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School’s out Friday

Yes, it’s Saturday. I’m late to the mark with this one.

Last night I was sleeping out at school with our Yr 9 students raising money for Daraja Academy and the Bal Ashram in India. I’ll write about the wonderful experience that it was tomorrow.

In the meantime,  The Chasers (who’ve been off our screens for too long) can entertain you with the Citizen infringement officer evaluating hairstyles found on our streets. My daughter was introduced to The Chasers tonight and we spent a very pleasant hour together chuckling away.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I’m going to try and catch up on a bit of sleep!

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Here’s a cautionary tale.

If you can only communicate through the twittersphere you are seriously in trouble!

Going to be a cold and rainy weekend here in Melbourne by the looks of things. A nice excuse to bunker in by the fire I’m thinking and maybe just shoot off a few tweets! Enjoy whatever it is you may be doing.

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I first saw this well over a year ago but it’s a video you never tire of.  The Medieval Help Desk. I still chuckle every time I see it and so do the students I’ve shown it to. It has universal appeal. Below is the Anglicised version that may appeal to some as you don’t have to read the subtitles. Personally, I like the original.

Mother’s Day this weekend. Be kind and give of your time to those important people in our lives. Me, I’ll be up early and off to an under 11 soccer game!

Enjoy the weekend.

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Here’s Hamish Blake at his entertaining best on a television show that airs here in Australia called ‘Thank God you’re here’. The actors have to improvise after walking through a door and finding themselves in a scene where the other actors have a clue about where the scene may be going.  Hamish is always good value and this skit doesn’t fail to disappoint.

Hope you get time to relax and enjoy your weekend.

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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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YouTube now big screen

A tweet from Alec Couras sent me to Open Culture and a post by Dan Coleman alerting us all to the fact that you can now watch some full length documentaries and feature films on YouTube.

*update –  Some films are not available for viewing in Australia. When you click on the video you want to watch you will find a pop up appears if the film is not available for viewing in your country.

Take a look at this screenshot to get some idea of what is available;

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My husband is going to be thrilled to see his all time favourite, Cliffhanger, featured there. (I still can’t bear to watch the opening scene myself!) If you take a look through the categories you’ll find some areas sparse but others quite heavily populated with content. The documentary and biography  section has a number of additions including Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me.

 

Shows are also now available. This is a screenshot of the types of offerings from the Science and Technology category;

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This is another example of the great content available freely on the Web now. Television content on the ABC and SBS sites also stream many of the programs that feature on free to air TV. Not to mention a site like Surf the Channel that enables you to find pretty much any program you like.

Makes we wonder why we in schools invest so much money and manpower in systems like Clickview. The times they are a changin’ and high cost systems in our schools better take note and react with more favourable price options accordingly, or their days will be numbered.   

 

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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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School’s out Friday

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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School’s out Friday

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.