Monthly Archives: July 2009

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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