One of the cool things about changing schools is getting a taste of local cuisine from one of the prominent cultures of the school community. When I was at Ceduna, it was getting a taste of cooked-in-coals wombat (a local Aboriginal food) and having a parent of Greek background cook yiros for our class party [...]
Monthly Archive for September, 2011
As part of the journey of establishing and implementing our school improvement plan as a brand new school, we have a school closure day planned for this Friday. We’ll be discussing this article as part of the day to help with getting teachers into a common “headspace” about our diverse and complex student population. In [...]
Bud Hunt on the concept of professional distance: For the same reason that I set boundaries in my face to face interactions with students, I maintain some sense of professional separation in online spaces. I’d encourage you to consider carefully you and your community’s comfort as you intentionally choose the public faces of your online [...]
Tonight’s learner PD was using Google Maps to create a story. Here’s the link to the story I created as the example and stimulus for my small group of keen learners. View My Journey As An Educator in a larger map I was thinking that this could be a great tool for so many things [...]
I was asked today by one of my new colleagues about whether I was enjoying my new job. I told her that I was enjoying it very much – the opportunity to take on a more substantive leadership role, to be involved in a totally different school environment and to put some of my experience [...]
It often takes me a while to get ideas to clarify within my mind. It can be a concept that is crystal clear to others but I need to strain the ideas through a few different sieves before I can articulate the essential gist of a concept. Forgive me if you are in the camp [...]
I really enjoy browsing through video sharing websites, in particular Youtube and Vimeo, but for different reasons. Vimeo is the place to find something new, being a hangout for short film makers and other culturally switched on artists. There are some beautifully crafted videos there – this one was originally tweeted out to me by [...]
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