At school last week Jeckle (my youngest Barbarian) started learning about cells. He’s really enjoying it and we’ve had some great discussions about cells, how they work, types of cells etc. As part of our discussions I told him that at some point he’d learn about the parts of cells and how they work. We…
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Dust storm
A week or to ago, Canberra was hit with a dust storm. It came in really quickly – at least the visible dust did. My eyes started reacting before I could see anything. It coated everything in a thick red layer – carried in with strong winds (up to 90km/hr or 56 miles/hr) from the…
Staying creative
Jacqui Murray (on her Wordreams blog here) recently posed the question “Am I creative?”. She was asking what you did to be creative outside of writing time. The responses were interesting, both in terms of who was creative in other ways, but also in terms of what people categorised as creative activities. My response really…
The wisdom of kids
A teacher who works with young kids shared some of the quotes she’s heard online. I thought there were a couple worth repeating: Happiness doesn’t come from trying to be happy. It comes from focusing on other people’s happiness (3rd grader) There are no barriers in our minds – we can think of anything (3rd…
www is our Babel fish
Last year I read an article by Joe Hildebrand on this very thing. It related to the rescue of the boy’s soccer team from the Thai cave but the premise applies more broadly than that. I still think about that article so I thought I’d share the concept with you. If you aren’t familiar with…