I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT HOW I CAN INTRODUCE STUDENTS TO STORYBOARDING, I AM GOING TO LOOK FOR AN OLD DISNEY FILM ABOUT CARTOONING AND STORYBOARDING TO SHOW THEM. THEN I WILL TEACH THEM HOW TO PLAY SOLITAIRE (PATIENCE) THEN I CAN TEACH THEM HOW TO STORYBOARD  'HOW TO PLAY SOLITAIRE' THEN GET THEM TO MAKE A VIDEO CLIP TEACHING OTHERS HOW TO PLAY SOLITAIRE.  I WILL THEN TEACH THEM ABOUT THE "HUNGRY SEASON" IN THE EAST TIMOR HIGHLANDS AND GET THEM TO PARTNER WITH A TWO SCHOOLS IN EAST TIMOR, ONE...
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I have been thinking about what constites meaningful learning. In western society we get to eat, and education is virtually free. What if a primary school teacher could help a class create an aid program to East Timor.  the students here could a) Enlist the aid of other schools b) collect old wheelbarrows and bicycles, and put them in a sea-container together with triicale(to feed chickens) purchased c) Create teaching videos which a school in East Timor could then use to raise chickens and t...
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I've had a lot of time to reflect. Digital Photography is easily 20% of the guts of personal website deisgn but it's more complex than film photography. The effect on the website can be quite dramatic.  To teach  a classroom of primary school students how to do digital photography is really the hard yakka of teaching personal web design !
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Last Week, Tuesday 28th February, whilst travelling to University on the 886 bus, I met a group of grade 6 school students who got on the bus at the corner of Forrest and Fitzgerald Streets.  They said that they were doing an "Amazing Race" activity by bus.  I explained that I was studying to be a primary school teacher, and was learning how to teach students how to create their own websites.  They were genuinely interested, and said they all wanted to create their own website.  this experien...
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