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Rendcomb Juniors =Quick Links=

You have to be in it to win it. Why not give yourself an extra challenge this term and enter a competition in an area that your interested in. This link will take you to several current competitions but you may find some of your own to enter too. Mrs Haas always has The First News and The Gloucestershire Wildlife magazine in her classroom. Competitions to enter this term

J5 Michaelmas Term Wiki Page

J5 Lent Term Wiki Page

Otters Blog J3 - J6 Blog

You can learn all by yourself. See the suggestions on Beat the Teacher.

=Why a wikispace?=

Now this might fill some staff and parents with panic as the mere mention of the word 'wiki' conjures up warnings about Wikipedia and Wikileaks. //This is nothing like that!// The origin of the word //wiki i//s Hawaiian and comes from their word //wiki wiki// which means super fast//.// //See h//[|ttp://www.techterms.com/definition/wiki] A wiki is a collaborative website that can be updated by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content. Using wikispaces however is much more suitable for schools than other wikis as it allows the teacher to control who can and cannot view and edit pages. When I set up the wiki, I had the following choices:
 * ** Public - ** anyone can view and edit the pages
 * ** Protected - ** anyone can view the pages but only members of the wiki can edit them
 * ** Private - ** only wiki members can view and edit

I have chosen to use protected wiki pages because this will give the pupils and teachers a real audience but only the children, teachers and I can edit them.

NB : Please do not think that this means that I endorse the use of Wikipedia . Whilst this is often a source of interesting information, it is by no means necessarily  accurate or correct. These are public wiki pages that anyone can edit and they often do. As the world becomes flooded with more and more written material that is so easily available on line , our pupils are going to have to learn to distinguish between the following: These are some of the skills we will be focusing on this term.
 * fact
 * fiction
 * bias
 * perception
 * truth
 * half-truth

=**We Blog too **= <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 21px;">Take a look at our two blogs: <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 21px;">Rendcomb College Juniors J3 - J6 Blog <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 21px;">J2 Blog

A couple of years ago we ran a blog called Rendcombers. Our previous blog spot for J3 - J6. This still exists and I urge you to have a look at it for advice on Internet Safety for Rendcomb pupils, news from previous years and other useful information such as what to start term with. [|www.rendcombers.blogspot.co.uk]
 * Rendcomb History of Blogging**

Also, take a look at the J2 Blog 2011-2012