It is a mixture of personal anecdotes, observations, skites about my son, Thomas and sometimes some things vaguely intelligent. For much more intelligent comments on education, social software and the like check out the blogs of my colleagues at www.core-ed.net
I was interested to read in the Daily Telegraph On-line that the British government is contemplating the introduction of a new “iPod” tax to help pay for unprofitable programmes on ITV and Channel 4. The levy would be imposed on digital music players, Sky satellite dishes, Freeview boxes and internet subscriptions to [...]
CORE Education has just released its a newly developed web portal, EDTalks, a growing collection of videos featuring New Zealand and International educators talking about learning.
Currently being profiled on CORE’s front page is Sharon Freisen on “New roles for teachers- addressing misconceptions”.
The Edtalks site also features other clips and short talks from Sharon and [...]
Was reading friend Ruth’s blog and noticed this post. I saw it on the Yahoo website last week and meant to mention it then, but her blog has spurred me on to write about it.
QV (Quotable Valuations) hold all sorts of information about house prices, sales in your area, property statistics etc, and with the [...]
This morning Thomas performed at the local fete with the Windsor School Kapa Haka group. It was a bit grey and damp underfoot, so the boys especially were a bit chily with bare chests and no shoes, but they all had a great time and did really well. Thomas is really enjoying the Maori culture [...]
For once Howard and I managed a night out together when we were guests at the Canterbury Champions (Business) Awards, held at the Christchurch Convention Centre.
The event is the largest business awards event in New Zealand with about 1,200 guests
The Champion Canterbury Awards are designed to celebrate business excellence, passion and success recognising the contribution [...]
As i read about the latest email hoax to do the rounds, I wonder about the ongoing gullibility of people to fall for these things.
The latest one spreading around NZ at the moment, promises free laptops for people who send a chain email, promising a prize if the recipient forwards the message to their [...]
Regular readers of my blog (if there are such a thing) will know that each year I comment on the arrival of the Godwits, which to Cantabrians signals the start of Spring. They sneaked in early before the usual Council patrols had started and surprised everyone.
The Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica baueri) arrives in New [...]
We are just back from a lovely weekend in Twizel. We have one of the original houses in the township, built in 1968 when the whole town was developed to house the workers on the Upper Waitaki Hydro Power scheme, which ran from 1968 to 1986.
The town is located in the beautiful MacKenzie Country, and [...]
I came across this great video recently and then discovered it is part of a whole bigger thing! The “Where the Hell is Matt?” website follows the travels “a 31 year old deadbeat” who has the job that I want!
American Matt was working in Australia, when he decided to quit his job and use the [...]
