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
The weather has been glorious since Christmas with 28C+ degrees every day. We have spent a lot of time down on the beach- especially easy when it is only 5 minutes away so we can nip down in the evenings as well when Howard finishes work.
Am forcing myself to stay at home today to [...]
After our Swedish Christmas Eve we spent Christmas Day with Howard’s family for a Kiwi Christmas. For the first time forever (no-one can remember the last time) the whole family were together on Christmas Day, Nan & Pop, Howard and his 2 brothers, wives, nephews and nieces. Both Nan & Pop also had a widowed [...]
I was interested in Steve Kilgallon’s article in the Sunday Star Times about Ghost Bikes. These are generally small and sombre memorials for bicyclists who are killed or hit on the street. A bicycle is painted all white and locked to a street sign near the crash site, accompanied by a small plaque. They serve [...]
The Tuesday morning session was started by a rousing presentation by Ngahihi o te ra Bidois from Rotorua. Given this international conference is being held in New Zealand it was great to have someone who so obviously embraced his NZ and Maori heritage.
Ngahihi o te ra talked of ways to increase your leadership influence and [...]
Have been spending the week at the Tertiary Education Management Conference based at the Christchurch Convention Centre. It has been organised by the Aotearoa Branch of ATEM (for which I am the Branch President) and TEFMA, the Facilities Management Association. It has been an enjoyable conference and good to see everything coming together after 2 [...]
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 [...]
