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GREEN RIDERS: Southeast Asia

By On June 3, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Design, Experiential Education, Ideas in Education, Outdoor Education, Service Learning, Travel

I haven’t been pushing it much, but in just over three weeks I’ll be on the road for the summer, riding a bamboo bike thousands of kilometers across Southeast Asia in pursuit of stories of environmental struggles and successes, as well as interesting examples of social enterprise.

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Bring Me the Head of a VZ200

By On May 15, 2012 · 5 Comments · In COETAIL, Design, Technology in the Classroom

When I was around ten my grandfather bought me a computer. With a little research I’ve discovered it was a VZ200 (thanks old-computers.com). I plugged it into an old school 12 inch black and white TV. It had no hard drive or anything like […]

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Literacy vs Knowledge

By On May 13, 2012 · 1 Comment · In COETAIL, Design, Literacy, Technology in the Classroom

I love this.
I love it when you read something that manages to express a belief you know you’ve held for some time, without ever having found the words or means to put it out into the world. It’s just happened to me.

I was revisiting the website Route 21, […]

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That was Zen. This is now.

By On March 21, 2012 · 6 Comments · In COETAIL, Design, Technology in the Classroom

Arriving at Yokohama International School I was confronted, 2 weeks in, with our kick-off Back to School Night. The three of us second grade teachers crammed 50+ attending parents into one small classroom, on unfortunately petite chairs, and proceeded to stumble our way through a Powerpoint.

It felt stilted, like […]

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3 Tools for Digital Storytelling: Karakoram Bridge

By On March 18, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Class Blog, COETAIL, Design, Literacy, Technology in the Classroom, Travel

There are such a wealth of digital storytelling tools out there, that it’s always a challenge for me to know which ones to suggest for my students. Today I decided to try an experiment. I took a series of a few photos, chose a range of tools, and decided to have a go at telling […]

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