We went down to the Waihi Skate Bowl as one of the activities on ‘Wheelie Day’ Cool Kids Afternoon. Thanks Mrs Steele and Mr McGougan for transporting and being with us at the bowl. Here are some slides of the action.

We also got some video footage using the ‘Flip Viewer’ so here it is.

Thanks Todd for taking us out to the Waihi Beach Skate Bowl here is movie of the action, the movie was edited by Regan, Kalem, Mitchell, Beau and Travis.

I thoroughly enjoyed my experience at ULEARN in Christchurch during the holiday break at the end of term 3. Educators from New Zealand and overseas got together for keynote presentations and breakouts on the use of ICT in schools. Below is a short video of some of my experiences at ULEARN.

DK presented to teachers the ideas behind the way social media can be used by schools, see the video below.

Travis M travelled down to Gisborne for the ‘New Wave Primary Schools’ Surf Champs’ on November 14-15th, he competed in the Boys heat 2 semi finals Travis placed 3rd. In the final of the boys division he took fifth and is in fifth in the overall  rankings in his division in Surf NZ competitions. Here is a video of Travis talking about the competition in Gisborne.

Here’s some video footage of the comp.

Here are some slides from the surf2surf.com website of the competition, three photos feature Travis.

Room 3 students are sharing books they’re reading on the http://waichat.wikispaces.com/ website. This site has been set up by Simon and Lizette of Waikino and Beach Schools to encourage literacy activities using IT. Please add your comments about our book reviews.

Charlie has been trying some live streaming TV with Ustream, unfortunately our school’s upload bandwidth is not really fast enough for streaming video content. We need to upgrade our internet account for this to allow upload speeds of least 700 kbs or higher.

It’ll blow your socks off – check out some of our video footage.

Check out some of our East School TV (EasterlyTV) videos using the embedr playlist below.

During ‘Wheelie Day’ a group of Waihi East School BMX and Mountain Bike riders went to the Waihi Beach BMX track for some fun. Take a look at the video below to see us in action.