I believe this about learning…

‘map of Romania’ photo by ggrosseck on flickr   …students do not come in one-size-fits-all packages and should be treated as individuals who deserve to be stretched …no matter what their level of learning, a student’s work is enhanced when their parents are involved in the learning process …the experiences of students are important aspects [...]

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1000 books you must read

Malcolm McDowell in A clockwork orange directed by Stanely Kubrick. Photo from The Guardian.     The Guardian has created the definitive list of must-reads: 1000 novels everyone must read. Selected by the Guardian’s Review team and a panel of expert judges, this list includes only novels – no memoirs, no short stories, no long [...]

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Twitter mosaic

Thought this was cool – a mosaic of my Twitter followers. This is a visualisation of the community I rely on – for the latest information, help, discourse, banter, and much more. If you’re a Twitter user, you can also get this follower mosaic.

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From George Washington to Barack Obama

It would be remiss of me not to post something about Barack Obama’s inauguration. Not for the first time, I’ve shirked a difficult synopsis of a complex event by opting for a video. Theresa McGee posted this video in her post on the The Teaching Palette. It’s an interesting visual journey through the line of [...]

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Reading in the margins with others

I’ve been involved in a discussion lately about different types of reading. Most people have agreed that reading a novel is very different to reading a website or anything else online. Some people think that deep thinking and understanding are becoming extinct since reading online has distracted a large part of the population. People are [...]

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What does learning and teaching look like for me in 2009?

photo by aussiegall Paul C of Quoteflections tagged me in a meme which goes a little like this: What is the focus of learning for you in 2009? What are the important new things you are teaching ? In her meme, Joyce Valenza wrote The landscape continues to shift and that means reinterpreting our standards [...]

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The world is talking; are you listening?

Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore At the moment the special coverage reports on Gaza strip bombings, Thailand protests 2008, Google street view arriving in Japan, and more. I’m always looking to expand the often selective media coverage on mainstream [...]

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Is the book dead? Is reading dying?

Photo by Sansanparrots on Flickr Another article about whether reading – in the way we have known it – has changed forever; and is reading books becoming extinct as we are lured by  online offerings. People of the screen by Christine Rosen in the online journal The New Atlantis: a journey of technology and society is certainly worth [...]

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Prado in Google – a closer look at art

Viewing a Velasquez or a Rembrandt in a place like Spain’s Prado museum is a unique experience. Now you can use Google Earth technology to navigate reproductions of the Prado’s masterpieces, delving even deeper into the Prado’s collection. In Google Earth, you can get close enough to examine a painter’s brushstrokes or the craquelure on [...]

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Rethinking young people, rethinking ourselves

Photo taken by Chris Suderman In his book Through the children’s gate, Adam Gopnik said this about children: Children reconnect us to romance. For children, … every day is the first day of love: The passions that for us grown-ups rise and fall only in exceptional circumstances, unexpected storms on the dull normal beach where [...]

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