Educating the Dragon

I began my first day at my new school today. Every Wednesday I will be working with some students in need of assistance with their writing. They are a great lot and I had a fun day, but that is not why I am posting.

At lunchtime today some Japanese students from the International Pacific College turned up at school and blessed, and blasted, us on the Taiko. These were fantastically talented students who had been playing for between one and four years. There was a audible ‘Wow!” from the audience when the answer to “How often do you practise th be that good?” came back- “Twice a week, for 3 hours.”

These students are dedicated and talented. What a treat. I managed to take a few pictures and a short video (60 seconds) before my memory card was full- doh!

Sorry I couldn’t share more with you, enjoy.

Another little insight into youthful visions of the future

The title of this post is the name of Peter Kent’s shiny new blog, pop along and encourage him. In his second post he shares a whole heap of links to research carried out by himself and other on using the IWB in the classroom. They are well worth a look, particularly if your school is considering spending a truck load of cash on them. Thanks, Peter.

Thanks Chris…. If you don’t follow him, you should. But he shared this video, well worth 5 minutes 36 seconds of your life.

There is a new episode on My Podomatic.

Longbeach School has hit the headlines and I’m feeling a little discouraged by the Minister’s response.