Please take a quick minute to fill out this short survey to help us improve our school and our service.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XCHPG3H

Thinking of working in the Tar Sands ??

If you have thought of finding a job in the tar sands of Alberta, you may want to check out Emile Beatty's Science 10 project for some background information. He makes a great presentation on the negative aspects of oil production in Canada.

Water pollution and fish from murfinz

Vision and Belief

This is a Wordle for the Northern Lights School Division Vision and Belief statements

Words appear larger if they occur more times in the text that has been entered to make the picture. In this case it is interesting to see how the words "Community" and "Northern" stand out.

Strap yourself in....

EDCENTRE.CA  LIVE is coming to a computer near YOU!

We will be gathering in the edcentre.ca LIVE room (February 12 at NOON) to have some fun, celebrate the beginning of the next semester and some amazing accomplishments.

There will be food at the LIVE school sites, student talent from at least two locations, a Tae Kwan Do Demonstration by a 5th degree Black Belt, Canadian National Gold Medal winner, door prizes for participants, AND a draw for a Samsung Tablet. If you have completed an online class since September 2013, you could WIN.   

Click on the EDCENTRE.CA LIVE link, Noon, February 12 (enter as a guest)

Steven Segal can predict the future!!

Mitch Morin brought to my attention a speech by Steven Segal at the end of one of his movies. In his Science 10 course, Mitch has been studying Sustainability of Ecosystems and discovered Segal's speech from 1994!! That's 20 years ago!! Can Steven Segal predict the future? Watch and decide.

An "Average" Story

Have you ever told a story?
Think about the the kind of expression needed to hold the interest of a child. Think about the important pauses, the element of surprise, and of course, the "scary" parts. How do you draw in your audience? A good storyteller isn't a story "reader", a good story teller "tells" the story.
One of the tasks in exploring children's literature in our ELA 20 class is to re-tell a story and record it.
Natahsa Prokopchuk decided to write her own story and share it.

I think it should be illustrated and published. What do you think?

Kona and Jason recently got to talk Native Studies with some bright eyed and bushy tailed kids from Hawaii. They are from Kamehameha School on the main island of Hawaii where it was a sunny 28 degrees. The full video can be seen here.