The health app on my iPhone tells me we walked 21.7km today and 18.6km yesterday. Today we only took day packs as we are staying at the same place. It’s…
Author: Madeleine Brookes
After a minor hiccup (we got on the wrong bus at the airport) we made it in the rain to Tokashima and stayed in a small business hotel – nothing…
We are getting ready for our walk this summer. This time we are off to explore the Shikoku Henro Trail which is Japan’s famous 88 temple pilgrimage, a 1200km loop…
This week I’ve really experienced the power of Twitter. On Tuesday we had an excellent #l2chat hosted by the fabulous trio: team @sherrattsam, @lori_uemura and our own @FriedEnglish101 posing as @learning2…
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The following is an assignment submitted as part of the Master of Education (Knowledge Networks and Digital Innovation) through Charles Sturt University in NSW, Australia. Pink, D. H. (2011). Drive: The…
We don’t have a formal coding class however we do have many, many wannabe coders in our school and we do have an extra-curricular Geek Force club who decided that our goal…
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Are in a role where you are constantly having to demonstrate to students and colleagues how to do ‘stuff’ on your computer and find that you have so much clutter your…
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Would you trade your Facebook data for food at a supermarket? I stumbled across this video as I was doing some research with my students on Big Data in Supermarkets as…
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