Educational Origami

Yesterday Bob and Freda Narev visited us.
They, as children, survived the ravages and deprivations of the concentration camps and the Nazi pogrom against the Jewish people of Europe and immigrated to New Zealand.
Bob and Freda are ordinary people, who came to us to tell an extraordinary message. A message that we can ignore, a message [...]

Chris Lehmann in his ignite philly 5 minute presentation quoted Alvin Toffler as saying:
The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who can not learn unlearn and relearn.
I liked this comment when I first read it and I have had time to reflect and I realise [...]

http://www.photofunia.com
This is a good free site for taking small images (<500kb) and adding them into templates
have a look at the big pictures…

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Lexipedia  – where words have meaning – this is another visual tool for learning. This one like, visuwords – http://www.visuwords.com/ – allows the user to put in a word and then have it defined, explained and have alternatives provided.
http://www.lexipedia.com
But Lexipedia has an extra trick up its metaphorical sleeve (or was that a virtual sleeve). This [...]

I was twittering earlier today with a colleague from another school and I asked when she was going to come over and visit us.
She replied that she had approached her principal and he had said “Why? we are a mac school and they are PC”
Some people really don’t get it. Visiting schools isn’t about what [...]