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How to be a “Magpie” Supporter The Collingwood football club, affectionately known as the Magpies, was established in 1892. It is an Australian Football League team and is situated in Melbourne. A city, known for its passionate sports followers. When the Club first started operating it was considered the working class or poor man’s club […]
In our crazy, busy world we often find ourselves running in circles to try and complete tasks. We become stressed, don’t feel as if we have achieved anything and do not find the joy of exploring and doing new things. The attached poster provides some tips on how to be productive and should be a […]
Anything is Possible by Cosentino I recently read Cosentino’s book, “Anything is Possible”. Cosentino is “Australia’s premier illusionist and escapologist – a magician to his fingertips, a man who constantly challenges our notions of what is possible”. I had seen some of Cosentino’s television performances and had been pretty impressed so I thought I would […]
Technology and the Internet offer amazing opportunities for learning. I think most people recognise this. The changes, however, have come so quickly that adults and teachers haven’t always been able to keep up with them or necessarily understand them. As adults we sometimes blame the technology for the fact that our children are not acting […]
Often the labeling of different formats of curriculum delivery can lead to confusion. Whilst I have heard of Project learning and Problem based learning and possibly engaged my students in this type of learning, neither of these labels were ever applied when I was planning or delivering the curriculum. The important thing is that students […]
Experimenting with some free artistic Apps today. The first two photos have been altered using DotMatrix.There are lots of designs that you can use and the colours etc can be changed. The third photo was treated with photo sketch, another free App. The last photo uses the App Photobricks. All of these Apps are free. […]
Using a capacity matrix with an accompanying resource matrix is a great way to involve students in their own learning and to promote independence of learning. What is a capacity matrix you might ask? Well, it is a visual learning and charting technique created by David Langford and Dr Myron Tribus. Basically, it is a […]
“Done that!” How often do we hear people saying this, when confronted with a new change? Often, they are quite correct. It has been tried before. Sometimes someone will see an idea for a change and think they should or could implement this in their school setting. This can mean a real change in direction […]
This story relates the connection between my learning journey and David Thornburg’s primordial metaphors of cave, campfire, waterhole and life. I used toon camera and creative book builder to create the original book. To share on this blog I had to change it to a PDF. story blog-2knwxad
Schools, for many reasons, have been put in the position of being in competition with each other. Whilst technology has had an amazing impact on our society and has provided the opportunity for more transparency it has often been used to increase the competitiveness between schools. Data is now published to the whole community and […]