I really enjoyed learning Italian at school, it just seemed to make sense to me. I enjoyed the decoding and the challenge of getting the pronunciation right. When my wife and I moved to Brasil a few years ago, the years of learning Italian really helped me during the complete immersion. During this time I was also... Continue Reading →
The Icons race is one of the feature components of our Year 9 Urban History program. Students work in groups of three and navigate their way around Melbourne trying to locate key features and fixtures of the Melbourne CBD. Traditionally students received cards with clues and needed to decipher the exact location that they needed to... Continue Reading →
I've always marvelled at how prolific some bloggers are. I've got the ideas but always spend ages trying to refine the post. So inspired by @AdrianCamm's keynote from DLTV, I will not hide behind excuses anymore. I've set myself a mini challenge that is inspired by the amazing work that @ChrisBetcher does. He set himself... Continue Reading →
I heard a term "device agnostic" recently on the Techlandia podcast and it really resonated with me. When I look at my personal tech workflow, I prefer applications to work on a range of devices as I feel each device shapes and evolves my learning in different ways. So this post is an analysis of... Continue Reading →
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