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Art still matters

Posted in animation, art, tagged animation, anselm kiefer, claymation, radiohead, Russian, serge merinov on January 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Your golden hair, Margarete by Anselm Kiefer. Title derived from Death Fugue by Romanian Jewish poet and WWII survivor Paul Celan. Read more here. The school year is starting again and so I thought I should air out some of my blogs and other resources because they’ve been put away in the top cupboard during the long [...]

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Kick Start Activity 3 (Advanced) – Add Some Muscle to your Blog

Posted in blogging, tagged #ksyb, about me, advanced, blog, Brave new world, challenge, edublogs, pages on January 27, 2011 | 9 Comments »

Well, my participation in the Edublogs-supported blogging activities is erratic to say the least… I wasn’t sure if I should skip to the latest activity number 6 or contribute belatedly to previous activities. As you can see I’ve gone for the latter option, and I’m glad I did because it’s given me a chance to [...]

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Flashmob Moscow style

Posted in Collaboration, creativity, Interesting, music, tagged carols, Christmas, clergy, flashmob, moscow, russia, shopping mall, singing on January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

You’ve all seen the flashmob events made famous by Improv Everywhere, for example, Grand Central Station in New York. Here is a group doing the same thing in a Moscow shopping mall singing a popular Christmas carol. The singers are from an Orthodox boarding school and include clergy (obviously the bearded ones). A bit late [...]

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Going for Google Academy

Posted in Google, learning, networking, tagged application, gct, google, google academy, gta, Sydney, taniatorikova, video on January 22, 2011 | 6 Comments »

I thought I was dreaming when I read a tweet about Google Teacher Academy running in Sydney, Australia this year. The Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies. Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where [...]

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Kick Start Activity 2 – Advanced – Posts! The heartbeat of the Blog.

Posted in blogging, writing, tagged #ksyb, blogging, blogs, edublogs, Edublogs awards, effective_blog_posts, Jeremy Harmer, Joyce Seitzinger, Joyce Valenza, posts, teacher challenge, writing on January 20, 2011 | 7 Comments »

First of all, how important is it for a blog post to be effective? That may seem like a stupid question but I think that it’s reasonable considering many bloggers would say they’re not out to score points. At the same time, whether we like it or not, we write for an audience (even if [...]

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Teacher blogging challenge – Kick start activity 1: Down blog’s memory lane

Posted in blogging, Education, tagged #ksyb, blogging, challenges blog, edublogs, kickstart, reflection on January 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Learning anything means moving forward one step at a time, although sometimes you leap ahead and skip steps, or other times, slip and have to get up again. The steps are not always smooth but that’s life. This is the first post for the first teacherchallenge for advanced bloggers in the Kick Start Your Blog. The [...]

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Kids teach parents tech in their own way

Posted in 21st century learning, parents, technology, tagged learning, parents, teachers, teachparentstech, technology, youtube on January 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This makes me laugh; I think my eldest son may have left home because of this. It’s true that many of the ‘parent’ generation are less than expert at tech. Embarrassing, yes, and something I can completely relate to. When I did my Master of Education online, I didn’t even (dare I say it) know [...]

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