Here is the video we put together for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority’s Show Us Your .CA contest.  We created at least fifty posters.  The majority of the video was filmed and recorded the week of March 1, 2010.

Credits

The music used is called WW by a band called Greenroom.  It is used with a Creative Commons license and can be found at www.MusicAlley.com

The CBC logo, CBC Ottawa Morning and Kathleen Petty’s voice are all used with permission.  You can hear the entire Portable Radio Point of View about H1N1 here.

No children were hurt in creating or playing on their giant snow boulder!

In this episode:

* Egg protector speeches: Greg, Ryan, Calysta, Katie, Kayla, Sydney

* Mont Cascades: Lauren

* Rocks and Minerals: Caitlin

* Don’t Say it! – game played by Katherine, Charlie and Maxim

* How to play freeze tag: Dylan

* Station IDs: Greg and Alex

* How to play Man Hunt: Cameron

* How I Moved my Little Brother off the Couch: Emily

* How to move Devin’s Brother off the Couch:  Devin, Keegan

* How to Move Talia’s Sister off the Couch: Talia

* How to Get My Brother off the Laptop: Dillon

* Ballad for a Green Alien: performed by Sheridan

* Blue’s Smile: performed by Maggie

All music used in this episode is used with permission:

* WW – Greenroom (Music Alley)

* Dead Weight – Purple Planet Music

* The Music Box – Purple Planet Music

* Eggs – Trixie and the Merch Girls  (Music Alley)

* Flashback – Roger Lemelin

* Spanish Flair – Roger Lemelin

* Mysterious Adventure – Roger Lemelin

* Blue’s Smile – Nathan Toft (PortableRecorder.ca)

* Ballad for a Green Alien – Nathan Toft (PortableRecorder.ca)

More Credits

Thanks to Mr. Toft’s 4 year old daughter and 7 year son for helping with the intro and outro.

Students in Grade 5 test their egg protectors.

Here is our P.O.V. on the future of paper books in this age of Kindle and the newly announced Apple iPad as heard on CBC’s Ottawa Morning.

To clarify, Mrs. Smith’s Grade 5 class from South March Public School produced our latest Portable Radio Point of View. Apologies for any confusion.

This week Apple computers is announcing a new computer tablet. One of  the features of this new device is that you can download books. There are already other devices like the Kindle that let you do that. In our class we read hard back and paper back books but we also use audio books and digital books. We were wondering if paper books will disappear in the future and be entirely replaced by computer books or if people will still want to have traditional books.

Today was a snow day and all the buses were cancelled.  The schools remained open.  The students who were able to come to school today (Mr. Baird’s Grade 4/5 class and Mr. Toft’s Grade 5s) decided to put together a P.O.V. giving their opinion as to whether schools should be open on snow days.

Congratulations to the students from Mr. Baird’s class and my class who came to school yesterday.  Your P.O.V. on closing schools on snow days was aired this morning on CBC radio’s Ottawa Morning.

Our POV on the Olympic athletes being given priority in H1N1 vaccinations was aired this morning on CBC radio’s Ottawa Morning.  Congratulations everyone!

Should we say thanks, even when we don’t mean it?  The students from Portable Radio share their opinions:We were fortunate enough to have this P.O.V. aired on CBC radio’s Ottawa morning on Monday, October 12, 2009.

In today’s news we learned that the chief medical officer for Canada’s Olympic team wants our athletes to get the H1N1 vaccination sooner than everyone else.  Canada’s Public Health Agency disagrees, saying that the athletes do not need any special treatment.