Educational Origami

Well, we sare safely back from Pokara and tucked into the Mansulu Hotel for Tonight. We flight out to Bangkok Tommorow for one day. The trip was uneventful, if you ignore the driving, and the fact that the 190km journey to 6 hours – we averaged 30km/hr. Which was just as well as we weaved across [...]

Today is a comunity service day in Pokara, The whole group went to Shree Lila Lower Secondary School under Shanti Stopa.
We bused across the base of the hill, and then proceeded to walk up the hill. When our guuide and sherpa described the hill he said it was Nepali Up. We work on  a sliding [...]

Wow what an experience this has been. Its been 10 days of trekking and we have had a ball. I.
We have seen and learnt many things. The first lesson came very early.
The first hill from Pheni to Dhampus was (in my limited Annapurna experience. It was a big hill but nothing compared to later ones) [...]

I am still in Kathmandu, we drive up to Pokara to start trekking tommorow the Annapurna Circuit.
The weather here is hot, but not as humid as Bangkok. We have had an interesting day today
We started of by going to the monkey temple on the top of a very tall hill in Kathmandu. Yes, we did [...]

Nameste
We had a 12 hour flight so we arrived in Bangkok at 9.30 local time but in New Zealand time it was 1.30 in the morning. We then drove to the hotel, which was in the middle of town, this took about an hour, so we stayed up till 3.30 in the morning. I was [...]

I found this as a post from the 3 Billion blog. The post refers to a youth orientated trend report published by the Next Great Thing. Go to the site and download the paper. It makes for an interesting read.
The paper has a marketing focus but don’t let that deter you. There aren’t that many [...]

I have been foraging around for audio tools and I have found 2 text to speech tools that are free. One is an installed tool and the second an online one

http://www.naturalreaders.com/
This is a download for windows, this tool will allows you to convert any written text into speech, it also converts text to MP3. They [...]

http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/index.php?id=Home
This is a neat little free application that is available for windows, mac or Linux based systems. Derek found this tool and blogged & twittered it.
Its a 5Mb Download and the program does not require installation just unzipping into a folder and running the executable (Win).  Its got the beginnings of a good help [...]

http://www.fullbooks.com/
How cool – this site allows you to access full versions of many many books. This site publishes the texts within the page rather than the Gutenberg projects download. You have to scroll down past the advertising at the top but after that is the text.
between this site and the Gutenberg project, we have [...]

http://digitalexplorer.co.uk/google-earth/
This is a useful site (Thanks Ewen) The site has resources for using Google Earth
Namely a manual (82 page PDF file) and a series of examples of virtual fieldwork using google earth
This is a very useful

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