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It was a great privilege to attend the awards ceremony of the inaugural Singapore International School Film Fest last night. Singapore is certainly home to some talented, creative and artistic students – watch out Peter Jackson! Established to offer students the chance to showcase their creative ideas, talent and skills through film, the SISFF received [...]

Here are a list of apps I’m exploring in my workshop for Apple on Leveraging Learning with the iPod Touch. Doodle Kids Free Neat little app created by a 9 year old Singaporean boy. We’ve used it for fine motor skills, creativity etc. You can take screen shots of your creations and email them later. [...]

I’m sure you will already know about DropBox, but in case you have been a) hiding under a rock b) without internet access c) a parent of very small children or some other tragic circumstance has prevented you from discovering its brilliance, here are the details just in case: DropBox is a wonderful service which [...]

During the Asia ADE Institute 2010, Improv expert Rebecca Stockley introduced the “Failure Bow” as a way of recognising failures as learning opportunities. Basically, if you stuffed up, you held your hands up and everyone applauded your failures (rather than only celebrating your successes). I love the idea of this, but putting it into practice [...]

If you’re anything like me, you will recall the hype surrounding Google Wave, and you will remember with excitement, the day your invite finally arrived. I felt a bit like the cat that got the cream when I got mine, however my Wave potential was limited by the number of geeks people I could interact [...]

Our K2 Team have been at it again! They continue to actively look at new ways of integrating technology into their programme. Teaching about non-standard measurement is one of the K2 Maths expectations, and Louise & Andrea had the inspired idea of using the pedometer app StepTrakLite on the iPod Touch to make it more [...]

Every now and then I think it’s character building to step outside your comfort zone and try something you wouldn’t normally try. That’s what I kept telling myself – repeatedly – having made the decision to take on Stop-Motion Animation. Luckily for me, people who have far more patience than I were on hand to [...]

This tweet from @pluke17 got me thinking… He shared a link to this photo of his son Declan’s art work: I thought it was a pretty amazing drawing, and I was equally impressed that this 11-year-old had found something he wanted to learn and knew exactly where to find the information that would help him. [...]

People have a tendency to underestimate small children. A couple of years ago, I’d probably have been one of them. The combination of having my own kids and having an opportunity to teach younger and younger kids at school means I’m now a complete believer that there are no limits to their capabilities. Like many [...]

You know how sometimes the planets align and everything works effortlessly? When you somehow manage to snag the most productive, knowledgeable and talented bunch of people and complete tasks with absolutely no stress and plenty of fun? Well, that was my group for the ADE 2010 Challenge Based Learning task! I decided I wanted to [...]