Uijeongbu Science High School

Wow, teaching and learning overseas has been a fantastic experience. I have met so many great people, done so many new things and blogged in many different ways. Semester 2 looks like being another great discovery time for me. I have found a new type of blog. Perfect for teachers. A blog where you can set up your own classes inside the teacher blog and really take control – is this to good to be true? We shall soon find out – check out our semester 2 blog at http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=97161.

We go on Summer Vacation from 19th July until the 20th Aug.

Our students hope to make some digital stories or mini movies but first we must look at file size and type to make sure we can upload our movies to our blogs. Here is a mini movie about Science Day, both of these files are the same movie but they are of different quality:

scienceday-low.wmv (673KB)

science-day-high.wmv (higher quality – 1951KB)

These digital stories were made using windows movie maker but the file size was 7,500KB when we saved it in movie maker. This file size is too large to upload to our blog hence we needed to use another program to lower the file size. The program we used is freeware and simple to use. It is called “Stoik Video Converter 2.1″ http://www.stoik.com/downloads/.

Students at Uijeongbu are invovled in some amazing things. You can get to know my students by clicking on one of my classes on the RHS (Emus, Kangaroos, Koalas, Platypus or Wombats). My classes will be trialing sound and video over the next couple of months and we hope to run a digital stories project in September. If you would like to be part of our digital stories project the please leave a comment at this post.  We will first test different formats of sound and video on our blogs to help us get started. Looking forward to working with other classes around the world.

Our first digital story our-school-test.wmv

TEST – looking-forward.mp3

Last week we were very lucky to have a visit from our sister/brother school in Taiwan. They shared some of our science classes and came to our sports day. We had a great time together and learnt lots of things from each other. Our common language was English. Speaking English was often difficult for many students and teachers but it gave us the opportunity to get lots of real practice in speaking English.

Welcome to our Taiwan friends:
 

Lets have fun:
       

Sharing classes together:
   

Sports day:
     

On the 20th April 2007 grade 1(year 10) and grade 2 (year 11) students celebrated Science together by spending the day enjoying many organized activities such as Science quizzes, bridge building and dropping eggs from the 3rd floor.

Our school is a Public Science High School in Uijeongbu, South Korea. Uijeongbu is situated just north of Seoul. The very efficient Seoul Subway system extends to the Uijeongbu area. There are 230 students that attend our school and they are all very gifted and talented students that have achieved very high marks in Mathematics and Science. Although our school is a Public school students live on campus in the student dormitory during most days of the week.
Here are some photos of our school.
   

Students will produce a virtual tour of Uijeongbu Science High School.