Camille and Seo Hyun tell you about a great music site.
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Checkout this great advice. Pivot fans need to know about this site.
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An awesome and enjoyable of a great website. A MUST listen for all middle school students. Thanks to Sid and Aaron for thier great energy.
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Again this year Carlos Celdran gave us an entertaining tour of the walled fortress of Intramuros. Carlos describes what happened to the Philippines during World War II.
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Check out the a game that’s let’s you know where your favorite junk food comes from!
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Philip and Ashwin review a great site that should not be missed! Spread the news!
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Mayor needed in the town of Electrocity! Check out our podcast for more information on how you can help change the world!
KC, Enzo, Alex
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One of our Grade Six students, Cristian, partipated in a robotics competition recently. Listen here to find out about the competition and how he did.
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Aastha, Shareen, and Asia give you a quick blast about the benefits of ClassBrain.com. Check it out!
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Should middle school students have laptops in school? Who should pay for them? Do they incease the level of student learning? Listen here for these questions and .more.
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Joseph and Kaysheeni hit the hallways and asked what members of the IS Manila community what they thought could be improved to make school life better for everyone. Listen to some great advice.
Maybe you will want to leave your own suggestion in a comment below!
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A recent owner of movie theaters in Britain has announced that he was going to ban popcorn from his theaters starting in September. Read the article here.
We take to the halls of ISM and ask students and teachers what they think of the idea.
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After starting this podcast as an experiment last October, I never imagined that I would still be working on it now. As the school year starts again, it promises to be bigger and better.
Some ambitious goals for this year include:
1) have more student input
2) have the RSS feed placed onto the student portal page
3) try for an even more eclectic mix of podcasts
Welcome to school year 2008-2009!
Over the summer many people in China have found the site and have download many of the podcasts. Let us know who you are and where you are from!
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Grade 7 students mash up some audio files from different styles and genres of music to become their own DJ’s. Here are three eclectic samples from Diedrea, Carlo,and a mystery performer. There is something here for everyone. Let them know what you think.
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Mr. Howrey and his students invade the Business Office and perform a awesome tune. Inspired by Stomp! the world-renowned rhythmic performance troupe, this group of students needs to be seen as well as heard.
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Mr. Ayling, our in-house fashion expert stops in for his commentary on the recent Middle School Fashion Runway.
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Many people in the ISM community are featured in the articles and many students focused on issues directly related to their lives as students at ISM. They have put much preparation and thought into their pieces of writing—hopefully you will have a chance to read what they have to say!
Thanks,
Mr. Wislang and Ms. Dingrando
Field trips are enjoyed by both teachers and teachers alike. However, often they are not treated as the great learning experience that they can and should be. Recently, as part of the Classroom Without Walls program, Grade Six students produced reflective and interpretative podcasts about their experiences. Have a listen, and if you like these, check out twenty more at ISM6 CWW.
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Teachertube, 
Middle School Survival, and 
Chem4kids.com
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This Podcast is about the website EDHEADS and Rabiah (me) is explaining about it from a radio station, CSN–Computer Studies Network.
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After a recent Middle School survey regarding homework, Sturgeon’s Locker Force spoke up about with their thoughts on the subject. Midway through a teacher drops by the room and gives her opinion. Overall, a very interesting, mature discussion. As you will hear, there is a wide range of thoughts on this topic.
What do YOU think?
What do your parents think?
Why do teachers assign homework?
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Recently Grade Eight students performed some Slam Poetry for their Language Arts classes. Listen here to some of the best performances.
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Best of YouTube http://bestofyoutube.podshow.com/feed.xml
Top 5 from CNET TV http://feeds.feedburner.com/cnet/top5
Discovery Channel Video Podcasts http://www.discovery.com/radio/xml/discovery_video.xml
National Geographic Video Shorts http://podcast.nationalgepgraphic.com/ng-video-shorts/
Howcast Food http://feeds.feedburner.com/HowcastFood
David Pogue: New York Times Technology search for David Pogue in at the iTunes store
If you subscribe to any of these podcasts and get them onto your MP3 player, show it to me. I am always interested in who interested in who is enjoying the podcasts! Copy the feed then a) in iTunes… click Advance Tab, then Subscribe to Podcast, paste OR a) go to the iTunes Store in iTunes and search by title
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Middle school students can encounter problems when researching on the web. This can lead to a wasting of a great deal of time and energy. Here are some very tips that should make the job much easier.
1. Spell keywords properly.
2. Choose strong keywords. For example if you were trying to determine what turtles eat, you may want to use turtle and diet as your keywords. Example: If you want to buy a car, don’t enter the keyword “car” if you can enter the keyword “Toyota.” Better still, enter the phrase “Toyota Dealerships” AND the name of the city where you live.
3. More keywords narrow your focus. Poodles black quiet “for sale” will result in fewer hits.
4. Keyword order counts. When using multiple keywords, the first word may carry more importance depending on the search engine.
5. Fine tune your keywords. If the number of results is too large, add keywords or change them.
6. Eliminate subtopics. Dogs –poodles, or you can eliminate words. This is using an option in the Advanced search of most search engines as well.
7. Use the Advanced Search option. This will give you more options. You can add or eliminate keywords or phrases and even search for specific document types such as PowerPoint and PDF files
8. Use “quotation marks.” This will lock in your words. “smelly turtles” will only fins sites that have the two side by side.
9. Choose the correct search engine. Use different search engines depending on your need. Understand search engines: general search engines for specific needs, directories for broad topics, metasearch engines to search many search engines at once. If you insist in writing and entire question such as, “What is the tallest building in the world?” then sites such as answers.com, or brainboost.com may be for you.
10. Go Old School, use books! Printed materials are often much easier and more efficient. Students often think the web is the only place to find information.
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At International School Manila, students are fortunate to have the opportunity to travel the world. At the end of one day, I quickly asked the students where they spent their holidays.
Check out the wide variety of responses.
Where did you spend your holidays?
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Just in time for the holidays coming the latest video from ISM teachers! Mr. Dingrando uses fellow teachers and even security guards to go round and round and round and round and round and round…
Keep an eye out for the clever filming and editing tricks that he uses.
Check out their previous videos on YouTube:
Thriller ,
Bebot ,
U Can’t Touch This
Enjoy!
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Another great free, legal tune!
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Welcome! In Grade Six Social Studies, we have recently watched a second video from Ignite Learning. This is an company that makes educational videos for students. I have recorded the audio portion for your your listening pleasure.
You can find the actual video here.
Better yet, visit the Ignite Learning channel on YouTube for many more samples. There are many cool ones! (It’s Ok if you learn something while watching and listening!) Ignite Learning Youtube channel
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I am just playing around with this cool site called Voicethread . It allows multiple users to comment on the same pictures. On the Voicethread site itself, you can add you own comments to the presentation and they would then be included.
Think of it this way. Your family goes on vacation. One person goes to VocieThread and uploads some pictures from the trip. The relatives, long gone back to their faraway homes, can all locate the same file on VocieThread adn leave their own recordings adn comments. In turn, all relatives can read and listen to comment sleft by others. This is one just idea. Do you have others?
Lots of potential here!
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Here are a few more cool podcasts!
One Minute How-To http://feed.feedburner.com/OneMinuteHowTo
Vinyl Café Stories http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/vinylcafe.xml
NPR: Classicool Kids http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510026
Vilioria.com http://feeds.feedburner.com/viloriapodcast
If you subscribe and have get them onto your MP3 player, show it to me. I am always interested in who interested in who is enjoying the podcasts!
Copy the feed then a) in iTunes.. click Advance Tab, then Subscribe to Podcast, paste OR a)paste into your Netvibes or iGoogle page Alternatively, you can go to the iTunes Store in iTunes and search by title.
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1. ISM6 http://ism6.podbean.com/feed/
2. Mowat 07/08 http://mowat0708.podbean.com/feed/
3. Grammar Girl http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/Subscribe.aspx
4. Why? The Science Show for Kids http://feeds.feedburner.com/whyscience
Copy the feed then a) in iTunes.. click Advance Tab, then Subscribe to Podcast, paste OR a)paste into your Netvibes or iGoogle page Alternatively, you can go to the iTunes Store in iTunes and search by title.
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Husan and Yuri put on a great performance! They play Larry King and King Tut respectively.
Be sure to find out some facts about the boy pharaoh. Thanks to all the ESL students!
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Check out the tune from the Middle School Assembly. BAND AID plays “Do the Bearcat” a song by David Wilcox.
Be sure to enjoy and sing along!
Check the lyrics to the song here.
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What a treat! Carlos treated us to a great walking tour within the walls of Intramuros, Manila’s former capital. Fort Santiago, San Agustin Church,and the Casa Manila were the major stops on our journey.
Carlos dazzled us with a ‘one minute history of Jose Rizal,” the role of the Spanish and the Chinese in the the Philippines, Pinoy architecture(or lack of it) and reasons for the “Halo-Halo” make-up of Filipinos.
If you enjoyed the tour and want to treat your friends or even your parents, then contact Carlos at his blog. He has a schedule posted there.
To learn more about Carlos, to get Mom and Dad to understand the things you told them about Carlos, read this.
Leave a comment for Carlos!
Ivan of Old Manila Walks was our enthusiastic guide for the Grade Six tour of the Manila Chinese Cemetery.
Listen here for some interesting, remarkable, and downright unique information about arguably the most interesting cemetery in the Philippines.
If you enjoyed the tour, check out Ivan’s site for other tours that he offers.
Be sure and leave a comment about your experience at the cemetery!
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ISM Grade Six students spend the day at a GK777 village in Taguig carrying concrete blocks to help build homes for the locals.
Listen to how they feel in the midst of work day.
Pictures to follow.
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Perhaps the best podcast yet! Rebecca has volunteered to speak with us about the Fire Mummies of the Philippines.
Grade Six students watched an intriguing National Geographic video about mummies found in the hot, humid climate of the Philippines. Rebecca reminds us on where they were found, which cultural groups were involved, and how they mummified their relatives. A great listen! 
Leave a comment about the places you most like to visit in the Philippines. Despite being a relatively small country, there are many great places to visit. Let us know your favorites!
Created by Eugene Villar.
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Another blast from the past. Jakhongir gives you his thoughts on this popular site.
Leave a comment!
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A blast form the past. This is actually the first recommendation recorded in class. It was lost in transit as we changed site hosts. Now it’s back for you to enjoy!
Here is the site that Erin recommends.
Leave a comment!
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After a long motorbike journey from Puerto Princesa over haggard roads and a two hour hike through the daunting “Monkey Trail,” we finally made it to Subterranean River.
Listen here to our hike to the river and our experience while in the impressive cave system. Listen to our guide speak about how about how it was formed, how the sea has an influence, descriptions of the different stalactite formations, and cool bat facts.
The Puerto 
Princesa Subterranean River is located about 50 kilometers north of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines. It is also known as St. Paul’s Subterranean River National Park. The entrance to the Subterranean River is located a short hike from little town of Sabang.
It features a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 km. navigable underground river. A distinguishing feature of the river is that it winds through a cave before flowing directly into the South China Sea. It includes major formations of stalactites and stalagmites, and several large chambers. The lower portion of the river is subject to tidal influences. The underground river is reputed to be the world’s longest.
The area also represents a significant habitat for biodiversity conservation. The site contains a full mountain-to-the-sea and has some of the most important forests in Asia.
It was inscribed by the UNESCO as a World Heritage Site on December 4, 1999.
Sample of one of the formations.
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Here is sample from the recent grade Seven annual Automated Wax Museum. Students bring to life historical figures fro m the time of the Renaissance, Reformation, and the Age of Exploration.
Renz performs as Lapu Lapu, the first national hero of the Philippines. Lapu Lapu is known as the first leader to resist Spanish colonization in the country. Renz speaks bout “his” and recounts the Battle of Mactan. He describes how he and his followers combat and kill the Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
Entertaining and educational!
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A great song presented by the MS Choir at the final assembly before the holidays.
If you know the name of the song and the artist, please let us know by posting information in a comment below.
“Grown-Up Christmas List” is the name of the song. Thanks to the Broussard Boom for the info.
Are you one of the singers? Leave a post and tell us more about the song, about rehearsing, and what you will be singing next.
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Artist: Uncle Seth Check out their cool music video on YouTube.
Lyrics (partial)
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To listen to my show
68% just listen on their desktop
And still stay in the know
You don’t iTunes either
But if you do that’s fine
Google “podcast” and download
Keep an open mind
Time shifting , walk away
Content on demand
There’s a growing online movement
You can capture in your hands
Speak your mind, spend some time
Express yourself digitally
Times change, you can too
There’s a brand new way to be seen
I have been investigating what music is “legal’ to use on podcasts. After investigating, I now understand that some music is considered “podsafe.” In short, if you are using certain music in podcasting or for your own non-commercial use, then the artists give you permission to use it.
Mr. Dilworth explains more on this topic of legal use at his blog. Check out the link on the lower left.
If you link this song, you can visit the site below to purchase it.
“If Every Day Were Christmas”
Listen to “If Every Day Were Christmas” on the podsafe music network.
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Friday night saw the ISM Boys Varsity Basketball team facing Brent. Trailing by as many as 22 points midway through the third, all hope seemed lost. By the end of the quarter the lead was trimmed to 12 and stayed that way until five minutes remained.
Listen to some of the sounds of the game as the Bearcats battled back to tie the game on the final shot of regulation time.
The comeback was capped off by the boys winning the game in overtime.
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Ms. Mohr explains how she uses iGoogle. iGoogle is very similar to Netvibes. It and Netvibes act as your “headquarters.” You set things up through RSS feeds so that new items posted on a website come to you, instead of you having to go many different websites every day.
If you are interested in understanding how RSS feeds work, watch this easy to understand video.
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Do you have dreams of being a doctor?
Do you like seeing what is inside the human body?
Are you looking for a unique, interesting site?*
This site may be for you.
WARNING! You may learn something!
(If you are squeamish or the site of blood bothers you, stay away from this site. Seriously.)
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John G. review this popular science site, BillNye.com
What other science sites would you suggest?
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Dominique gives an excellent review of BrainPop.com
She highlights many of the attributes that make this site very popular with Middle School students.
if you have gone to the site and have watched a great animation, tell us what it is via the comment link below.
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Daniel thinks that Factmonster.com is a great place to spend some time. Listen to what he has to say. Can he convince you to visit the site?
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Rebecca reviews MYSTERY.NET
She makes a strong pitch for this interesting site. You’ll be sure to visit the site after you listen!
Leave a comment for Rebecca.
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Spiderman is safe! Listen to the latest update on the location of Spanish class Spiderman. Let’s hope re recovers well. Leave a comment of your best wishes for webbed wonder!
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Check out what some attendees of recent Beyonce concert had to say . You may be surprised who went!
Did you go? What did you think?
Leave your thoughts in a comment.
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Check out how these teachers whe who use Skype.
Mr. Pethan is furious that his beloved Superman blow-up doll has gone missing from room. Hear the anger and frustration in his voice. Do you know where Spiderman is hiding?
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Listen to Ms. Vergel being interviewed by some Grade 8 students.
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I met someone today who is visiting and looking for strange creatures.
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Eric reviews SuperKids.com. You’ll find it very entertaining.
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Jay discusses World Almanac for kids.
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Students in Social Studies class comment on making maps of the world from their memory.
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r. Sturgeon tells the story of one crazy sturgeon!
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Joy and Seon Ah interview people in the hallway. They ask, “What has been your best experience at ISM?
Listen and then post a comment about your best experience.
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Mr. Howery’s Block D class give an impromptu concert one Friday morning.
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