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I am a bit of a visual thinker and doodled a diagram on the white board during Tony's perconference GameMaker session at the ACEC2006 conference. I did it again on the back of an absence slip for a cool teacher at my school that is teaching GameMaker to our migrant student English classes. I was really excited that in the final months of her ( Read more... )

I notice that the following ACEC National Conference websites have gone, leaving behind perhaps less than a fossilised bone or two.Each new website has gone as .info websites are only temporary. Perhaps 'deleted' during some housekeeping or recognised that the resources are mirrored elsewhere ( Read more... )

This evening I was asked to answer some survey questions for a research project into pedagogical patterns, I think they got my name from the talk that I gave at the ACEC2004 conference in Adelaide. It is an interesting idea borrowed from the design patterns used in the software industry, suggesting that educators can make a pattern or capture the ( Read more... )

We have a delightful husband and wife cleaning team that do most of the cleaning around here; Helen and George. This morning I came in early enough to work to beat them to open the school. I sit now in the very late evening, waiting for my lift, trawling through my e-mail and watching them through the glass window of the general office. They are ( Read more... )