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 11, 2008 – 11:01 am
Ok so it’s now a recession, even the morning radio station said so but still the IT world seems to rumble on, new products are launched. Even Windows experts are thinking that we will see Windows 7 by August next year. In fact in the review on the windows super site the comparison between Windows [...]
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 [...]
September 22, 2008 – 12:55 pm
Thanks to Derek for this one.
As I sat in a class this morning watching students labour over a task that only a few seemed genuinely engaged in, the teacher and I discussed what their motivation was for the task. Essentially the only reason they were doing anything in this lesson was to get the grade. [...]
August 21, 2008 – 1:58 pm
This from the cool cat teacher blog Have a look at the selection
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Random Name / Word Picker
Cut and Paste a class list into this template, then click a button and watch a name get selected at random to answer a question. Or, put in a list of keywords, which students have to then provide definitions [...]
August 18, 2008 – 9:55 am
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This from Kaimai School
Last week Room 3 set about looking at New Zealand’s Olympic history. They had to pick an Olympic moment and re-enact it to the best of their abilities. The best photo was going through to the Bring It Home website. This is a national competition that asks for [...]
On reading that NSW is going to abandon Microsoft Office in favor of Open Office I was impressed. The path of least resistance was to simply keep on with Office but no, in typical Aussie fashion they are going to thumb their noses and go with change. What does this mean for us? I guess [...]
