Setting up Systems and Satellite Phones

Shahin collecting organisms  

On Tuesday we were privileged enough to talk to a student explorer visiting The Auckland Islands on HMNZS OTAGO with the Sir Peter Blake Trust. Shahin Najak is from Lynfield College and she won one of only 14 places on the voyage, because of her huge involvement with her school and fighting to protect the environment. Shahin spoke to us by Satellite Phone from the ship on Tuesday morning. It was a static connection but it was excellent to hear her voice and hear what they have been doing down there. We asked her some questions and she spoke to her mother who works at our school. We also posted some questions on their website which they answered for us. It has been very interesting checking out all their blogs and photos. 

http://www.sirpeterblaketrust.org/sub-antarctic-voyage-2016 

"It is so cool having a chrome book  because you can do home work on it and R9 gets our own class site. It was fun calling Shahin but we could not hear her that well." from Travis

During the week we have managed several different tasks on the chromebooks, including creating new passwords, copying files, and organising them into folders in our drive, then completing the set work, signing in and out and finding our work again! The students could write their comments for the Class Blog on a shared document.   

"It is so cool having a mini laptop because we get to take it home at the end of February. We are able to create our own password. R9 has a class blog + a gold fish, we got a phone call from Shahin Najak & we got to go swimming with Rm8 after morning tea. New digital class rooms are awesome and these are cool comments when everyone is writing together." from Tau

I am really lucky to have a chromebook. The thing I like about chromebooks is doing the All About Me work. This year has been a blast because of the learning we have done on our chromebooks, it has been so cool, Room 9 is the best class to be in and CHROMEBOOKS are THE BEST! by Kayci

Words and phrases taken from comments written by Room 9 students excited 

about learning on Chromebooks.