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We hope you had a great summer holidays and are ready for a new year of learning.  Mr. Bright has been very busy getting many new computers and networking hardware up and running.  Please use OxleyLearning to connect with your teachers and rich content.

Year 10 are participating in Australian Business Week. Here are links to the Simulation and video resources.

Here they ARE – 2009 ABW Videos!

• eCologne / SHeCologne
• The Kensington
• Kestrel
• The Regent
• Prestige
• Orchard Enterprises
• Seven

Year 8 Music students have been working with a Web site building tool called Wix.com . Here is a sample of their impressive work.

• http://www.wix.com/music555666/music-project
• http://www.wix.com/hhjms08/Music-2000s
• http://www.wix.com/fartfairy/Music-Assignment
• http://www.wix.com/cornellious/A-Decade-In-Rock-Music
• http://www.wix.com/faulknerj/SSJ
• http://www.wix.com/rockhistory/rock-history-assignment
• http://www.wix.com/jazziegee/1960

The following video was made by Steph, Morgan and Paige, students in Ms. Warda’s Year 10 History class.  It looks at how the media portrayed the Vietnam War.

Mr. Freeman’s Year 8 Geography class will be exploring issues related to global inequality through the new Digital Citizens Web site.  Specifically the challenges include new ways to measure quality of life (through interactive maps), the Millennium Development Goals and ways to Take Action.

This is the first class to engage with issues related to what it means to be a good Global Citizen in a digital era.

You may have seen Pattie Maes’ TEDTalk on the Sixth Sense. This technology is currently feasible for $350 (less than the price of a topflight phone)

What will school be like when as many students have a 6th Sense device as currently have mobile phones?

Watch this bit of video from YouTube and then add a comment based on the questions below.

1. What dreams do you have about your future?

 

2. Is there anything you do for fun that you would not want everyone you know to see? Think about future employers, parents, grandparents, your husband or wife.

 

3. Do you put any of your dreams at risk with current friends, online social networks, camera phones, etc? Is there anything you want to do differently so that things come out the way you’d like?

 

The Oxley College ICT Committee is collecting information about how families and students use technology and the Internet at home. This will help as we plan for future integration of ICTs in courses.

The Family survey is located here and should include the combined input of all computer-using members of each family.

The Student survey is located here and should be completed by each student from each family who attends Oxley College.

Completion of the surveys may be anonymous or you may contribute specific insights or suggestions from your perspective.

We appreciate your participation very much.

On Monday, 22 June, Year 4 and 5 students from local primary schools will spend the day at Oxley College engaged in extension and enrichment activities.  We call this OPALS – Oxley Primary Achievers Learning Summit.

Our Year Ten students will serve as learning facilitators and tutors.

Please take a look around the OPALS Web site and explore the activities.

Download the exam schedules

Week 8A

• Monday & Tuesday
• Wednesday & Thursday
• Friday

Weeks 9 & 10

• Trials

or download the whole timetable as a spreadsheet