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I think this is truly wonderful. It was a promotional stunt for a television program in Belgium. They were looking for someone to play the lead in a version of ‘The Sound of Music’. It occurred at Central Station Antwerp in Belgium and is reminiscent of improveverywhere’s Frozen Grand Central.  

200 people participated with only two rehearsals before the stunt was staged at 8.00am in the morning. I just love the way you can see those watching become actively involved and full of the joy of song and dance.

Thanks Milly for showing it to your Mum who then showed it to me. Very glad that you come and visit here on the odd occasion too!

Hope you all have a great weekend.   

 

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John Connell referred to this TED Talk in his keynote address today athe Digital Fair run by the Australian College of Educators. I’ll post more about that later tonight hopefully.

On the TED site it says this about the talk by Stuart Brown;

A pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults — and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.

There are some wonderful scenes involving a polar bear and and a tethered husky. I’m sure you’ll be moved.

Enjoy your weekend. I certainly intend to! Last one before a return to work on Monday.

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Now this is clever.

It’s an interactive Easter Egg hunt on YouTube uploaded by naders07. What you do is watch the video that has been annotated by Nadine. You can tell it’s annotated because square boxes appear on the screen. When you click on one of these it takes you to another YouTube  video from Nadine where she reveals whether or not you have discovered an Easter treat. All told, Nadine has uploaded fourteen videos to YouTube for our Easter Egg hunting pleasure. I, for one, am pretty impressed by this feat. My 10 yr old son and I have had a lot of fun seeing if our guesses our correct.

 

Thanks go to Jarrod Robinson (MrRobbo on Twitter) for tweeting about this. Just what I needed today Jarrod. Thanks.  

I hope all of you (whoever you may be!)  have a lovely Easter break.  Enjoy the time spent with family and good friends.

 

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Today is end of term here in Melbourne; school holidays now for two glorious weeks. It’s been a hectic last few weeks so these holidays are a much needed break.

This is a great video so make sure you watch it. It was uploaded to our Yr 9 ning this week, recommended for inclusion by one of our students who saw the parallels between it and the attitudes to women in 1960’s Australia. This, all a result of our text study of ‘Bye, Beautiful’, which was set in country Western Australia 1966.  Nothing better than a student making connections between something they’re watching and what’s been discussed in class. Makes it all worth it.

Enjoy the weekend. I’m looking forward to sleeping in and no correction!

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It’s been such a busy week I haven’t had time to get here and post anything about  the SLAV conference on Monday, or our face to face PLP meeting with Will Richardson that was held at my school on Tuesday.  But get here I will this weekend, when I can see light after the pile of correction that has occupied my thinking.

I like this. It’s one of those clever ads with the slow reveal and the aha moment at the end.

Enjoy the weekend and whatever comes your way.

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This is ‘Lost Generation’, and it was second place getter in the ARRP U@50 competition. According to its creator, it is based on the Argentinian Political Advertisement “The Truth” by RECREAR.     

My friend Nina discovered it a couple of weeks ago and uploaded it to Working together 2 make a difference. (Which, by the way, is starting to take off. I am really excited by the activity and service learning projects that are forming there. Please take a look and get involved if you think it might be good for your students.)

This week my husband dicovered it and suggested it for School’s out Friday. It’s very clever, and excellent for class discussion I think. I’ve uploaded it to our Yr 9 ning  and am hoping to use it in class next week. Those of you who teach young people will know, like I do, that they majority of them reflect the representation depicted in the second stage of the video. 

While you’re at it, check out Nina’s blog. She’s two months in, has received a swag of hits and is making connections for her prep students. All really good stuff.

 Hope the weekend treats you well.

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You know, sometimes you plan to get things done and then life just gets in the way.

It did last night as I was thinking about posting School’s out Friday. My Mum had an ‘episode’ and after calling an ambulance and spending the night at the hospital we found out she’d had a mild stroke. She’s OK, and needs to have some follow up tests, but she has no permanent damage.  

Moments like those are wake up calls; I have been so busy and haven’t given Mum the time she needs of late. Facing the mortality of your parents is confronting and makes you reassess things. I’m thankful we’ve had this chance to realise there’s a problem and hopefully something can be done to ensure we avoid further problems.   

So, time for listening to a song that makes me feel good about things. Love the music, love the lyrics, love everything about it.  It’s Jason Mraz singing ‘I’m yours’. ( and thanks go to Carolyn Wojtera on Twitter who helped me out when I couldn’t remember the artist or name of the song!)  

Enjoy.  Hope the weekend treats you well.

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I’ve been really busy this week and hardly had time to post anything. And I should have because some great things happened this week. I’ll get to it tomorrow, I promise.

My husband sent me this video during the week to brighten my day at school. It’s a great study in human reaction to the unknown. Enjoy.

I hope your weekend treats you well. Children’s birthday week for me here – Double digits for one and teenager for the other. Two in the one week. I know, what was I thinking!

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Back to my faves this week. Charlie Todd’s improveverywhere crew has been up to their improvising best with this effort.  High Five Escalator,  involves Agent Lathan giving out 2,000 high fives by standing next to a subway escalator during the morning rush. I just love watching peoples’ faces transform from impassive to animated as they embrace the fun on offer.

It’s a pretty simple task to make people feel good as they go about their day. Try something out next week – smile at your co-workers and say something that makes them feel good. If you wish to remain anonymous, try a random act of kindness. Go on, I dare you. Bet you’ll feel better in the process too.

Even better still, try it out this weekend.  Enjoy.