Wild Gardens of Lemuria

Does anyone remember endlessly playing with “Fuzzy Felt”
as a child?
Here is a wonderful wild garden animation made of Fuzzy Felt on
You Tube.  Enjoy!
(copyright Imogen Crest 2008.)

Having only started with web 2.0 over the last 5 months, I am really amazed at what a great resource it is for learning and teaching. A new enthausiasm has returned to both classroom teaching and the students themselves.
Students have really taken to blogging. They love going home at night, taking photos with their digital [...]

In September, these giant sunflowers turned their faces to soak up the sun, bright yellows and greens. In October, after the first frost, this sunflower field looks a little wild. In another month or two, snow will cover all but the flower heads. Madison. Wisconsin, USA.
photographed by barbara © 2007

13 10 2007
 

Students from various levels at LaTrobe Secondary College are working on a collaborative Wall Hanging to depict the story of the Magic Garden.

 
Here in Laramie, at 7200 feet of elevation, summer’s end comes early. Already the days grow cooler, and soon we will have our first frost and golden aspen and cottonwoods. You can already smell woodsmoke on the evening air, and folks are covering up their tomato plants or bringing in the ones growing in pots [...]

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Lori Gloyd (c) 2007

“Garden Meditation”
Lori Gloyd (c) 2007
Digital Construction

written in response to a visual prompt provided in the Magic Garden project (http://projects.globalteacher.org.au/)

Seeking respite from the outside world I chanced upon this “garden” whose magic is there for all to see but which is only seen by those who have eyes to see it and who recognise that beauty lies all around us.

After listening to the story of the Magic Garden students visualized pages of a picture book and considered what a front cover should look like. They used Paint to create these digital representations of pages in a book called the Magic Garden.

Finding the Gold by William

The Birds by Kamal

The Door by Joseph

by Anthony [...]

After listening to Cora Zon tell the story of the Magic Garden and learning all about blogging with Global Student, Grade Six at Hawkesdale P-12 had art. Their teachers, Rebecca and Denise, set them up in small groups to complete the interpersonal activity outlined in the Magic Garden Project. Each group set about making [...]