Educating the Dragon

Came across this today. And having listened very carefully I’ve formally lowered my opinion of MACs. Andrea Bennett, at the end of this video sums up my initial reaction rather well.

I’m beginning to convert to MAC.

Having spent the day putting imovie and iphoto through their paces I can see why, "when you use a MAC you’ll not want to back" (- if that catchphrase has not been coined yet I’ll take a grand a pop thanks). The use is so effortless. I was very fortuate to be lent the MAC for the day. But what sort is it. I never realised they can in different sizes. I know the big desktop with the CPU in the screen and I know the Macbook, imac?? Is this an ibox?? or something else? Anyone?

What a fantastic day here in Nelson. A busy morning putting a presentation together, don’t ask why I was looking at forklift trucks this morning but I came across this educational use of stop motion animation.

My afternoon was spent out at Mapua (not on the GPS!) we thought we would be late but as it turned out all was well.
I’ve spent a session working in Easiteach for some MAC users with the Interwrite board. Some of it was a learning curve for me too… not a big MAC user, me.
Possibly the highlight of the day was catching up with AllanahK for coffees and a chat. We spent a lovely evening talking our way through the edublogsphere. Good luck with the class tomorrow! Looking forward to catching up with Rachel tomorrow.
Often it is quite easy to lose perspective of Web2.0 and its uptake in New Zealand schools. But from where I’m sitting there is certainly a mind shift of teachers as a whole at least being to wonder about it all and beginning to ask questions. I have a whole raft of after school workshops to deliver designed as a introduction to blogging, podcasting, wikis and the like. It’ll be interesting to note over the coming year the uptake of those, especially as ICTPD funding is beginning to reduce over the next couple of years and op grants are being stretched to max.