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This is the post that I had to write. Normally, I try to avoid topics like this, simply because it’s not worth the grief – there’s little I have to say that hasn’t already been said a hundred times over in much larger forums than this little blog, and I’m fairly confident that the only…

I make a habit of flicking through the teaching position advertisements fairly regularly, whether that’s the old paper version or the online version. I’ve found teachers.on.net to be pretty good for this purpose, although it is hard to beat the SMH section. Anyway, something that I have noticed recently is that there are increasing numbers…

So, after the debacle that was my first attempt at writing, I decided to revisit my plan and did what I should have done in the first place. I’ve revisited my notebooks – some of which are more than three years old and gone through and added to my note-taking system. Now, when I come…

So, 100 000 words to go – approximately. That doesn’t include all the hideous editing that I wil lface, plus the hundred small annoyances that go along with footnoting and revising and layout and presentation. I’m a little bit staggered at what I appear to have taken on, here. At least, I was, until I…

Canberra is a city of transition. It’s a place of change. It’s forever caught between states, never quite existing fully in either one. It’s a funny idea for a capital city, but then, Canberra’s a funny kind of capital city. There’s something peculiar about it – a city designed for the fledgeling Australia by an…

Finally, I’ve reached that stage of my PhD where the writing can commence! I think this is the part that most students find challenging – I’m sure I will, but so far I’ve really enjoyed the experience. Doing it part time has allowed me to adopt a far more leisurely pace, which has been enjoyable,…

Like I imagine most teachers did, I read the details of the Gonski reforms with a degree of tiredness, trepidation and more than a little cynicism. Again, like most teachers, I felt pretty pleased at the increased levels of funding, and funding based on the needs of every child rather than the type of school,…

There’s been a lot of talk about iBooks Author and iTunes U recently in education circles, especially as the iPad makes its way into the educational systems in Australia. It’s a pretty exciting prospect, I must admit. For those of you who don’t know, iBooks Author allows teachers to create their own textbooks – but…

Recently, I was fortunate to attend an Apple Distinguished Educator’s event for South East Asia. It was a brilliant event – there’s no doubting that Apple, at this time, has the will and the desire, as well as the tools, to engage in a campaign of digital destruction of education – after all, I don’t…

Carrying on from my previous post, where I bemoaned the fact that lockers shouldn’t really have a place in schools anymore, or at least not in the form that they currently have, I started seeing lots of other things that I think schools should get rid off. The next thing that I noticed was the…