Monthly Archive for August, 2012

Here’s My First Conscious Social Object Concept (Very Rough Format)

Published on August 21, 2012 in Future Directions, Information Literacy and Learning. 1 Comment

Following on from yesterday’s post: This idea stems from a common problem in primary school yards – dropped litter. Buckets that encourage social responsibility with a touch of fun – and bin “monsters” that are inviting to use – a problem that seems to be challenging to address in terms of altering behaviour. Lecturing and [...]

Cartoons As Social Objects

Published on August 19, 2012 in Future Directions and Learning. 2 Comments

I’m not alone when I cite Hugh MacLeod of GapingVoid as one of my favourite cartoonists on the web. I also really like Alex Noriega, Jessica Hagy, Doug Savage but my all time favourite cartoonist (whose work pre-dates the internet easily) is Michael Leunig. A well drawn cartoon can capture an idea or an emotion [...]

The Workaround

Published on August 5, 2012 in Personal Reflections. 0 Comments

A teacher asked me to help with her class’s work on “goods and services” where they were creating their own fictional business and researching the types of goods and services they would offer. We were creating a virtual town to post up on a wiki and one of the steps was to use TuxPaint to [...]

Making Connections For CALD Students

Published on August 2, 2012 in Learning and Personal Reflections. 0 Comments

At our Tuesday staff PD session, we had the privilege of hearing from one of DECD’s African Community Liaison Officers (CLO for short) who had worked briefly at my school earlier in 2012 as a Bi-Lingual School Support Officer (BSSO for short) before being snapped for a much broader role. His name was Abdullahi Ahmed [...]