exploring your community through a community of practice

School to School contact

Keeping with the theme of exploring our community through a community of practice, I would like to initiate a discussion on the possibility of linking schools through this network where eco-clubs in schools can have contact with similar groups in other countries to encourage sharing experiences and ideas. Teachers and EE practitioners involved are welcome to brainstorm the subject as to how feasible such an idea would be. We probably will have to consider quite a few things such as the logistics involved, access to computers (especially in rural schools), students time etc.

If there are teachers, students and practitioners interested please enter into this discussion. Better even, if anyone would like to become the first school looking for a partnering school, please join the discussion and let hear how feasible this can be. Elna de Beer

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Permalink Risposto da Elna de Beer su 16 Giugno 2009 a 15:21

HI Odirilwe,

Thank you for the support on the initiative. Yes I firmly believe that children needs to be involved much more in environmental programmes.

I see you are from Polokwane - what are you involved with there? I know from my involvement with the SA Wildlife College that the environmental issues in your province are quite challenging.

Thank you again for the kind comments and please stay connected via Green Leaves - it is a wonderful network.

Regards,

Elna

odirilwe said:

Hello All,

I do not have anything very useful to say that would contribute to this discussion, but I must say I like the initiative you guys are making! The good thing about it all is that you are focusing on young children, thus instilling a culture of good practice from a young age. Being a student in environmental studies myself, this kind of initiatives are of great interest to me. Thank you all and keep the good work up!

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Permalink Risposto da Tina Pannullo su 9 Settembre 2009 a 12:19

Excuse my absence, but we were on holidays
Monday will begin the new year school and we will answer soon!
Tina

Elna de Beer said:

Hi Tina,

Please have a look at the attached file. Maybe we can get our school to school contact going by having the children write a letter to one another. What do you think?

Elna

Tina Pannullo said:
It 'a good idea .... my pupils will be excited to correspond with the children of South Africa...

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Permalink Risposto da Elna de Beer su 9 Settembre 2009 a 19:41

Dear Tina, no apologies needed. I hope the holiday was good! We are looking forward to hearing from you and the children. I will pass it on to Karin as well. Looking forward to hearing from you. Elna

Tina Pannullo said:

Excuse my absence, but we were on holidays
Monday will begin the new year school and we will answer soon!
Tina

Elna de Beer said:
Hi Tina,

Please have a look at the attached file. Maybe we can get our school to school contact going by having the children write a letter to one another. What do you think?

Elna

Tina Pannullo said:
It 'a good idea .... my pupils will be excited to correspond with the children of South Africa...

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Permalink Risposto da Massimo su 9 Settembre 2009 a 21:21

Hi Tina, Hi Elna
It was time! Finally our work can start again! I hope that we can find many opportunities of work together.
Tina, we can hear ourselves in the next days!
I would to work together you and your children with maps - so as Wagner proposed!
A big Ciao
Massimo

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Permalink Risposto da Tina Pannullo su 23 Settembre 2009 a 22:30

Thanks

odirilwe said:

Hello All,

I do not have anything very useful to say that would contribute to this discussion, but I must say I like the initiative you guys are making! The good thing about it all is that you are focusing on young children, thus instilling a culture of good practice from a young age. Being a student in environmental studies myself, this kind of initiatives are of great interest to me. Thank you all and keep the good work up!

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Permalink Risposto da Tina Pannullo su 23 Settembre 2009 a 22:44

Ciao a tutti
ho pensato di pubblicare la traduzione delle slides di Karin,nella speranza che il suo invito venga accolto anche da altri insegnanti. Noi prepareremo a breve una risposta,raccontando la nostra esperienza
Per noi intendo la IV A della scuola Costa di Cinisello Balsamo e rispettive insegnanti....conto molto sulla collaborazione della nuova teacher di inglese!

Hello everyone
I thought to publish the translation of slides of Karin, I hope that his invitation is accepted by other teachers. We will prepare early a answer, telling our experience
We are the IV A of school Costa ,with their teachers .... I hope that the new teacher of English help us!!!
Sorry for my english!!!!

Slide 1
Hello, my name is Karin Vanessa Isaacs and I saw on Green Leaves what you are doing in the school. I am a field ranger at one of South Africa’s National Parks. It is called Augrabies National Park. Ask your teacher to show you a map of the world and see if you can find South Africa. I work with school children in our park and there are many kids in our communities that have never been to a park.

Ciao, mi chiamo Karin Vanessa Isaacs e ho visto su Green Leaves quello che state facendo a scuola. Sono una guardia forestale in uno dei parchi nazionali del Sudafrica, il Parco Nazionale Augrabies. Chiedete alla vostra maestra di mostrarvi una cartina del mondo e vedete se riuscite a trovare il Sudafrica. Lavoro con i bambini della scuola nel nostro parco e ci sono molti bambini nelle nostre comunità che non sono mai stati in un parco.

Slide 2
I would like to invite you to write a letter to the kids that visit our Park and tell them about what you are learning about nature and the environment. I am sure our children would like to learn from you. You can also send us some pictures of what you are doing.

Vorrei invitarvi a scrivere una lettera ai bambini che visitano il nostro parco e parlargli di quello che state imparando sulla natura e l'ambiente. Sono sicura che ai nostri bambini farebbe piacere imparare da voi. Potete anche mandarci qualche foto di quello che state facendo.

Would you like to do that?

Vi piacerebbe farlo?

Slide 3

Do you visit your Parks? What do you learn there?

Voi visitate i vostri parchi? Là che cosa imparate?

This is a picture of our kids visiting the park. Do you see the bus in the background? With the bus we go fetch the children at their school and then we bring them to visit the park

Questa è una foto dei nostri bambini mentre visitano il parco. Vedete l'autobus sullo sfondo? Con l'autobus andiamo a prendere i bambini a scuola e poi li portiamo a visitare il parco.

Slide 4

HELPING OTHERS

AIUTARE GLI ALTRI

In our Park we not only learn about nature and the environment, we also learn to help other people. We help people in our community to learn about HIV, which is a bad disease and we need to teach kids about how to live their lives in a way that they will not get sick.

Nel nostro parco non solo impariamo cose sulla natura e l'ambiente, ma impariamo anche ad aiutare gli altri. Aiutiamo le persone della nosta comunità a conoscere l'HIV, che è una brutta malattia, e noi dobbiamo insegnare ai bambini come comportarsi per non ammalarsi.

Slide 5

If you would like to write to our kids, please ask your teacher to help. We in South Africa and especially the kids visiting the Augrabies National Park would like to hear from you and maybe we can get other children who are learning about nature and their environment to also tell us about what they are doing.

Next time I will introduce you to a few of the children who are visiting our park and ask them to write a letter to your school.

Se volete scrivere ai nostri bambini, chiedete alla vostra maesta di aiutarvi. A noi in Sudafrica, e soprattutto ai bambini che visitano il Parco Nazionale Augrabies piacerebbe avere vostre notizie e forse altri bambini che stanno imparando cose sulla natura e l'ambiente potrebbero raccontarvi quello che stanno facendo.
La prossima volta vi presenterò ad alcuni bambini che stanno visitando il nostro parco e gli chiederò di scrivere una lettera alla vostra scuola.

Keep well and enjoy learning about nature!!!
How do I say goodbye in Italian. Please teach me!!
Karin

State bene e divertitevi imparando cose sulla natura!!!
Come si dice “arrivederci” in italiano? Per favore , inseghatemelo!!
karin

Massimo said:

Hi Tina, Hi Elna
It was time! Finally our work can start again! I hope that we can find many opportunities of work together.
Tina, we can hear ourselves in the next days!
I would to work together you and your children with maps - so as Wagner proposed!
A big Ciao
Massimo

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Permalink Risposto da Tina Pannullo su 23 Settembre 2009 a 22:48

to Karin
GOODBYE in italian is ARRIVEDERCI!!!!!
Talk to you early

Elna de Beer said:

Hi Tina,

Please have a look at the attached file. Maybe we can get our school to school contact going by having the children write a letter to one another. What do you think?

Elna

Tina Pannullo said:
It 'a good idea .... my pupils will be excited to correspond with the children of South Africa...