Vanity

January 2010

My catch of the day at the Huka Falls Prawn Park

A new decade – a new start?

It would be nice to be able to resurrect this space and do some “fun” writing again. The pressures of the last eighteen months have meant that, apart from tiny Twitter-bytes, I haven’t done any real writing about [...]

TUANZ

My first experince at Eden Park was about twenty something years ago. I was a young Mum with a bunch of kids and we were not attending a sporting event. We were however sitting outside in the stands. I vividly remember being whipped around by the cold wind.

Today brought back some memories of that first [...]

Need

I’m working through a half baked concept about learning. Something along the lines of the Just in Time idea.

Last week I absolutely needed a way to import a lot of records into a database. My database skills are legendary – because I have none. I created the tables in Excel and did what I should [...]

Yesterday’s Post …

… was written when I showed some teachers how easy it is to use Wordpress (or a similar application) to keep a website up to date. Specifically an interactive school website. Far away from the traditional website that gets designed, half built and never updated (because the geeky teacher moves on or into other things) [...]

Lead Teacher Programme

We’re at Wainui School today, looking at our cluster programme for 2006.

Celebrate!

I wore my brand new thinkgeek.com t-shirt today. It said, “I’m blogging this.” And so I am.

The six schools in our ICT PD (Information and Communication Technology Professional Development) cluster got together tonight to show off some of the things that we’ve been doing, thinking and learning about this year.

The teachers in the schools [...]