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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