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Best cat name ...a Russian blue called Kilmouski. Coo! Opportunity to lecture... Lots of people think "felix" is latin for cat."Felix" is Latin for "lucky". Further:"Felis", often applied to cats,...

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Wondering

Cracks in the pavementCracks in the glassCracks in the wallsThat I walk pastCracks in my cup Cracks in my faceCracks in the dry dry mudWalking for milesLooking around me, I see your face;Your smile and...

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Resurrection Day

I'm ba-ack...cc by nd: Simon Bridge

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New Computer

Actually a couple ... a wee while ago my beloved hp envy 14 died the final death. This is a shame because the graphite and magnesium case is a work of art I may frame it. What I would love is a laptop...

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Education Blogging

The catalyst for my re-emergence from blogger purgatory (also known as social media - facebook and g+ yes yes I know... but at least I have resisted the pull of twitter) is the start of the TER course...

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TER Day 2: Reflections

Today was dull ... I've always been able to modularize things and tend to get into trouble for thinking out of the box so todays "turn you ideas upside down" stuff is just some expert telling me to do...

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TER day 3 reflections

Inquiry approach applied to teaching... most people followed something like this. I feel this sort of thing is a strength - after all: it's scientific method with less rigour. I have a few examples of...

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TER Day 4: Reflections

I am slammed. Outside life keeps demanding attention ... I have to get this sorted before practicum starts and deal to the first assignments, which I have yet to work on outside class. Lots of time...

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Mini-Simon make things go boom!

What I used to get up to in High School ... I think this was 1984. This was pretty much on the edge then and probably illegal now. I didn't get any assessment credit...

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TER: Day 5 Reflections

Last F2F Day at Epsom; Activity: Bus stop ... getting kids to draw on each other's posters still feels like something for the more disciplined or I risk a cock-n-balls on everything, or tagging. Found:...

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Weekend...

Going over the materials from the last week and making hand-written notes for the 1st assignment. Bioclock woke me up at 6:20am...cc by nd: Simon Bridge

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Imperial Lane in the CBD has great coffee and free WiFi ... ANZAC weekend done and dusted, I can start plowing through the 1st assignment. This is a unit plan - I could just write one from scratch but...

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Physics of Cats

There has to be a lesson in this someplace! Meanwhile I need to keep the link handy.How do cats land on their feet and other marvels.cc by nd: Simon Bridge

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Reflection on Assignment 1

Worries about a friend have been distracting me and now I'm concerned my unit is not the size of the others. It's a physics investigation... I wonder if science units tend to be small? I'll have to get...

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Dangers of analogies in teaching science

... and other issues.AnalogiesMisconceptions arising from teachingcc by nd: Simon Bridge

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1st module compete (sort of)

I am in the Coffee Club on Commerce street using their wifi because Imperial Lane, which is comfier, has a jack-hammer running right outside their door. Just proofed and tweaked the assignment for...

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Wait... wait... PANIC

Disaster - I got distracted with personal issues and missed the deadline for assignment 2!!! I am 1 day 19 hours late getting it in because of this... I can only hope it's going to be OK. After all,...

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Reflections: Practicum Day 1

You know when you've been away from some familiar place for a long time and you think you've forgotten everything but when you get there the old map of the place keeps asserting itself? It's like that....

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Practicum Day 4

Towards the end of a week; tomorrow is a "teacher only day" - which is for prof development etc which I will attend and reflect on but for now... The stand out today was a volunteer to supervise three...

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New Resources

Google Classroomhttps://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/6072460?hl=en ... it's Google. Census at Schoolhttp://new.censusatschool.org.nz/ ... school statistics resources. TES (Times Educational...

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Queen's birthday thoughts

Last Fridays was a "Teacher Only Day" at WHS - this was a day set aside for professional development - in this case, a series of seminars and workshops and um stuff on "Restorative Practice" from the...

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Math L1 NCEA L6

Started some structured teaching for senior maths early - this is because next week (when I would have started teaching) the seniors are all on external exams so no classes. I have a Y11 Math (this...

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Y9 Sci NCEA4-5

Starting Y9 science this coming week. This is a mixed ability group with an unconventional teacher (Anton Ford). Last week his teaching style suddenly snapped into focus and made sense: he assigns...

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Failing!

I'm at the stage where I am seriously questioning the decision to do this course - the question was asked when I signed up. Back then I thought that I mainly needed to update core knowledge, and a bit...

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Waking up... again...

Looks like some very old blog entries are no longer around. I'll see what I can do about that. Meantime, what shall I write about?cc by nd: Simon Bridge

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