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 […]
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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Some reflections on the “cultural chords” conference. This a music education conference for teachers in New Zealnd. These are my brief impressions: Really sad to hear from teachers from christchurch. #gutted Awesome to hear from David Price. He had very strong, political things to say about national standards and teaching & learning. I hosted the […]
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 […]
I ff’d everyone who sent me kind tweets this week while I was in hospital. Thank you to all of you. It really made a very difficult week much more bearable. I had another excellent sleep last night, and this morning I had all of my accessories uninstalled: drip, epidural, catheter… I could shower and […]
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 […]
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.
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