Virtual haircut

Nat came home today and told me about the virtual haircut well worth a look. It had me reaching out to see if there was someone there. I can only imagine what this will do for gaming and the movies some day.

Exam Room Cricket

And so we come to the time of the year where we have to supervise exams. You can’t do marking, you can’t surf the internet on your phone, what’s left? Well being stuck in the hall again I have decided on cricket. The international rules are as follows:
1 Run = Letting someone go to [...]

How much work do we do versus how much time we have.

So at present my class are working on Achievement Standard 1.1, History Research. For this they have two weeks, Four class periods for research in which I have booked the library and laptops and then a week by themselves. As always I feel that this graph accurately shows how busy they are given the fact [...]

Borneo – Travelog

Now for something totally non IT related.
Recently I blogged about travelling to Borneo unplugged. Usually I don’t get into promoting travel destinations but this last trip was a little different.
We took our 6yr old twins with us on their first ‘adventure tourism’ jaunt so it was very cool seeing things through their eyes and I [...]

Travelling ‘Unplugged’

Well back a week from 12 day family holiday in Brunei and Borneo. I made the decision the day before I left that I was going to go ‘unplugged’ …i.e first time in years I wasn’t going to take a laptop …shock ….horror!! Really couldn’t be bothered with having to go through the scanning, on, [...]

Office 2010 – The Movie

iPhone apps my Daughter loves

Recently Rylee has taken to playing a memory game on abcya.com, she does however find the multiple button mouse difficult so we were thinking about how cool a touch screen would be. I then remembered a review of some of the toddler games for the iPhone OS and to be fair I was amazed [...]

Everlong

I downloaded the guitar tab (sheet music for guitar) for “Everlong” by the Foo Fighters about 2 years ago now.  It’s one of those songs that I love, especially the acoustic version, but every time I try and play it I put it back in the “too hard basket”.  It also happens to be one [...]

The Playstation 3 is for Educational Research Dear…

Yeah Right!

These days you have to keep up with the kids.  Ironically Playstation was the first console to be marketed at 20 somethings with expendable income hence its success and the playstation 3 is no exception with its price tag.  I bit the bullet and the GE money genie bought me a PS3 and Guitar [...]

Shape Collage

Another gem from Lifehacker.com, Shape Collage is a free download and works on Mac and Windows.  On the Mac I just dragged a bunch of photos from iPhoto into Shape collage and a few clicks later I had a collage.  Does what it says on the tin.

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