I am, as those who read my blog regularly will know, a great fan of the TED Talks. However many of these talks I watch there is always one that comes along and moves me. Recently, I got a link from a Tweet (as usual) to a TED Talk from 2008 in Monterey by Benjamin [...]
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I have to admit that I am very excited by the forthcoming Creativity World Forum which is due to take place in Oklahoma City on November 15th -17th. Apart from anything else is the list of speakers that they have lined up.. it reads like a “Who’s Who” of exciting and innovative people like Sir [...]
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I love the way that the internet has opened up opportunities to get to know about books, articles, videos that you may never have had the opportunity to read or watch. I have reviewed one such book which was the wonderful “Maus” a cartoon biography about the holocaust and beyond by Art Spiegelman. I got [...]
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This is a wonderful film on so many levels. It is about Alice, the oldest living holocaust survivor, who survived the concentration camps because she was a concert pianist who played practically every night of her stay in Theresienstadt What stands out about Alice is her love of life, her forgiveness of her experiences [...]
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Yesterday I went for lunch with a group of colleagues. We were saying goodbye to one of our number who was retiring. We sat at a table overlooking the street in which the restaurant was situated and opposite was an old church that had been re-opened as a performing arts college. A group of students [...]
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A colleague of mine is retiring. We decided to take her out to lunch today to say goodbye. So we went to a local restaurant and had a really good meal. The conversation was good as well.Being educational consultants we managed to talk almost exclusively about schools! We discussed the schools we were working in [...]
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A few days ago I retweeted the following Tweet: jasonhbuck jason buck “Twitter is some of the best professional Development I have ever had” @thenerdyteacher #140conf #edtech #edchat I can only say that this is so true. I came to Twitter as a person who believed that it was just about telling your friends [...]
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I found this video, as I do with so many others, by simply following a link from Facebook from a friend Linda Thumann. Yesterday she attended a meeting called Web 2.0 Smackdown at TechForum. For more information see her blog post at http://thumannresources.com/2010/10/22/tltechforum/ In the post she mentioned a number of web 2.0 resources that teachers [...]
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Those of you (a small select intelligent and perceptive group of discerning people!) who follow my blog on a regular basis will note that I have subtly changed the name of this blog. When I first started to blog I meant it to be a chance for me to share my own learning as I [...]
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I have to admit it, I have a problem with the word “instructor”. It comes from the verb “to instruct” and the dictionary definition that I picked up was: in·struct (in strukt′) transitive verb to communicate knowledge to; teach; educate to give facts or information to on a particular matter; inform or guide: the judge [...]
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