Thursday, January 24, 2008

Mobile phone voice cast

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Mobile phone voice cast

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Photos

Hello,

I am now in Khon Kaen.

I will put up some videos a bit soon. In the meantime you can view photos from yesterday on flicker here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/50748254@N00/sets/72157603775802077/

Yesterday was truly amazing to visit all the schools. Everyone was so kind. Thank you so much, I look forward to staying in touch. All the best, John

More to come....

Keep watching with space and http://rong-rien.wikispaces.com/ over the next little while as there is lots more to be posted... photos, films, audio files... I am having problems to find an internet cafe in Korat that allows me to put in the thumb drive with all that lovely content on it... so please stay tuned as it will be coming soon... In the mean time, please look at the content that has been put up and using it to contect with the schools by commenting and using your Gmail log in.

Please email rong.rien@gmail.com to get invited to this site so that you can add more photos.

Good luck eveyone and we will see you online soon!

Monday, January 21, 2008

Banratpattana School



Hello everyone and welcome to Banratpattana School. Our school is a primary school located in SoengSang district, Thailand. We have lovely students who are interested in learning English. If you want to share your language experiences with us, don't hesitate to leave your messages.

Banratpattana School

Trish is teaching the students, head sholders knees and toes in english. Then the class is teaching her in Thai

Sukphaiboonwiriyawittaya School Hipcast

English Teachers at the school reflect on the school and using the internet

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Sukphaiboonwiriyawittaya School

This is Sukpaiboonwiriyawittaya school. It 's a small school with 409 students and 24 teachers. Our schooi is famous in Thai Subject. Our student won the first prize in poem compettition.

Mobile phone voice cast

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Mobile phone voice cast

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Banratpattana School Hipcast

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Nonsomboon Wittaya School

School Director talks to us about the internet in the school.

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Nonsomboon Wittaya School

This is our school Nonsomboon Wittaya School. It is a secondary school. There are about 1000 students and 36 teachers. Our school has a very beautiful campus. We have got many awards from competitions, such as sports, poem, music, etc.



Mobile phone voice cast

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Wangnamkheawpittayakom School

  • We just finished a delicious lunch. Now we are at this school of 500 high school students. The Director Mr Manoo is very keen on technology. He see it bringing the price of education down through elearning opportunities. At the moment the school only uses the internet to access information not to share, but this is changing.

Soengsang School hipcast

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Soengsang School


This is Soengsang School. Look! The environment is really good. Our school is quite big. There are about 1,900 students and 65 teachers. We need more teacher here. Our school far from Korat about 90 Km.

Mobile phone voice cast

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Kornburi School



Welcome to Kornburi School, Nakhonratchasima, Thailand. This school is about 1,800 students and 70 teachers. Our students used to study in abroad 3-5 years ago as the AFS exchange students, and 2 students have studied in France and Holland becuase they got the scholarship from the goverment. We are so please to welcome you all the time. Plsease visit us if you have chances.

Konburi School Hipcast

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Visit to Somidejpratheerayanmunee School


We have been welcomed by the director Mr Sompis Pinjantuek who is very keen on ICT in his school. He has created an open access IT centre where students can come and study. He believes in self directed learning and sees the internet as providing access to additional learning beyond the lessons given by teachers. The audio blog below is from the school.


Mobile phone voice cast

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Orapim witaya School

hello this is my school and my friends. I am very happy when I studying here . welcome to visit my school is in Khonburi Nakhonratchasima Province. Thailand SAWADDEE KA .

Orapim witaya School Hipcast

A student from the school tell us a little bit about her school

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Visiting the 1st school

We arrived our 1st station around 10 am. It has 6 classrooms altogether and about 400 students here.

Pioneer turtle group

Mobile phone voice cast

From Trish and John in the field in Thailand

MP3 File

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Friday, January 18, 2008

Welcome to our shared learning space



5 of the flnw team, teachers from 15 schools around Khorat and Students and staff for SUT have all come together at SUT to learn and share about social computing and learning.

We have used Wikispaces, Voice Thread, Gmail and blogger so far today... I wonder what will happen this afternoon.