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Facebook performance – What are you doing right now?

Posted in art, creativity, networking, technology, Web 2.0, tagged art, artists, conceptual, Facebook, performance, social networking, Twitter on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Photo of An Xiao I was reading an article in the New York Times, Where art meets social networking sites, and came across Debbie Hesse who is an installation artist and the director of artistic services and programs for the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. According to the article, Debbie said she was a lot [...]

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Should teachers be more like conductors? TED tells

Posted in 21st century learning, learning, music, teachers, teaching, tagged conducting, conductor, control, interpretation, Itay Talgam, leader, learning, music, musicians, orchestra, stories, students, teacher, trust on October 22, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Orchestra conductor Itay Talgam has discovered that the secrets of good conducting shed light on leadership in general. I found the messages in this TED talk to be very relevant to teaching. Itay Talgam’s TED biography observes that Talgam finds metaphors for organizational behavior — and models for inspired leadership — within the workings of [...]

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Have we understood picture books yet? What is YA literature?

Posted in art, Children's books, debate, reading, tagged Australia, authors, awards, books, deutsche jugendliteraturpreis, fiction, illustrators, interpretation, Markus Zusak, picture books, reading, Shaun Tan, stories on October 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Shaun Tan and Markus Zusak, two of Australia’s favourite and most talented authors/illustrators, have received international acclaim by winning in two of the major categories at the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis, Germany’s most prestigious awards for children’s and YA books. Shaun Tan received first prize for the Picture Book category for his Tales from outer suburbia and [...]

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Michael Gerard Bauer joins our writing project

Posted in 21st century learning, creativity, Education, networking, Web 2.0, writing, tagged author, collaboration, creative writing, Michael Gerard Bauer, murder mystery, networking, personification, year 7 on October 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »

This is cross-posted on my English class blog and fiction blog. A little while ago I wrote on my English class blog about my hopeful expectation that Michael Gerard Bauer would accept my invitation to join our creative writing project after we listened to Lemony Snicket’s The composer is dead. It’s a brilliant, witty and hysterical [...]

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Design the school of the future, but do it now (GPS)

Posted in 21st century learning, Education, teaching, technology, tagged architecture, Design, Education, future, GPS, Green Pen Society, ideal, learning, school, tinkering on October 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »

As I’ve said in my previous post, Green Pen Society is Paul Cornies’ brainchild, and has brought together bloggers (thinkers, writers) from different parts of the world. It’s my turn to devise a theme for October’s post, and I’ve chosen the theme of school design, namely: What would your ideal school look like? Design the school of [...]

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By words my mind is winged – Aristophanes

Posted in blogging, networking, Web 2.0, writing, tagged collaboration, future, GPS, Green Pen Society, ideal, Ken Allan, Paul Cornies, school, words on October 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Photo courtesy of Thungaturti on Flickr. Aristophanes made an excellent point. Our thoughts soar but are carried on the wings of words. Paul Cornies at Quoteflections has selected Aristophanes’ quote and many others on his eclectic blog. He has provided a platform for the sharing of ideas by giving an opportunity for bloggers to unite in contributing a [...]

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