Greetings Water Ambassadors! I hope your school year is going well, if you have not thought/heard about it yet we are setting up another summer trip to Jasper so sign up now!!! $150 for 4 days and you earn 3 credits towards your high school diploma.
And let us not forget all those hungry mosquitoes! What will they do this summer without our tasty Edmonton blood???
Hello Water Ambassadors!
Just a heads up we will have a short VC meeting on November 2, 2012 from 2:15-3:15pm to reconnect and those students who had an opportunity to go to the Palisades this past summer will let the rest of us know what they did in Jasper.
See you all then!
Ms. Law
Hello everyone and welcome back! I trust you are all getting back to work and are ready to start thinking of water again.
I hope everyone had a fantastic summer, for those of you who had the opportunity to experience the Pallisades this summer the pictures and the work you have done looks amazing. Can't wait to hear more about it soon.
Ms. Law
Good afternoon everyone!!
I hope you are all enjoying the relatively mosquito free Edmonton......I just wanted to remind everyone to please make sure you have everything completed and handed in by 11:59pm tonight!!
I miss Jasper!!!
Have a great summer!!
Mr. Young
Welcome to the Palisades! Over the course of this week, we are going to go canoeing, kayaking, water sampling, build a survival hut, connect to students in Australia, blog, map, and much, much more...see you there!
Hello Water Ambassadors!
I believe most of you will have written all of your final exams and are just lost without something to do over the summer.
Fear not intrepid scholars ... for we have an opportuniy for you to keep your little neurons firing over the summer months until that first bell rings in August/September signalling the start of another wonderous year of learning!
SLISE Modules (run by Mr. Dublenko at QE) ... earn some credits and boost your resume!
Some of you will remember that Derek spoke about this opportunity already and he has posted some information on the discussions forum so check it out if you have not done so already.
You may contact Mr. Dublenko for more info via email: slise@epsb.ca
Have a great summer!
Why did the white bear dissolve in water?
Because it was polar.
Hello Water Ambassadors!
A new assignment has been posted for you to complete and share with everbody!
Check it out and start uploading to the gallery album!
I have also started up a tally board for assignment completion in the discussions page ... for every assignment that is completed you will earn a 
for your school! McNally, Ross Shep and QE both have already ... I think the other schools need to catch up!
Water is the driver of Nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Hello Water Ambassadors!
We will be meeting briefly on Friday June 8 from 2:15-3:15 pm via video conference to quickly reconnect before summer starts.
Keep checking into the TIGed site over the summer and lets share some of the water related activites we will be participating in during the summer months.
For those of you who will be participating in the amazing 5 days trip to the Palisades in Jasper during July take lots of pictures to share with the rest of us.
Get some rest and prepare yourself for exam week and have a fantastic summer!!!
Why is the letter T like an island?
Because its in the middle of water!!!
What a great evening! Awesome to see everyone again and to meet some of our counterparts on the other side of the world.
I hope this event gives everyone some inspirations and ideas as to what your next steps in the project will be.
Remember it is not too late to post your water image in the gallery!
See you soon and keep thinking about water!!!
"The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?" - Lily Tomlin
After many hours/days of work, we having finally reopened access to the website in China! a special welcome to all the Chinese schools. We look forward to reading about your great work!
Terry Godwaldt
Queen Elizabeth High School (Edmonton)
Great job on the submissions team! Keep the photos coming.
It was fantastic to meet everyone today and I look forward to working with all of you again soon.
Remember:
Digital VC Launch on May 15, 2012 (Tuesday) @ 6pm Ross Sheppard
I also am looking forward to seeing some of the great work your schools are doing! If anyone needs some help with the technology, please let me know.
Terry Godwaldt, terry.godwaldt@epsb.ca
Its been a while since we have seen each other!
Let's not forget about our East of the Mountains project!
Let us know what your school has been up too these past few months.
Post on your blog ... upload some photos to the gallery ... keep in touch.
We will meet again soon for some more planning!
See you all then.
Hello Everyone! Remember World Water Day is coming up soon!
March 22, 2012
http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/campaign.html
Principal's met at Ross Sheppard to debrief the February planning event. There continues to be a lot of excitement over this project and next steps were discussed to ensure that the project continues
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We have establish a steering committee of individuals that can coordinate the project
- CFI – Edmonton (Wei – or Stuart - EDGAR)
- Ron Bradley -Lead Principal
- Maureen Crawford – Ross Shep
- Terry Godwaldt – QE
- Pauline Law -ME
- Chris McNeil - Lillian
- Colby Bell– McNally
- We will identify a Shep teacher and a Chinese/English translator for the committee
- The steering committee will look at the timelines and establish role clarification for mentors, translators, CIE and maintain a web presence
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We will establish a student committee to operate at the school level
- Students will be responsible for sharing what is occurring at each school
- Students can have insight on the local level
- And we engage them using technology TIG website, to model what we are expecting to occur with our partners in China
Dear All,
10 days have come and gone since we all started our work together. I am hoping that your work has continued to grow.
In order to keep communication going, we are going to use two tools:
1) The Announcements: This is for announcement ideas/events that you want everyone to read
2) Skydrive: I have created a document for everyone to share what their collaboration plans are. By using this, we can all be inspired and kept up to date on what is going on at the different schools.
Just click on this link: https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=ed90acaa06ce3226&resid=ED90ACAA06CE3226!112&parid=ED90ACAA06CE3226!101&authkey=!AFfeppTfeOwKqYY
Looking to hearing about all your great work!!
Terry
McNally students and teachers have already booked hotels, cars and shopping tours in Yantai for next weekend.
yes, we do!
Posted by Aaron Dublenko on 8 Feb 2012
Hello students in Edmonton and Shandong. Welcome! This is our collaboration site.
8:00 – 10:00 visit twinned schools
10:30 @ Ross Sheppard Morning – check-in – quick look @ the public website
Mandarin text and voice over for T-I-G instructions
Break into 6 groups & determine your top 3 “ah ha’s” or discoveries that resulted from Tuesday’s work.
11:00 Blog Instruction
Create a group blog and share your top 3 “ah has” from the work you have done to date. Check out the other group’s blogs and leave a comment on at least ½ of the other blogs. You may also comment on other comments!
12:00 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 Gather for further instructional time regarding creating a virtual classroom – as you build your classrooms emphasize next steps (complete with timelines) and remembering your touchstones
3:00 – 4:00 View of what we achieved and what is next
HERE IS THE LINK TO OUR Skydrive DOCUMENT where all your ideas about projects are shared: https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=ed90acaa06ce3226&resid=ED90ACAA06CE3226!112&parid=undefined
Good Morning everyone!
I'm looking forward to another great day! Here are our goals for the day:
- Continue to build community
- Build on familiarity with Virtual Classroom communication tools
- Create a framework for projects (Dates, key ideas, etc.)
Here is the agenda for the day:
- Here is the link to yesterday's documents: https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=ed90acaa06ce3226&resid=ED90ACAA06CE3226!109&parid=root
Dear All,
Welcome to the first day of the EOTM project build. We had a wonderful trip to Jasper and are looking forward to the great work that will be done over the next three days.
Here is today's agenda:
- 9:00 -10:00 introductions, overview of project, and of planning sessions
- 10:00 - 11:00 introduction to TIG building profiles and blogs
- 11:30 - 12:30 opening session at Confucius institute (lion dance, music)
- 12:30 - 1:00 opening remarks
- 1:00 - 1:30 mentor water experts give overviews of their work
- 1:30 - 4:00 deep conversations with water experts regarding high school stdents doing projects regarding water issues
It is going to be a wonderful day as we start our truly exceptional work.
您好学生和教师, Dear Student and Teacher,
这是我们将要使用的网络课堂，用于参与和交流。
另外，你还可以刊登你的照片和信息，
Moving along the planning stages for our water week activities. Had our first meeting this Tuesday and we have some great students ready to promote and become "H2-O-ware". Our Mandarin students are also working to develop some great water activities too!
March 12 - 17 and International Water Day March 22
ME LaZerte has started planning for our water awareness week in March. Lots of fun and games planned around water.
