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News Stories
| July 06 Video Conference between England and Germany |
John and Hans meet up via VC Click here to watch the recording of the meeting |
May 2006 |
You can follow these links to holiday scrapbooks and other items that have been submitted and also to some additional material from our visit to Italy A
holiday scrapbook from Tom (Germany) Two presentations from Norway |
| 19th Feb 2006 School Work Gallery |
I've set up a gallery to show some of the work
you have been doing for the project. From the main navigation buttons (to
the left) you can click on 'School Work Gallery' to see whats been submitted. Link to Gallery There's also some other items which you might like to look at - PowerPoint presntations etc which I can't show in the gallery. If you'd like to view these you can follow the link to www.stlukes.herts.sch.uk/comenius Don't forget to send me all your work. If you need to remind me to upload something you've already sent mail Graham at graham.harper@stlukes.herts.sch.uk but if you have lots of big files to submit please send them by CD! |
| 10th Jan 2006 Making the News Account for our project |
We've set up an account with the East of England
Broadband Consortium for the Come Together Project to be able to submit
News Stories. E2BN's 'Making the News' website works just like a commercial News agency and even produces a 'News Feed' just like the big news agencies - Reuters, the BBC, CNN etc using something called RSS So now, anyone in our project can produce news story which will be edited, approved and published automatically to the Web. From there the sky is the limit - your news feed could end up being fed automatically to a computer which subscribes to our feed anywhere in the world! Making the News Homepage You can see all our current news stories on the system here You can see or download a powerpoint instructions on how to submit a story here (If you submit a story for this project follow the 'regions' link to E2BN, then again to E2BN Schools and then click into 'Come Together - European Project' before finally clicking on 'News' and 'Submit' to send your story. Log in as 'Guest') |
| 10th Jan 2006 Project Picture Archive launched |
Following the demand for access to all the photographs
and other materials from the project we've decided to set up a large storage
area with open access for downloading. You can follow the links below to gain access to hundreds of photos, powerpoint presentations and movies - all the things which are too big to go in our general website. You can see all our pictures and other large filesize resources now by clicking here You can see all our pictures specificaly from our various meetings and visits by clicking here |
| 11th Dec 2005 Oil Depot blast shakes School |
Story by John Warwick St Lukes School is only about 3 miles from the explosion site. The school suffered some damage in the blast. We had 10 windows blown in. A lot of glass inside the school. Thankfully the explosion was on Sunday otherwise it could been a catastophe for the school and certainly pupils and staff would have suffered injuries or even worse. The Police and Health and Safety organisations have closed the school. No one was allowed in or near the school for several days. Not even work men, so the repairs could'nt even be done. Tomorrow (Tuesday 13th) will be the second day we have been told we cannot go to school.!!! I live some twelve miles from the school yet on Sunday morning at just after 6am I was woken by the blast. Me too - Ed It sounded so close. Windows rattled and closed doors were opened by the blast. My daughter woke and thought it was an earthquake!!! It was only when we turned on the television news that we knew what had happened. Many of our school children live near the blast area. They will have lots of stories to tell about their experiences. Thankfully their have been no deaths or even serious injuries from the blast. Thats a miracle! I attached some pictures that you may wish to use with your pupils. Here is a link to a video clip of the disaster BBC News And here is another link to more pictures Gallery See this story in Making the News Comenius Making the News The fire was finally put out late on Thursday but we were not able to re-open the school before the end of term - Ed 
  
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| 8th Dec 2005 Making the News update |
St Lukes have been participating more in the
E2BN consortium 'Making the News' Project. You can see all our news stories
now at Making
the News |
| Oct 2005 Italy Visit |
From the 11th to the 16th of October we all visited
the beautiful area of Italy where Fides's schools are. Fides had arranged
together with here colleagues a very busy programme. We learned a lot about
the geography and culture of the area and we were also able to sample some
of the local produce. Everyone at the schools we visited had made a huge effort to put on a special show for us and we also met with local important people and visited churches, museums and restaurants. The scenery was fantastic and so were the people we met at the schools, the functions and even the local dance at the hotel. The weather was quite kind to us too although I think we all now understand how much the weather in the mountains could affect school life! Thank you Fides for such a fantastic programme. I have borrowed some web space from St Lukes School to store some of the photographs. http://www.stlukes.herts.sch.uk/comenius/visits_archive/Italy If you would like to add your photos for Italy or any of the activities to the archives send me a CD - Graham |
| 2nd Oct 2005 New Message board Launched |
We've set up a new message board which has a
general section, and a section for Pupils and one for Adults. When you go
to the site you need to register and then I will put you in the correct
group so that you see the correct content. This is so that adults can discuss
the project etc in general and pupils can exchange messages with their friends
in other countries. Contact Graham if you need more help. Click here
to visit the new board. |
| July 2005 New content for Redbourn local environment |
We've added some more content for the Redbourn
Local environment pages. Check out the Art Gallery produced by our Year
7 pupils and also a great little film to download - St Lukes School present...
Europe. Click here
and follow the links. Look at the John Consables! |
| 3rd June 2005 All Five Countries Link up! |
At a 'flash meeting' requested by Fides to mark
the last day of the Italian term all 5 countries involved in the project
managed to link up together. Click here to see the video archives page. |
| 1st June 2005 Sports Day at Kalkreuth |
Hans has sent us s presentation and some pictures
from the schools sports day. Click here
to see them. |
| 25th May 2005 Visit to Germany |
We all visited Germany at the end of May and
took part in some fantasic activities organised by the Kalkreuth School.
One of the things we did was to experiment a little more with 'Flash meeting' and try to make contact back to our own schools. One of the flash meetings was recorded and you can see the results by looking at the video archives log. Click here to see the video archives page. |
| 20th May 2005 Making the News! |
Our Come Together Project has been featured
by the E2BN 'Making the News' website. E2BN - the controlling body which
co-ordinates and provides Internet and Electronic media services to all
schools in the east of England.E2BN has featured the upcoming visit to Germany
on its News Site
Making the News. You can visit the main site or go straight to our news
story by clicking
here.
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| 5th May 2005 Newsletter 1 |
Newsletter 1 is now available. Please click
here
to download it. |
| 2nd May 2005 News item from Hans at GS Kalkreuth |
I would like to report on our successful flashmeeting
with John and his pupils. Last Wednesday (27th April) John and I had arranged a flashmeeting between his pupils, who are going to Germany and their German hosts. All said their names and then the pupils talked about their hobbies, pets and families. It was very nice and we understood each other perfectly. We have planned the next flash meeting on next Wednesday at b9.30 UK-time. |
| 8th March 2005 Great News on Internet Video Conferencing |
We have found another way to allow us to do video
conferencing via the Internet The following has been submitted by Chris (Mail Chris) Hello everyone, At last we have found a successful way of Video-Conferencing between the schools in the 'Come Together, Right Now' project. This involves using a website and a system called 'Flashmeeting' All you need is a webcam (with microphone) and an internet connection (preferably broadband.) I have produced a document giving basic instructions on how you can try Flashmeeting. Graham will post this document on the website. (DONE!) Download now If you would like to try Flashmeeting, please read these instructions and then email me with a time you can video-conference, and we will try and link up with you. See you soon! Chris And the good news is that this works with more than two people at once! John will be arranging a video conference using this method for Wednesday evenings. Make sure your PC has 'Flash' installed, as described in the notes from Chris - Graham - Download instructions |
| 8th March 2005 German and England have a video conference |
St Lukes School have been experimenting with
something called flash meeting and managed to get a successfull sound and
video link up working today with Germany. The sound was very clear and after
a few initial problems we managed to get pictures working too - and had
a good conversation! This was the second time this week we had linked with Germany. Yesterday John Warwick (Deputy Head at St Lukes) said :- Today I had an excellent vc using msn with Friedrich. This week Friedrich has purchased a web cam for the school and we succesfully used msn vc facility. my home to his school. Good chat discussing the trip to Germany in May and the publication of the first poject newsletter. The school has a isdn line and progress is in hand to establish its number so we are able to contact him using isdn. Another test will take place on Tuesday. Watch this Space for more news! |
| 1st March Paco Visits St Lukes |
St Lukes School was visited this week by Paco,
the Head from Spain. Full story is on the homepage |
| 23rd Jan New Website goes live |
Ok folks - now we have the logo I guess its about
time I did some more work on the website. Let me know what you think and
any problems you have! Graham - mail webmaster |
| 20th Jan Italy Wins Logo Competition! |
The votes are in and Italy beats Plaistow by
one vote! The full results are shown here. |
| 20th Jan Steve and Graham Link up |
There was a further link up this week with Steve
and Graham. We tried to use the camera - but a dial up link is really too
slow for that. Come on Steve - get yourself on broadband!
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| 19th Jan Successful voice link up with Italy |
There was a successful voice link between Italy
and Plaistow this week. Project leader Steve Potter said "It was amazing
- just like being in the same room". That's not bad when both parties were
using a standard dial up connection. This is thought to be the first time that we have achieved a successful voice link with the Italian project team. |
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