School’s out Friday

Here’s a new improveverywhere mission. This time they throw a surprise wedding for a couple who have just married at a New York registry office. You can see this couple had a memorable day – probably far more memorable than they had first anticipated!
Enjoy the weekend and whatever it brings your way.  : )

Barry Heard’s gift – his story.

Cover via Amazon

I feel like I’ve been away from this blog for a long time. There has been so much to write about but other things – life – have got in the way.
Last Friday I was privileged to be a member of the audience when Barry Heard addressed our Year 9 students and spoke [...]

PLP – the experience

We’ve just spent the last week or so summing up our PLP (Powerful Learning Practice) experience as a culminating video for presentation for an international audience, who may want to visit the PLP site and see for themselves what is possible when a team of people commit themselves to making change within their school.
I can’t [...]

School’s out Friday

I haven’t written a post in a week. Did anyone notice?
It’s not that there haven’t been things to write about. I’ve been busy getting our PLP video organised and was hit with a head cold that didn’t stop me going to work, but it did slow me down once I’d got [...]

School’s out Friday

I love Hamish and Andy. You’ve probably figured this out if you’ve been following School’s out Friday posts for awhile. This one is worthy of a look. It’s Hamish and Andy freeating for a week. They decided that a solution to the Global Financial Crisis would be to avoid paying for food and see [...]

Confronting the arch enemy.

Return to work week. Return to meetings, classes, projects, correction and everything else that comes with the teaching profession.
Return to a confrontation with my arch enemy.
 Time.
Time to learn new things. Time to implement new ideas into my practice. Time to transform our library functionality into something more reflective of the things I am used to [...]

Just think about it…

Just think about it……….
1o years ago, if I wanted to find out about Biston Betularia and Industrial Melanism I would have had to venture to my local library, search the  catalogue and hope that a book they had contained some information about what it is. My best bet may have been the hard copy of World [...]

Slideshare for education

This is ‘The Story of H’, by Lubomir Panayotov, and it recently won Best Storytelling in the Slideshare, ‘Tell a story in 30 slides or less’ contest. It tells the story of the Helicobacter Pylori bacteria that effects over 50% of the population. It’s a very informative presentation and would be useful in science or health classes.
Teachers [...]

School’s out Friday

Flash mob tribute to Michael Jackson in Sergels Torg, Stockholm.

Same song, same flash mob, this time at Central station, Stockholm. 

Flash mob in London : tribute to Michael Jackson on June 26th, the day of his death.
Wikipedia explains a Flash mob as being;
A flash [...]

The future of innovation

Don Tapscott, author of Grown up Digital and Wikinomics, has just uploaded to Slideshare a presentation he has called, Grown Up Digital: The Net Generation and the Future of Innovation. In it was the above slide. The words on that slide have ecapsulated for me the difficulties we have convincing others of the need to change our [...]