I have been thinking about Artichoke’s post “Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends” about designing learning environments. When I am at home, I generally work from a squishy leather couch surrounded by lots of mess. If I have an important task I try to sit at a [...]
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There is no job description for my line of work so, when I am asked, often I answer that I am a professional geek. That answer seems to satisfy most people who know me well. I have this unshakeable need to know about all the intricacies of computer hardware and about all of the stuff [...] Last week New Zealand hit the edu-geek press with the news that a school in Wellington is trialling using Tablet PCs amongst their year five and sixes. NZ Herald story DigiOps Website There has been lots to say about this project and about some of the dollars that are being [...] ArtRage is a fantastic piece of software. It’s a really interesting piece of art software that offers features not seen in other low cost solutions. It has lots of different art tools – brushes, pencils and even palette knives – and the beauty is that they operate like the real thing. Unless you reload your [...] I wonder what Sam Morgan’s teachers really felt about him? Did they see him as a potential entreprenuer? Or did they view him as a pain the backside? And do they have rosey coloured glasses on now? EDIT: There is a link to an 8:11 Close-Up piece about the sale that includes an interview with Gareth Morgan, father [...] … 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) [...] When I was first married, twenty something years ago I was a very tradional young wife. In the world that I lived in my husband went out to work and I looked after the home. Everyweek I would make a shopping list and go to the supermarket. Every week I bought so many toilet rolls, so [...] |
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