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.
You have really go to watch this… As I listened to it I thought, we educators, I’M an educators. What can I do about? I impact, say 28 kids a year for the next 33 years, that’s 924 kids I can impact on for the future… our future and to name a cliche, their future.
Go Here for the talk
“I don’t think we’re going to make it,” John Doerr proclaims, in an emotional talk about climate change and investment. Spurred on by his daughter, who demanded he fix the mess the world is heading for, he and his partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers embarked on a greentech world tour — surveying the state of the art, from the ethanol revolution in Brazil to Wal-mart’s (!) eco-concept store in Bentonville, Arkansas. KPCB is investing $200 million in green technologies to save the planet and make a profit to boot. But, Doerr fears, it may not be enough.
Just having a conversation with Durff about this Ning thing, more specifically how the majority of those involved are US, Australia/NZ, some from
Europe and then one or two from other places.
The point we were talking about was how do get those from other places, eg. Africa, Far East or
Eastern Europe involved? We are where we are and in contact (via Internet) with those we have contact with. How can we encourage those from further away involoved in the conversations in the Edublogosphere via Ning for example. As I am typing this I’m thinking about Second Life, but how we connect in there? TakingITGlobal has large numbers from around the globe, can we encourage them to spread their cyber-wings and join the conversation?
Hmmmmm is how we left our converstion. Any thoughts…Anybody?
