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It’s good to see that students have come up with so many good ideas with domain names.
1. Watch this video.
2. Come up with a brilliant domain name that follows these rules.
3. Check it at Network Solutions.
4. If you find a great name that is free, leave a comment here on this entry at Red Space Rocket.
Here are the times that should have been noted in your study planner.
Maths Mate: 7 and 8 – complete by next Friday – 26th April
Personal reflection (7E only) – Thursday next week
Literacy – task 1 or 2 – next Monday
In this episode, Mark O’Meara is joined by Dean Greenhalgh – Year 9 Learning Community Leader – and two year 9 students, Jess and Bailey.
In our first topic, we talk about the house system that we have reintroduced here at our school. Jess and Bailey are both house captains for their Year level.
In our second topic, we talk about our Year 9 program here at Western Heights College, and what it offers students.
Finally, we talk about things that are making us smarter, including study skills and getting better results using feedback.
I imagine that most people are aware of Google Translate, which translates typed text from one language to another. There are plenty of languages available and, although machine translations are never perfect, it is impressive and functional.
You can even go from languages that use the Latin alphabet (such as English) into languages that use other scripts. Going the other way is possible, too, but slightly harder if you only have a standard Latin QWERTY keyboard.
There are a number of sites, for example, that allow you to type in Urdu, lanaguag that does not use Latin characters. If you only wrote Urdu, you could type on this site and then copy your text across to Google Translate to turn it into English.
Of course, this is not available for all languages. For instance, I tried to find out how to do this for a language called Hazaragi, but did not find any solutions.
This summer I went swimming,
This summer I might have drowned
But I held my breath and I kicked my feet
And I moved my arms around,
I moved my arms around.
Loudon Wainwright III
I finally managed to record our first-ever episode of the Western Heights Learning Podcast today, so here it is. And I’d like to give a massive thank you to Will, Jackson and Mr Sachse!
I recently asked my Year 10 English students to write an honest account of what it is like to be a student, after we watched two films: The Class, a realistic French film about a class in an urban school, and Freedom Writers, a more traditional tale about one amazing teacher. As my students were writing these, one boy asked me to write the same piece about what it is really like to be a teacher. So here it is.
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As many of you will know, Travis recently won the state competition for plain speaking in Victoria, and will go on to the national finals. I interviewed Travis and Ms Galloway this morning.
