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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 [...] Another post from my drafts file … I often tell people that I have been learning to play the guitar for more than thirty-five years – and that I still can’t play. They think it’s a joke. It’s not. Although I love music and in particular the sound of a well played guitar I am not [...] I am always slightly uneasy about conferences. Although I enjoy meeting people and talking about stuff I find the whole thing to be altogether too huge and a little on the intimidating overwhelming side. That being said, there are some observations that I’d like to make about this week’s Learning at School conference in Rotorua. we have [...] The Citizendium is a project that aims to create “a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a co-founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names.” from Citizendium Main Page This is an interesting development [...] Turning the Pages 2.0 is an amazing web application that uses allows you to look through 15 books from the British Library. Unfortunately, you need to be running Vista or at least a high powered Windows XP computer to see the stunning 3D graphics. There is a Flash version available for the other 90% of [...] At four years of age, Olivia has a huge future ahead of her. She is a bright and bouncy, engaging little girl who makes friends with everyone she meets. Olivia is starting to understand lots of the symbols and constructs of the world that she inhabits and she is confident and secure about her place [...] Yesterday I read with interest Will Richardson’s post Owning the Teaching…and the Learning. Will laments a teacher who told him that she doesn’t see any need to spend more than ten minutes online a day. “She said that she’s not going to sacrifice the other things that she already does in her life to spend more [...] 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 [...] A few years ago I was part of a really special group of people. We were special because we had sacred knowledge and it we were charged with the sacred duty to share the good news with everyone we met. And share we did. Despite the naysayers and the knockers we kept on spreading our version [...] So | find myself in something of a conscience crisis. |
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