Schools are watching this LIVE..!

Hi Ms. Charles and class, welcome to the Boma and to Africam, I'm from WI, and like you, am enthralled with the new cam, it's most excellent indeed!

L wrote:

Hi Ms. Charles and class, welcome to the Boma and to Africam, I'm from WI, and like you, am enthralled with the new cam, it's most excellent indeed!

On behalf of myself and 32 adorable kids, thank you for the kind words. The kids are just glued to the monitor at school. At times it's very difficult to pry them away to get to there other school work done., who new...!

OK here we go....does any one know what in heck is the name of that bird were watching right now. iI has long long legs, black head with a black and white body, and moves ever so grecefull. It has bright yellow at the top of it's beak, then black and what looks like red at the end. Can anyone help asnswer this for the kids this morning.

Saddle-billed stork
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddle-billed_Stork

Hello Ms Charlie and the kids !! ....enjoy this site !!....I am from Austria (...no, not the continent with the Koala-bears, but in the middle of Europe)....sorry...cannot open the cam, so I don't know which bird you saw.. :cry: .....anyway...very welcome here !!

Thank you so much for this. never has the name of a bird been more appropiate...looks just like a saddle. So now the kids will search this, and find out where Austria is on the world globe. Were having a blast. Thanks guys.

Ms Charlie...greetings to you and all kids from ... Greece too
You can also look at the pics at ' Nkorho pan cam pics' thread of this forum...We usually write the names of the animals near the pics we save and post there and I promise I will do it always in future

Welcome to AfriCam, Ms Charlie and all the kids in the classroom!

Just printed this quote out and it is now poster size on the classroom wall.....THANK YOU. Jane Goodall was just here in Vancouver Canada over the issues were having about the Spirit Bears. THANK YOU on behalf of the children.

Welcome Ms Charlie and all the kids, I hope you see many animals.
I wish I am a kid in your class!

Wow! It is GREAT to be here!
I just now recieved my arthorization!

Lol parrotlady, could you start your own topic? It is easier for ppl to see you are new
A big welcome from me already
I am not always this fast to answer, but I was just reading this thread

parrotlady wrote:

Wow! It is GREAT to be here! I just now recieved my arthorization!

Hi Parrotlady from the class room. The kids here are so glad to see your name pop up. What would these kids do without all your post of the animals for them. I Hope for the kids sake you will do it here for them as well. They love your pictures of the animals, as we all do. Wait till you see all that is in this forum for the kids. It's just amazing.
The kids owe you so much as I do.....Thank you for signing up here..

Whoops, I just got corrected by Katlyn, 6 yrs old that we did not thank you for posting the picture of the camera's up in the leadwood tree so they can see how all this works. so THANK YOU from a very greatful 6 yr old and the entire classroom.

cerinthe wrote:

Welcome Ms Charlie and all the kids, I hope you see many animals. I wish I am a kid in your class!

Heck IMHO, were all kids in this class. no one more then I have learned more from all this and then from the kids questions and, why , why , why, what, why, lol. Yup were all learning here.

Ms Charlie wrote:

parrotlady wrote:

Wow! It is GREAT to be here! I just now recieved my arthorization!

Hi Parrotlady from the class room. The kids here are so glad to see your name pop up. What would these kids do without all your post of the animals for them. I Hope for the kids sake you will do it here for them as well. They love your pictures of the animals, as we all do. Wait till you see all that is in this forum for the kids. It's just amazing.
The kids owe you so much as I do.....Thank you for signing up here..

Whoops, I just got corrected by Katlyn, 6 yrs old that we did not thank you for posting the picture of the camera's up in the leadwood tree so they can see how all this works. so THANK YOU from a very greatful 6 yr old and the entire classroom.

No problem at all. I love to do it. I just love all these new experiences!
You tell everyone I am giving them a huge HELLO from North Carolina!!!!
I wonder what animals we are going to be experiencing next through the Africam! My African Grey "Gabbie" is from Africa. I would love to see some wild African Greys thru the LIVE CAM. Wouldn't that be something to see???

Could anyone give me a heads up on what you have to do to get a Avitar sized right so I can post it on here. I have been resizing Avitars for a very long time on every forum imaginable but for some reason it keeps telling me mine is too big. No matter how small I have been making them.
I am VERY discouraged. I have them sized to 75 pix. but it still will not let it go thru. Anyone here got any ideas as to what is wrong??? I am in need of some Tech. support please. I feel a little silly.

Question:
1. Has any one seen any Lions at the water hole yet. If so when.

2. Have any of the animals been eaten or attacked by Lion at the water hole.

3. How tall is a Giraffe.

4. What is the temp during the day, and the temp at night.

5. What is the scientific name of that owl we see at night.

We hope someone can answer these. I assure you they have piles and piles of question they want to ask. So we threw them all in a can, and drew out 5. We decided we would ask 5 questions a day. We hope this is OK with you guys. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Queston 1. We have not yet seen lion on the cam.
Question 2. Nope, we did not see any animals being eaten either, because we didn't see predators such as lion or leopard there .... yet!
Question 5. Giant eagle owl or the Bubo lacteus
That's the questions I know
I'm sure someone else will know the other

3 Info about giraffes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe

4. weather in Nkorho!
Skukuza is the nearest place I know that have daily weather reports
Skukuza is about 28km south of Nkorho
http://english.wunderground.com/global/stations/68296.html

Foldron & cerinthe, Thank you. Shucks if you guys answer this quick maybe the kids should have asked nore questions...lol. Will pull up the weather channel first thing in the morning.

Hi all!!! (BIG WAVE)

How is everyone? I hope all you kids out there are having an eventful day at school... I used to love school. I hope you all are truly enjoying yourself. These days you are in school will probably be some of the best days, and years of your life. I hope so anyway!!! Here is a picture of the cameras in a tree. These are the cameras that bring us all the action.

~~ HI KIDS AND TEACHER - WELCOME TO AFRICAM - YOU WILL SEE MANY NEW AND EXCITING ANIMALS AND BIRDS ON THIS SITE- -SO FROM http://www.britishcolumbia.com/regions/towns/?townID=45 BOWSER VANCOUVER ISLAND BRITISH COLUMBIA - ENJOY THIS SITE -

Good morning all from the classroom. We have a question for you, and thought maybe someone other then us out there could possibly explain this better then our attempt, here goes. We just watched a few members live video's of the baboon's and other monkeys coming out of the bush to drink and play at the water hole. Seemed innocent enough right......?....wrong lol. Out of the mouth of a 7 year old. Question to teacher: Does Kong live in those bushes to, and is he going to chase those baboons or all they all friends ? Teacher: No 'Kong' was a fictional movie character and just a Movie. Student: That's NOT true. My Mom & Dad took me to see ' March of the Penguin''s and that was a Movie and it was at the same movie theatre they took me to see 'Kong' . rofl rofl.
So world...do any of you want to try and address this one this fine morning...it's kind of hard to explain something like this when you can't stop laughing. Oh to be 7 years old again.

Ms Charlie,
You might try finding a DVD that has a "making of" section. I know the March of the Penguins DVD has a special feature that shows the photographer laying in the snow taking the pictures. Maybe Kong will have something showing how they made Kong appear real.

There is also the difference between a documentary and a Hollywood movie to discuss.

Good luck!
ElaineK

~~ MS, CHARLIE- HERE IS A SUGGESTION -- MABY YOU OR SOME ONE IN THE BOMA SITE COULD CONNECT YOU WITH A GRADE ONE CLASS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE CHILDREN IN AFRICA COULD ANSWER SOME OF YOUR CLASS - QUESTIONS AS --- 6-7 YEAR OLD MINDS THINK ALIKE ALL OVER THE WORLD - (BARRY)-

Oh my Gosh...that would be FANTASTIC....absolutely FANTASTIC...the difficulty were also having here is were actually off of the wavelit.com site. So were having to switch back and forth from one forum to the other.
I also have the ablilty to shoot out live feed from the students to anywhere around the world..but we have to find a way to organize this better. When we have to switch from one froum to another the down time is to long for the kids as the time alloted on the PC's to watch this are less then a hour per day per class. We have high speed but stil lthe connection is slow at times.

HI CLASS AND MS. CHARLIE- GO TO MEMBER LIST - THE FIRST NAME THIER IS ~~CAMERAMAN ~~ SEND HIM A POST - AS HE IS THE MAN THAT SETS UP THE BOMA SITES- MABY HE COULD CONNECT YOUR CLASS WITH A CLASS IN SOUTH AFRICA - - HE IS THE MAN LOL

Hello Ms Charlie and the children...

Children: Please could you give us a bit more information about yourselves?

For example, which Grade are you in - and for those of us who do not understand the 'grading' system, how old you are?

Do you have favourite animals, or are any of you particularly interested in birds, creepy-crawlies or reptiles for example?

Ms Charlie: How often, and at what times of the day, does your class watch the cameras?

Please ask any questions about the animals that you, or your children, would like to know - there is a wealth of expertise here, whether from 'ordinary' people who have learned a lot from Africam or whether from 'experts' such as Todd from Wildlifecampus and Campbell, the site owner.