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September 17th, 2007

Hello Visitors.

We are Room 29 at Balmoral School, Auckland, New Zealand. We are a Year 5 and Year 6 class and we are enjoying the beginning of our journey into blogging. Soon we will all have our own blogs and you will begin to see some pictures, links to our school work and more. You can even subscribe to our RSS feed by selecting the ‘Comment RSS’ link on one of our toolbar menus - please do, as we love to share our ideas and thoughts.

 We are very interested in your comments and feedback about our site so far…please leave a message and include where you are from.

 Thanks!

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30 Responses to “* Visitors click here”

  1.   pcoutas on September 18, 2007 5:21 pm

    Hi guys!

    I’m a teacher in Western Australia and I’m exploring the blogosphere at the moment. I came across your page because it was featured as a “blog of the hour” on Edublogs.org’s main page.

    I just had to leave a comment saying that not only is the design fantastic, but the content is also just as good :)

    Well done!

  2.   room29space on September 18, 2007 5:34 pm

    Hi to you in W.A!

    Thanks for visiting our site and we are glad that you enjoyed our developing ideas and hope you can see our new learning.

    If you have a site of your own or make one soon, let us know as we would be really happy to visit.

    If you wish to get in contact leave your e-mail here and I will get back to you soon - I would delete your mail address from the blog :)

    Take care - Thanks for visiting!

  3.   ladyhistory on September 19, 2007 8:24 am

    Hello. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintence. We are four teachers divided into two classes from Brooklyn, New York. Our students range from 10 - 13 years of age. Our students are from grades 6 and 7. The four of us are very eager to be involved in a on-line exchange of ideas and customs on an inter-contintental plane that can only exist through the internet. Our class is very excited about the possibilities of this interaction. We enjoyed viewing your site and look forward to interacting with you as part of our classroom initiative. Please respond to us at NTastic4@gmail.com.

    We look forward to helpful comments and suggestions from your students on our site.

  4.   Lyndsay on September 24, 2007 6:47 pm

    Hi again,

    This is Tessa’s Nana again. Please explain to me the point of blogging, and how it works. I was at school when there was no TV, let alone computers, mobile phones etc. so it is all a bit of a mystery to me. I would like the PUPILS to answer this question rather than your teacher or other adults!!

    I look forward to your thoughts and explanations.

    NO 1 Nana

  5.   Jean on September 26, 2007 4:03 pm

    I think this web site is terrific and am very impressed with all of you who have written into it. Don’t know whether you can accept emails from Australia but you should know we can read it here too.

    Regards Jean

  6.   room29space on September 26, 2007 4:08 pm

    Hi Jean - Could you please tell us a little about yourself and how you came to visit this site. Do you have your own blog site that we can visit?

    We can definetly accept e-mail from anywhere in the world and it is a pleasure to know that you have visited from Australia.

    Thanks,
    Room 29

  7.   Olga on September 27, 2007 6:04 pm

    Hello, the most amazing class! :)

    I’m Olga. I just want to write couple of words here, because I feel very happy that I found this nice website! Just two days ago I had no idea that somewhere, far away - in New Zeland - there is a class, full of very interesting young people…

    Well done, guys!!! Hello from Russia! :-D

  8.   Scottish Friend on September 28, 2007 6:37 am

    Hi,

    You people certainly like commenting on your blog. Well done.

    How old are year 5 and 6? We are Primary 6 in Aberdeen in Scotland and we are 10 years old.

  9.   Jennifer on September 29, 2007 9:43 am

    Hi Scottish friend,

    I think that’s a question for my teacher to answer, but I’ll answer it anyway.

    some year 5s are 9, the majority is 10 which is year 5 and 6 and very few is 11 which is only for year 6s. (I’m 11) see you around!

    -Jennifer

  10.   jayden500 on September 29, 2007 12:59 pm

    Hello guys from Room 29! I am a student of a school in Te Awamutu int the Waikato region. Come have a look at our blog after the holidays, it’s http://room3tai.edublogs.org. Hope you come and visit our blog and have a great holiday! If you would like to visit my blog just go to http://jayden500.learnerblogs.org. We have been on the blogging journey for quite a while now!

  11.   Heather Jacombs on October 6, 2007 8:27 pm

    Hi I am Heather and I used to go to Balmoral. I am friends with Tessa. I now live in SINGAPORE (very hot)I now go to DOVER COURT. It is a great school.

    I think your blog is B.R.I.L.L.I.A.N.T. I could never have done it.

  12.   Tessa on October 7, 2007 6:12 pm

    Hi Heather!

    Can you tell us a little more about Singapore? Write it in the ‘What does culture mean to you? section.

    From your friend Tessa
    Ps thanks for visiting the site!

  13.   Jennifer on October 7, 2007 7:12 pm

    Hi Heather!

    I remember you! You used to play with Tessa.

    -Jennifer

  14.   Ella on October 8, 2007 3:50 pm

    Hi Jayden,
    My name is Ella.
    Did you know that my dad grew up in Te Awamutu as well.
    He also went to Te Awamutu int. HOW COOL IS THAT!!!!!.

    From Ella

  15.   Brittany on October 14, 2007 5:38 pm

    Hi heather

    Brittany here -
    Hope you are having a great time over there, I just want to know - What is it like going to school over there compared to here?

    Brittany

  16.   Oliver RD on October 14, 2007 6:25 pm

    Hi Lyndsay,

    Blogging can be used as a way to let people talk to each other, or they can be used to gather information from people, or they can be used as a school site to teach people who cant reach school, or just for homework.

    On a blog site you can leave comments, or just browse what other people have said. Sometimes you can watch a movie, or look at a photo, maybe play a game. This blog site is very big and has a lot of comments. You should look at the All Stars site, it is endless!

    Here is their site, or you can find it on the main page: http://allstars.edublogs.org/

    From Oliver RD

  17.   room29space on October 14, 2007 7:18 pm

    Thanks Oliver.

    Thats a nice explanation.

    It is also another way to explore new ideas and express yourself and of course to build a sense of community for you as a learner, for your family and relations to gain insight into our class learning and for us to realise that the world really is accessible in these new ways. I hope you have taken the time to check out the Web 2.0 links on the Information page.

    Oliver - be proud of yourself. You are doing some great work! Keep it up.

  18.   Denise Juler on October 19, 2007 7:32 pm

    Hello from Brisbane, Australia Room 29,
    Thank you for the comment on our class blog. We are a Year 6 class in a small P-7 school. This year we have been “Learning to Blog and Blogging to Learn.” We have all created our own blogs to share the things we learn at school. We are also Blog Buddies with our Year One class and they have their own blogs too.
    This week we are going on school camp to an island we can see from our school so that is very exciting. There will be lots on our blogs about camp when we get back. When we get back we’ll try to help with your teamwork project.
    We’ll put a link to your blog on ours.
    Mrs Juler and 6J

  19.   Human Rhino on October 21, 2007 4:18 pm

    I think talking to people in New Zealend is cool.It would be great to have some of you guys as friends.As you see I am from America and is 100,000 miles away

  20.   room29space on October 21, 2007 6:19 pm

    hi my name is nero and I am in year 6 in brisbane australia. Nice blog I wonder is you are the most amazing class in the universe. My blog is on my class page http://www.6j07.blogspot.com/ so take a look and try to leave a comment thanks.

    I moved this from ‘How can they work as a team?’…Andrew

  21.   Room 4 on October 28, 2007 8:10 am

    Thanks Andrew for your awesome comment for Room 4. I cant wait for them to get here so I can read it to them. They are year 1 and 2 children and we are very new to this so any comment we get is pretty exciting. I am looking forward to having a better look at your blog too. Keep up the great work!!!
    Mrs Behague (Teacher in Room 4)

  22.   Bill Qualls on November 6, 2007 3:01 pm

    Hello, I am a graduate student in Instructional Technology at Northern Illinois University. Our professor has directed us to your site so we can see how blogs can be used in education. Just thought you might like to know you are being used as an example.

  23.   room29space on November 6, 2007 5:47 pm

    Hi Bill,

    On behalf of Room 29…Thanks!

    It is an honor to be recognised in such a way. I hope you and the other students at your university have found some inspiration here.

    Once again - Thanks for visiting.

  24.   mpb on November 28, 2007 4:52 pm

    Kia ora! from the antipodes.

    Have you listed yourselves at the edublogses forum under My Blog is…?

    CoJ

  25.   Jennifer on November 28, 2007 7:38 pm

    Hello mpb, I’m not too sure about what you mean, but I hope you like our site :)

    -Jennifer

  26.   mpb on November 29, 2007 12:45 pm

    The forum at edublogs.org makes it easier to find you from like-minded classes and teachers.

    Thanks for your entry–
    http://edublogs.org/forums/topic.php?id=620#post-6088

  27.   Hamish on December 13, 2007 7:29 am
  28.   Mrs C and Company on December 23, 2007 6:51 pm

    A great site - I will keep an eye on how it develops in the future. As an Australian grade 5/6 teacher I have just farewelled my 2007 class; it’s sad because they were great. But next year I will have another group of wonderful young minds to work with and we will chronicle our adventures on our blog: http://mrsc2902.edublogs.org. Come and visit!

  29.   David Hanna on January 7, 2008 9:35 pm

    Hi Andrew
    you have done an awesome job here!
    Do you have an email address and is it possible to ask you a couple of questions about how you managed this?

    thanks
    Dave

  30.   charles worboys on April 3, 2008 1:24 pm

    Room 29

    your blogspace is a creation of the entire group. I am learning how to use blogs in my school. Any advice would be used for the common good.

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