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#8 ....................... A Publication Of SchoolNet Global
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In This Issue
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We get a glimpse of the historic village of Thame in Oxfordshire UK just 47 miles from London. This glimpse comes from the children of Barley Hill School in Thame who are just getting their feet wet as they begin to publish in SchoolNet Global. Welcome aboard!
Then we make a three-way connection, as we link children in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom together through iChat. Bob Hart and Carole Fletcher of Intuitive Media (the developers of SchoolNet Global) are able to join the children in this meeting while visiting a school on the West Coast of Canada.
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About Thame by Alex and Chloe
Full of old people. Very small. Full of very nice and magical flowers and plants. In Thame they have good shops with food, drinks,clothes and sweets. And some of the buildings are 400 years-old. More
Our Neighbourhood by David and Sophia
Our town is full of different shops. We go to school 5 days a week. After school we are allowed to do things like play and do sports. We do these things out of school. There are many clubs in Thame. We like lots of smells like different foods, the smell of fresh air. There are lots of sites to be seen in Thame. More
Our Thame by Sarah and Aaron
It almost always rains. It's got lots of shops and lots of people. It's got four schools. About 10,000 people live here. Thame has lots of woods.
We see lots of houses. We feel that Thame is full of life. We hear people talking and shouting. We smell horse manure and cow pats from the countryside. More
Our Town Thame by Ellis and Joanne
Sometimes school can be fun and sometimes it can be boring but the teachers are never nasty. I like Lee Park ... in Thame and I like swinging on the swinging tire and I love the slide and the swing. I like it when we go to the famous shops Pied Peddlar,Woolworths and the Co-op. More
Thame by Jamie and Emma
We live in a town called Thame that is a main town in Oxfordshire. It has lots of shops that sell great things, including toys and food. Every Tuesday there is a Market (Thame Market has been held on Tuesdays since 1230 ...ed). Thame has a new swimming pool where the floor moves. It is in the leisure center. More
Thame's Neighbourhood by Katie and Ronan
Very peaceful (not as peaceful as Kenya!) Everybody smiles and says hello! Sometimes we play with our friends. The parks are lots of fun you can play on the slides, seesaws, climbing frames and swings. We smell the chip shop & chinese food (good smell) More
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A Special Moment That Covered 8 Time Zones
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4:30 pm Tuesday June 7, a British news reporter from the Kentish Express entered St Mary's CE Primary School in Folkestone UK pointed his camera at a computer screen and got a picture of children from Doncaster Elementary in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada who were just beginning their day, many thousands of miles and 8 time zones away.
The children in both schools are members of SchoolNet Global. They were using iChat/AV with an iSight camera to communicate in real time. If this wasn't special enough, Bob Hart and Carole Fletcher from Intuitive Media (Lytton Derbyshire), the developers of SchoolNet Global were visiting the Canadian school and were able to experience for the first time the excitement generated by the beginnings of the real time video addition to SchoolNet Global that takes the world of Global Education to another level.
As soon as the English children signed off, the Canadians were online to another SchoolNet Global school in the Eastern United States. They began by singing the Canadian national anthem, "Oh, Canada" in French to their American classmates. You see these English speaking Canadian children may only be 11 years old, yet they are fully bilingual. Just consider the endless wonderful possibilities for global collaborative learning that are beginning to emerge. (It is truly exciting and inspiring... ed)
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The Beginnings Of Victoria BC Canada
by Cheri
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FORT VICTORIA
In 1840 George Simpson was the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. Back then Canada wasn't called Canada. It was called British North America. George Simpson was in charge of all Hudson's Bay territory. He decided to set up a depot on Vancouver Island. So he put the task in the hands of Chief Factor James Douglas who was located at Fort Vancouver (Washington). The new fort at Camosun on Vancouver Island was established in 1843 and was named in the honor of Queen Victoria.
The reason they had to move locations was because the original depot was at Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River is in what is now Washington State in the United States, and the border between Canada and the United States was being disputed. Fort Vancouver was likely to be in the United States. So they had to move the depot North.
In 1854 Douglas took a census and 232 people lived in Fort Victoria. Two fifths of them were under the age of 20. It had twelve stores and 21 houses. The main industries in Victoria were coal mining, logging, and fishing. Fur wasn't a major industry anymore. In 1844 they had collected only 400 beaver and otter skins. Victoria became known by the Native Peoples as a place where they could trade salmon and shingles, potatoes, cranberries, and fur for blankets, and ammunition. In 1846 five Royal Navy ships had stopped in at the Victoria harbour for supplies. Nearby Esquimalt Harbour soon became a Royal Navy base and has served as a navy base ever since. Today though, it is a Canadian Forces Base.
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