December 12, 2008 – 6:27 pm
So we made it down to Masterton for the Makoura College Reunion. I am at present looking after Rylee while Nat and her parents attend the opening night. Got some great photos on the way down and always interesting to visit a place that was once a huge part of someones life.
We have found of [...]
November 27, 2008 – 10:48 am
Recently had an email which asked some good questions thought I might reply here as well for everyones benefit.
To answer your Questions
What are you using as the laptops? - full size, or netbooks? How many do you have, and what size school?
We are using a fifty/fifty mix of mac/pc all fullsize we have 120 at [...]
November 2, 2008 – 3:32 pm
Well the sun came out at last and what a successful event the mower day was this year. Huge crowds and some awesome racing. Now I can look forward to seeing the footage as we put together the video of the event. I have to say the mowers were faster this year than ever before [...]
October 25, 2008 – 1:30 pm
Being a long weekend I have finished a few books and one of the ones I should have blogged about a while ago is “Doing School”. I brought this book from Amazon after having listened to the author on itunesU. The basic premise of the book is that the author followed five successful students [...]
October 20, 2008 – 12:39 pm
ICT as a separate subject has been a bugbear for some time for me. I felt like having this rant because I have spent the last few weeks tutoring 2 student teachers who recieved a NZ $30,000 allowance to train as Technology teachers. Their task was to create a scheme of work for [...]
October 15, 2008 – 7:41 pm
I had waited expectantly for today’s announcement of new MacBook and MacBook Pro computers. They look sleek, shiny and elegant like one would expect from apple. Alas there is a hidden catch, the MacBook Pro has dropped firewire 400 in favour of firewire 800, that in itself is no particularly big deal, some different cables will pretty [...]
September 24, 2008 – 10:10 pm
Fairly cheesy video but you get the idea. I just bought this app because I have become a beta tester for the mac as it is only advertised to work on XP and Vista. The app works by installing server software on your computer and transmitting the data over wifi. The application has 2 modes, [...]
September 19, 2008 – 9:28 am
YouTube - Close Up: NCEA vs Cambridge exams.
At our Home group meeting yesterday the conversation swung to assessment in schools. I must say I have not been a huge fan of NCEA but in saying that I do firmly believe that it is up to us as teachers to make it work. In saying that [...]
September 8, 2008 – 3:30 pm
Exam week is again upon us and I read with interest the discussion on the New Zealand History Teachers association blog-
We believe the exam component is important to maintaining both credibility and a sound basis for future study. There is no evidence that Universities or Polytechnics are abandoning exams and we owe it to our [...]
August 29, 2008 – 11:27 am
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
For the past year we have been interested in the flip video, This Video from David Pogue illustrates it pretty well.
Now finally we have been able to get our hands on some in New Zealand from edsoft. At less than $300 dollars the Flip finally brings the possibilities of video to the average teacher. [...]
