Blog de Lorraine (11)

I have created a voicethread to share with Skipper Rich Wilson. If you would like to add your holiday greetings in your native language, I've attached the thread here. Thanks very much. Have a wonderful holiday!
http://voicethread.com/share/293360/
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In Week 3 of the sitesALIVE! Vendee Globe program with Skipper Rich Wilson there is a discussion of the Equator crossing ceremony. In the sitesALIVE! Teachers Guide on page 16, the author writes "The purpose of the ceremony is to be blessed by King Neptune, mythical ruler of the oceans.

During the ceremony, sailors typically dress oddly or cover themselves in a variety of

unpleasant materials (old food, marine mud, etc.) in an effort to “appease” King Neptune and

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This morning I received a Skype call from Skipper Rich Wilson. He was testing to be sure that he would be able to connect with race organizers at sea. My students and I followed his voyage from NYC to Melbourne, AU in 2001; from Hong Kong to NYC in 2003 and from Plymouth, UK to Boston in 2004. It is with great excitement that I await following his journey around the world in… Continuer

Here is a voicethread that we will share with Skipper Rich Wilson, our teacher at sea, who will sail the Vendee Globe. Feel free to add your good wishes to this thread in any language.
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Some of my students created Scratch sailing projects based on the Vendee Globe sailboats. They remixed music in garageband and imported their files into their Scratch script. http://www.scratch.mit.edu is a free application.



If you click on the graphic it will take you to the student's project on the Scratch website.…





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Students created short projects in Scratch based on the Vendee Globe voyage. They used GarageBand to remix music to create mp3 files. If you click on the image, it will link you to the Scratch site to see the project . Scratch is a free application. http://www.scratch.mit.edu If you design a sailboat, we'd enjoy seeing it!…



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Our school is located in ""Newton, Massachusetts, USA.



Here are some images of Cambridge, MA and Boston, MA. Both of these cities are nearby.





Here are some of the students who will be following the voyage with you.

http://voicethread.com/share/226735/…

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