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Why Orewa College is doing the right thing

Orewa College is asking all year 9 students to bring their own device next year. This is awesome. It means that the line between “school” and “the real world” will further fade. I normally hate that concept (the “real” world) but, it’s useful here. A brief recap: The school sent a letter to year 8 […]

Jane Egan at Cultural Chords

Jane Egan HOD Gisborne Girls SFRQ judge Covers band Senior music programme runs afterschool to combat timetable probs. Girls’ imbalance Essential: get a mentor from steph Friday: jam with the kids. Role modelling. Talk about gigs. Watch other women musicians. Women can’t stand that way that men do. Shona Laing, Lani Curtis… Youtube Girl posters. […]

Journal – Cultural Chords installment 2

Apart from me forgetting my physiotherapy appointment, the highlight of yesterday afternoon was the “Reflections on NCEA Moderation.” I’m slightly nervous about be too specific, but suffice to say that it was breathtakingly frank. One of the speakers was pretty brutal about the way NZQA is run They spent a lot of time talking about […]

so i created a gmail filter to send my online bills to rememberthemilk

I’ll keep it brief. I’m assuming: You have a gmail account You have a rememberthemilk.com account and you’re an active user of this awesome to do list machine. it’s free, but you can subscribe  and get a couple of extra features and a warm fuzzy feeling. Create a rememberthemilk inbox email address. In settings. Enable […]

Autotune rant – teacher’s perspective

This is my response to a secondary teacher’s question. Hi all I first used auto tune in 1997. It is not the latest technology. When non professionals (like that journalist) talk about it they show ignorance. I could really rant about this, but I will limit it to a few potent points: Yes, you can […]

Why I’m breaking up with vodafone

It’s become clear that you’re not the only person that has this problem and that means that it’s going to take longer to fix. No we don’t know when it will be fixed.

google finally falls apart http://ow.ly/

google finally falls apart http://ow.ly/1Q1cy

Special Project

Do these jobs first Lydia must take at least 5 good photos. She should probably take more than that, but there must be at least 5 really good ones. Mum can help her with this. Jacob must  import the photos to iphoto (on the mac) and name them. Nat must upload the photos to flickr […]

First meeting for the ‘connect’ professional learning group

This afternoon was the first meeting of my PLG. It was great to see everyone and special thanks to those who told me ahead of time that they couldn’t make it. Our goal is: Connecting learning through the key competencies: developing connections between subjects, EOTC, leadership, co-curricular activities; family and work. People seem to be […]

I hate prepaid petrol

they used to have people who would fill your tank, check stuff and were quite friendly. Then, they cut costs and locked the retail assistants in the shop