Well I have made it to the airport and I am enjoying the hospitality of the Air NZ Lounge. I have to say the best advertisement for becoming a Koru Club member is being let into the lounge.
I am sitting here prep’ing for what promises to be a busy and very interesting week. Other than [...]
Today, we had the pleasure of hosting the ACCE study tour group as they made their way around the world to the NECC conference in Washington DC, USA.
It is a pleasure to have groups like this visit, it presents us, the visitors and hosts, with the opportunity to examine your practices, procedures and facilities. To [...]
A few years ago, I attended a conference in South Africa. In a pre conference tour I visited Robben Island, the notorious prison that housed Political prisoners during the bleak days of aparitied
The prison is a tourist attraction and a monument to the conflict and struggle. I have uploaded to flickr some of my images [...]
This week has been exciting and fun. ISNZ – independent schools of New Zealand held the annual conference for Heads, Bursars and boards in Wellington. This year had a different twist to the opening and closing keynote addresses.
The opening keynote was Martin Westwell of Flinders University. He was presenting to the conference on Nueroscience, education [...]
Well I am back from the MYSA conference. The conference as an excellent Middle years conference and a good ICT conference. I am very pleased that the 10 year drought that has afflicted Brisbane has broken, but if I am honest I wish it could have broken after my visit.
For me the Keypoints were:
1. Visit [...]
This is one of the highlights of the conference. It was hugely enhanced because on Tuesday Proffessor Phillip Long hosted myself and my colleagues at the University of Queensland. We had the great privillage of touring the new learning spaces around the campus. This is my second visit to UQ and it was great to [...]
This was a presentation from Scotch College In Perth by their IT and MYP coordinator, Ben Beaton. Unfortunately the session was a tad slow or perhaps the presentation to full so only 2/3 rd of the presentation was completed. The interesting stuff – Scotch’s use of mobile tools was the part left out. The presentation [...]
I enjoyed this Keynote. Marco is a American educator, producer (Film), parent, politician etc. He started on a great high point by showing his Livescribe Pen (I have one they are sooooooo cool) and then in a rambling presentation discusses his view on education. A view I would like to say I mostly agree with.
Here [...]
The pre confernce workshop I booked into was Urban Outdoor education. The two presnters were a principal instructor/teacher from a state funded outdoor education facility and the DP at a local state school.
The session started by mirroring an activity they do with students. It involved:
briefing the students (us)
journeying to the location
doing the task
reviewing/debriefing
To start they [...]
This week I am heading across the ditch to Brisbane to attend the MYSA Conference (MYSA – Middle Years Schooling Association), But its is taking me out of class for 3 days.
So I have to prepare relief for my classes and I have work that I want the students to cover. With all the best [...]
