding how we would develop a positive learning environment and classroom community. Using Flickr photographs, we brainstormed ideas about how these images could represent what we collectively wanted to see in the classroom (thank you Mrs. Smith for the wonderful idea). For example, some suggestions [...]