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Digital Explorers … new ground? April 28, 2012Posted by IaninSheffield in Musings, Teaching Idea.
Tags: cross-curricular, Curriculum, Digital Explorers, ict
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Eight students arrived for our first Digital Explorers Club on Thursday lunchtime earlier this week; a small, but helpfully manageable number to start.
The thinking behind the Explorers Club is to address a number of issues that have been giving me pause for thought. Following an audit of ICT across our curriculum and a review of students' experiences of ICT, it became apparent that opportunities to move beyond the bounds of the familiar are rare. For whatever reasons (and that could be a whole post on its own) the majority of students for the most part, play safe and stick to the familiar territory of Word, PowerPoint & Google, with a brave few experimenting with MovieMaker and more recently Prezi. The interesting thing is that they haven't encountered MovieMaker or Prezi as part of the formal curriculum. Neither is covered in ICT lessons. What seems to have happened is that a more adventurous student or member of staff has used Moviemaker or Prezi (or has suggested its use) and that's been the catalyst to pique the interest of some brave or adventurous souls who then went away and learned how to use and apply those applications themselves. It's not for the faint-hearted – we still occasionally get students drop by the office saying their Moviemaker file won't work and it inevitable transpires they weren't aware that their composition hadn't been rendered into the final movie. But that's part of the learning process and an accepted part of being an early adopter. The interesting thing is that, having now been around for a while, creating movies is becoming almost accepted practice; it's not unusual for students to ask if they can produce a movie to satisfy a particular task they've been set. Prezi, at least in school, only surfaced more recently, but it's clear that it too is beginning to percolate more widely. Growth and expansion of new and alternative applications seem to be occurring organically from within the student body, rather than being mandated as part of what they have to learn. I find that intriguing.
Digital Explorers then is intended as a 'seeding' process through which applications less familiar to students (and staff) can be introduced. Clearly some will fall on stony ground, but others may pass over into the mainstream and over a period of time, students' experiences become broader and richer.
The choice to name the club Explorers wasn't taken lightly. I've heard it expressed on several occasions that we 'spoonfeed' the students too much and that they in turn come to rely heavily on being provided with a sense of direction by their teachers. My intention then is that Explorers Club will challenge that notion by offering activities in a different way to those encountered in the classroom, where suggested routes are offered, but the Explorers themselves choose and forge their path, using their companions for support. Each week my intention is to suggest a region (it could be creating an avatar, making an animation or recording a podcast), offer possible routes, then allow the Explorers to plough their own furrow, taking things as far as they choose and in the direction they choose. OK in fairness I ought to mention that I also have a hidden agenda and want to sprinkle in elements of safety and ethical use of ICT, but I think that's fair … and definitely prudent!
My intention also is to keep as hands off as possible, so the tasks will be introduced using our learning platform together with Edmodo. The former means that the activities we undertake can be shared more widely since students unable to physically attend Digital Explorers for the F2F sessions can still participate. The latter offers another fresh environment for the students to explore and having its own app, perhaps a more efficient and timely way to communicate. I have some idea of possible areas for exploration, but hope to be guided by the interests of the Explorers. As they become more familiar and comfortable with the concept, the hope is that they will relish the opportunity for greater autonomy. With luck in two or three years I'll be redundant as they become an independent, self-sustaining, self-regulating group with its own sense of purpose. Well OK, I can dream can't I? Small acorns and all that.
As well as the quality, feel the WIDTH … August 21, 2011Posted by IaninSheffield in Inspiration, Musings.
Tags: assessment, Curriculum, gaming, ict, self-evaluation, self-study
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For some while now I've felt that the ICT many students in school are exposed to, struggles to represent the ICT those students experience in their everyday lives, nor that with which they might need to become comfortable and facile as they move into higher education, work or adulthood. In school they seem to learn about and with the usual industry-standard applications, yet occupy a
world where Internet connectivity and mobile devices provide access to untold riches across a range of applications to support their work, learning and play. But our schemes of work (and the specifications which drive them?) seem to limit and restrict, rather than liberate. Given the formal nature of our assessment systems and the need to obtain nationally recognised qualifications, perhaps that's hardly surprising.
I've been mulling over for some while now the means by which we might extend the range of ICT opportunities we provide for our learners. To offer chances beyond the formal system … which by its very nature struggles to respond to the rapidly developing environment that is ICT. But how?
There were certain factors which I felt were important to incorporate:
- Participation by students should be voluntary.
- It should work alongside and with our current ICT provision, yet not impact on the workload of the colleagues teaching it. Consequently this would likely need to be some form of supported self-study (with some element of self-evaluation?).
- The areas covered should explore new tools and the new affordances they bring.
- The architecture should be extensible in the sense that new 'modules' can be added as needed to further extend and enhance provision.
- Tasks undertaken should link with other areas of the students' studies, providing authentic opportunities to develop skills.
- There may be lessons to learn from the principles of gaming, both in providing motivation to participate, degree of challenge and monitoring and rewarding progress.
- The facility to develop communities of practice should be an integral aspect, so that students support (and assess?) each other.
Now let's consider Jenny, a Y9 (14 yr old) student who has been set a homework task by a teacher. The class have been working on a group activity over the past few lessons and the teacher wants them to summarise and present their findings … they're often asked to do this in different subjects. Sometimes they get a choice of which medium they use, digital or not and sometimes they're told to do it in a certain way. Jenny can produce a PowerPoint presentation standing on her head; she's been developing her skills since Y5. So have the rest of her group. But they always struggle when it come to dividing the labour; should they all work on different slides then bring them together. Or should they take different roles, someone collecting imagery, someone else writing the text and someone else editing it all together? What's more, they've not yet mastered the techniques which the PP platform offers for team working and collaboration (well, that's not in any of the schemes of work so they wouldn't have). Perhaps there's an alternative technology which might set their presentation apart from the others, or one which offers greater potential for collaboration, synchronous or otherwise.
It's to provide support for this kind of situation that I want to work on. Provide an environment from which students can extend their learning of ICT skills beyond that which they normally encounter. Somewhere they might go to address a shortcoming they might have or even just out of interest and curiosity … or even maybe just for fun!
Lots of thinking still to do so any thoughts you have, do please drop them in the comments. Am I just being fanciful?
#TwitterBookRead September 1, 2010Posted by IaninSheffield in CPD, Inspiration, research.
Tags: books, collaboration, Curriculum, reading, research, twitter
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Well that proved a really interesting experiment . . . but did I gain anything from it?
If you missed the tweets, yesterday I tried using Twitter to record my progress and any points of interest as I read a book – Curriculum 21 by Heidi Hayes Jacobs. There's a little more about it here. I guess I wanted to find out whether it added anything to the process of reading, reading for academic purposes that is, as opposed to reading for pleasure. Had I been reading the book sans Twitter, I'd have made notes as I went. If you want to pick up the record of what took place, there's a Twapper Keeper archive here, but because a few Tweets didn't have the hashtag, I scanned back through the stream and pulled them into the document below:
On the 'upside' then:
- 140 characters meant I had to really focus on the contents and structure of the 'notes' I was taking, so that they still carried meaning.
- The 'chronology' of the stream means the notes follow the order of the book.
- Having occasional comments from other tweeple challenged me to revisit some of my notes and rephrase them, or think more deeply about what I'd noted.
- It's very encouraging when others are taking an interest in what you're studying (a very important point methinks!)
On the 'downside':
- I perhaps wasn't as prolific in my notetaking as I would normally have been, conscious of not wishing to pollute the Twitterstream too much with my ramblings (folks can get very tetchy!)
- Sometimes squeezed a little too hard to fit the message into 140 characters and consequently may have lost meaning.
- The 'linear' nature of the stream meant that cross-linking ideas and concepts wasn't really possible; I'll often take notes in the form of a mind map, if I think I can gain something.
- Although the stream is linear, some of the additional comments and follow-up replies come out of order. This can make the archive a little hard to follow.
So weighing the balance of the above, the obvious question I guess is 'what next?' How (or should) I take it any further? Well it's a start and having done it once, repeating the process with another book would enable some of the wrinkles to be ironed out. I certainly think I'd like to be on the receiving end; watching someone else take the lead and contributing as an observer. With that in mind, earlier today John Pallister made a couple of interesting comments by way of follow up:
Now there's an idea! If other people undertook the task when they're reading, we could begin to form a library of summaries of interesting literature. Better than simple summaries though because they would have the additional layer of comments from others who had joined in. #TwitterBookRead as John termed it. It's a win-win-win endeavour surely:
- the reader is perhaps encouraged to think more carefully about the 'notes' s/he is making, in the same way creating a blog post often makes us think twice before hitting the keys
- collaborators/observers can dip in and out as they are able, enjoying the opportunity to contribute to the final product
- all get access to a swelling archive of summarised books, enabling them to make a more informed choice before parting with their hard-earned on the full version . . . or maybe find inspiration and pointers to books they might have otherwise missed.
Anyone up for taking this further?
And perhaps this doesn't have to be restricted just to the edtech community in Twitter. Surely there are potential benefits for our learners, whether they be students in higher ed or primary or secondary for that matter. Working together to review/summarise/précis books or longer articles using the 140 character format could involve a host of different skills. In a single activity, there are opportunities to work up through the levels in Bloom's taxonomy, undertaking increasingly complex tasks, leading to a higher levels of understanding surely than just reading an article/book sitting at a desk or lounging on a couch? Reading with a purpose surely?
Just needs fleshing out a little. Anyone?
(Footnote: If you want to see a much more elegant and thorough summary of the book itself, then check out this post from Silvia Tolisano (@langwitches) – it's what inspired me to buy the book)
Maths Maps . . . but across the curriculum? December 22, 2009Posted by IaninSheffield in Inspiration, Teaching Idea.
Tags: collaboration, Curriculum, Google maps, teaching resource
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I'm lucky to work in a school that's a member of a wider partnership, a sisterhood, a community. If there's an issue I'm struggling with and no-one here who is in a position to help, I know I've colleagues in that wider network to whom I can turn. Other colleagues here in school however, don't recognise that they could do that too and bemoan the fact that they feel isolated . . . but then they haven't
- had the chance to meet other colleagues from our community in the same way I have
- yet begun to establish a PLN to which they can turn.
When @tombarrett produced his first Maths Map (do check it out; Tom explains the principle so well) ) and invited his PLN to contribute, I wondered whether this might be a way to open links between colleagues in our partnership? I began to envisage a project where I'd take interested colleagues here through the principles of setting up a Google Map along the same lines as Tom's Maths Maps, but from any curriculum area. Once they've initiated their map, they would then contact colleagues in sister schools and invite them to join (we have a global address list which should make that easy).
Now I know that some colleagues may struggle to see how they can get started i.e. they just can't spot a topic that they can 'ground' (pardon pun!) in a map. I had no problems in the area with which I'm most familiar and was able to initiate this Physics map on the topic of Energy Resources:
. . . but what about other topics in other curriculum areas? Can anyone help? What topic from your curriculum area could use a Google Map to provoke, stimulate or open a discussion and provide a backdrop for a Maths Map-like exercise? If you have an idea and can spare a moment, could you pop it into this form and we'll see where it goes. (Will post a follow-up and feedback on how the project went, together links to any maps we create)
Thanks to @bevevans22 for a couple of great ideas:


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[Admin Luke] If you are in Melbourne, Democracy in Colour have organised a bus trip to the ACT to join Clinton in Canberra on September 3!
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[Admin Luke] Sydney people – Democracy in Colour have organised a bus trip to join Clinton in Canberra on September 3! Tickets have already been subsidised and can be purchased through Eventbrite:
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[Admin Toby] In a movement to educate wider Australians of ongoing Indigenous wage discrimination, during the lead up to the 50th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk-off in August 2016, a flash mob style "art installation" was staged as a form of protest which took social media by storm.
The First Nations Workers' Alliance followed as a new organisation formed alongside the Australian Unions. With CDP workers and the community they serve to give a voice to workers being exploited, while campaigning to end the CDP and replace it with a program that works for Indigenous people rather than oppressing them.
We were really pleased to see Zachary Joseph Wone caught up with Clinton in La Perouse!
Here is more info about FNWA from Australian Unions:
The Turnbull Government's Community Development Program (CDP) is depriving tens of thousands of people of that opportunity. It's punitive, heavy-handed and racially discriminatory and the Union movement is determined to see it removed.
CDP workers are not actually classified as workers. They get well below the minimum wage (the dole pays $11.60/hour or $290/week) for working for 25 hours a week for non-profit and now for-profit businesses.
They are not covered by the Fair Work Act, they don't have Federal OHS protections or workers compensation and they can't take annual leave, sick leave or carer's leave.
Those under the CDP are forced to work up to three times longer than city-based jobseekers to receive welfare payments.
CDP workers have 70 times the financial penalties imposed upon them than non-remote dole workers.
Fines for missing activities under CDP – which coverers a tiny fraction of the population – account for more than half the total penalties across the entire welfare system.
FNWA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/firstnationsworkersalliance/
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Good morning guys please donate we need all the help donation we get for the team to get food equipment and other thing we need and after Canberra it the long drive back home to Perth. Please share and tell your family an friend about the walk for justice about the event on September the 3th also tell them to help donate.
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our under 15 hurlers were invited to Crossabeg Ballymurn Co wexford to take part in a blitz they were holding. Kilmacow, Cranford and Crossabeg/Ballymurn also took part. Our lads played all teams and the home team in the final and beat allin front of them. The final was close enough until a burst of brilliance in the last quarter blew the host away. As one local man said..'Thats Kilkenny for you, you think you have them beat and they destroy you in ten minutes!' well done lads.
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A great celebration was held in honour of Walter Walsh last Saturday evening. A convoy of cars and Walters carriage descended the hill to Rosbercon passing blazing bonfires to the sound of cheers and horns blowing. All the activity brought out the gardai and Fire Brigade and it looked like a St Patricks day parade. The event was a very happy celebration and Walter posed for photos with young and old and signed all that was put in fron of him. He returns to our clubhouse with the 'Liam McCarthy Cupon the 24th of Noveber for another celebration for the juveniles and afterwards in Ryans pub for the not so young.
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Havish means Lord Shiva, was just a hard stone before 'Genius' but became polished diamond post 'Genius', Dasari Kiran Kumar Who produced 'Genius' movie was impressed with Havish's work and immediately roped him for his next project titled 'Ramleela'.
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This discussion and list does not necessarily include every book by Hoban: it includes only those books that I both know and like. Just as with the author list itself, omission of a particular item may mean I didn't think highly enough of the omitted item, or it may simply mean that I have not yet sufficient familiarity with it. (In a very few cases, I have listed some books merely on the strength of my opinion of the author: all such books are clearly marked below, as throughout these lists, with a hash mark (#) before the title so you know what's what.)
I don't pretend that this discussion is a deep analysis. My intent is no more than to give you a rough idea of what kinds of tales Hoban tells, how those tales are usually told, and what makes them and Hoban worthy; in sum, to help you rank Hoban (and the works by Hoban listed here) on your personal literary "to do" list.
Having so far read only four of Hoban's many novels, I have decidely mixed feelings about his work. Of the four, two were very good, one excellent, and one--though well-written in a sheer writerly sort of way--was pretentiously obvious (or obviously pretentious).
Hoban seems to me a man possessed of keen enough writerly skills, by which I mean he can put words and thoughts on paper in language that is well crafted and pleasing to read. He also seems to have, at times anyway, meaningful things to say about the human condition. So far, so good, but Hoban is in some ways his own worst enemy as a writer; indeed, we can make "some" read "two", and enumerate them.
First, he characteristically lacks a sense of restraint, riding too often well over the top. Zaniness can be a masterly virtue so long as its user has a sound idea where the border lies beyond which wit fades into mere cleverness or something feebler yet, but Hoban does not seem to see that line with much clarity. We would, I daresay, like to think of ourselves as at least a shade more sophisticated than the common reader of John Bunyan's time, but Hoban feels we need a parade in which march characters with names like Pilgermann, Kleinzeit, Orff; but bad as "Orff" may be (are you shocked to discover that he is a writer?), surely the prize goes to Helen Gorn. Hoban spent years writing children's books before he essayed adult novels; I guess you can take the book out of the boy, but not the boy out of the book.
Hoban's second regrettable tendency is, to be blunt, occasional banality of ideas. The urge to yield The Great Hammer of Obviousness is one to which all too many writers, often of substantial writerly talent, succumb on occasion, or even more often (consider the famous epithet "Good Ursula, Bad Ursula" for Ursula K. Le Guin). The Hammer can be wielded in either or both of two ways: a basically sound point can be ludicrously over-elaborated, or a relatively trite thought can be made the focus of the auctorial celebrations. Hoban can slip either way, but the second is more common with him. A book devoted entire to the idea of the creative process need not be banal per se, but Hoban's Medusa Frequency (though scarcely alone in this) was.
But when Hoban can stay in the saddle, he is an excellent writer, by turns charming, profound, savage, and deep. Since I can heartily recommend at least two of his books, I suppose I owe it to myself to try some more, to see which is the "real" Russell Hoban--so this discussion will be revised, possibly much revised, at some time in the middle future.
Meanwhile, here is at least a taste of Hoban's actual writing:
Jachin-Boaz had a wife and a son, and he lived in a town far from the sea. Pigeons flew up from the square, circled above it, and came down to perch on clay walls, red roof tiles. The fountain sent up a slim silver jet among old women in black. The dogs knew where everything was, and went through the alleyways behind the shops like businessmen. The cats looked down from high places, disappeared around corners. Many of the women did their washing in stone sinks near the town pump. Tourists going through the town in buses looked out through windows at the merchants who sold brass and ivory and rugs drinking coffee in the shade of awnings. The vendors of fruit and vegetables smoked in the street.
A man who can write that paragraph is clearly a man whose work is well worth exploring further. Nor is that a specially plucked flower: here is another random selection from the same book:
Boats sink under me, thought Boaz-Jachin. Cars get smashed. At a farm he leaned against a fence and looked into the eyes of a goat. "What?" he asked the goat. "Give Urim or give Thummim." The goat turned away. Goats turn away, though Boaz-Jachin.
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz was Hoban's first novel for adults, and in a sense its writing is some of his "purest"--that is, almost wholly lacking in contrivance. Ten years and four novels later, in Pilgermann, we find this:
I, Pilgermann, poor bare tuned fork, humming with the foreverness of the Word that is always Now. Unbearing the Unbearable, intolerating the Intolerable, being not enough for the Too-Muchness. I, poor harp of a Jew twanging incessantly in the mouth of Jesus, in the lion-mouth of Christ Pandamator, Christ All-Subduer. There is a point where pattern becomes motion; the pattern has found me and I must move, must be aware of moving, must be a motion, an action of the Word. Poor bare tuned fork.
That is still good writing, but it is a different kind of good writing; it is perhaps a particularly florid extract torn from context, but it shows, I think, how close Hoban sails to pretentiousness even when he manages to skirt its reefs. In Pilgermann, for one at any rate, he avoids shipwreck and brings home to port a whacking great cargo of a novel; but he is not always quite so adept at sailing the storm-tost Sea of Metaphor.
In Pilgermann one can forgive Hoban some occasional excess (because it is never wretched excess) because he is dealing with large, complex issues in--for him, anyway--a relatively subtle manner. And the book is not entirely constituted of such prose as I have just quoted. For example:
"I'm so sorry you're dead," I said. "It's a great loss to me that you could only die once; it would be such a pleasure to kill you." Thinking as I said it that these dead ones were already like a family to me.
"It means nothing at all," said the bear, "whatever you see in the sky." The arrows that had killed him were still in him, they nodded as he walked upright with the others. "There's been a Great Bear in the sky all these years and even a Lesser Bear as well and nothing's come of it, nothing at all."
"Did you think anything would come of it?" I said.
"Of course not," he said. "Why should I. You can see anything you like in the sky, anything at all. And what it means is anything at all."
"That man who killed you," I said. "What do you think he's doing now?"
"He's looking for another bear," said the bear. "He's hopeless, he's incapable of learning."
With Hoban, clearly one needs to pick and choose. But when one chooses fortunately, one gets wonderful work.
There is a dedicated Hoban web site, The Head of Orpheus. It includes pages with links to Hoban analyses and discussions, many internal to the site. Beyond that, there's curiously little considering his stature--a few scattered brief interviews and one-off reviews of particular books, plus The Usual Suspects.
One Hoban-related site of especial utility is Riddley Walker Annotations, which will help readers better follow that maze-y book. Another is the Yahoo Hoban discussion group, The Kraken. Beyond those (and what The Head of Orpheus links), Google Is Your Friend.
There are at least two books wholly about Hoban:
Russell Hoban/Forty Years: Essays on His Writings for Children, Alida Allison, editor
Through the Narrow Gate: the Mythological Consciousness of Russell Hoban by Christine Wilkie
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In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the 1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical trend and making Asian Americans the country's fastest growing racial group. What does transpacific history look like if the arc of the story is extended to the present?
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A lens is a tool. Most people forget that for some reason but simply enough, a lens is a tool that we use to make an image. Like all tools, at the risk of overextending the analogy, the better the tool, the better the finished project.
In our last installment, we discussed the basic facts related to lenses and then looked at Canon's ultra-wide zoom lenses. If you didn't read that article, you really should because it explains the basic mechanics of how a lens works.
Today, we're going to look at the company's fixed focal length, wide-angle lenses. I have always been a fan of prime lenses. Prime lenses are defined as lenses with a fixed focal length versus zoom lenses which have a range of focal lengths. I like prime lenses because they are generally very well made and typically cost less than zoom lenses. I also like prime lenses because they typically have a larger maximum aperture than zooms and often weigh less than zoom lenses.
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Canon currently manufactures nine prime wide-angle lenses. Of the nine, one lens is a fisheye and three of the lenses are L-series.
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