http://brynjones.edublogs.org Hindsight is the Best Planning Tool Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:00:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Day 5 - Tuesday 17th July - 763 Km - Port Lincoln to Adelaide Whyalla, second largest city in SA, has an amazing collection of signage and fonts on shops and pubs. I couldn't work out if they were conserved for heritage reasons or had just never been repainted. A ... http://brynjones.edublogs.org/2007/07/27/whyalla-signwriting-capital-of-the-world/ Day 5 - Tuesday 17th July - 763 Km - Port Lincoln to Adelaide Every 2nd Tuesday, at 9am WA time, I have a Skype call with Atomic Learning in the US. On this occasion I was half way up the Eyre Peninsula at Arno Bay so I thought I'd ... http://brynjones.edublogs.org/2007/07/27/skype-test-in-arno-bay/ Day 4 - Saturday 16th July - 432 Km - Ceduna to Port Lincoln At Port Lincoln they invite you to: Then you can have it for dinner! The harbour is full of tuna in feeding pens. http://brynjones.edublogs.org/2007/07/27/make-friends-with-a-tuna/ Day 3 - Friday 15th July - 521 Km - Eucla to Ceduna Arrived at Ceduna and were welcomed by an amazing sunset. I was told they are quite common here and there are a number of amazing photos around the town to confirm it. http://brynjones.edublogs.org/2007/07/26/ceduna-sunset/ Day 3 - Friday 15th July - 521 Km - Eucla to Ceduna I wanted to put NextG to the test. Here I'm using it at Eucla with the antenna and it worked fine despite antarctic temperatures. It is quite an experience to plug into the Internet anywhere, even whilst driving along. Someone ... http://brynjones.edublogs.org/2007/07/26/testing-nextg/ Day 2 - Saturday 14th July - 1050 Km - Southern Cross to Eucla. Crack of dawn start to get as far as possible on day 2. Mostly you see this on the Nullarbor (but sometimes no trees). But there are also other things. A railway engine at Balladonia Roadhouse A big bucket taking up ... http://brynjones.edublogs.org/2007/07/26/funny-what-you-see-on-the-nularbor/ Day 1 - Friday 13th July - 422 Km We left after lunch and made it to Southern Cross the first night. Most of the road follows the Golden Pipeline Trail which I've been reading about recently. It follows C.Y O' Connor's legendary water pipeline from Perth to Kalgoorlie and much ... http://brynjones.edublogs.org/2007/07/26/fremantle-to-southern-cross/ At last I've got organised to post to the blog. We left home on 13th July (despite being Black Friday) and are now in Melbourne, 4250km later. I made the mistake of choosing a time based plan at NextG Bigpond and that doesn't allow for the browsing around and cutting ... http://brynjones.edublogs.org/2007/07/26/catching-up/ Chris Betcher blogged about a conversation we had at the Little Creatures Brewery some years ago where we discussed the common themes that emerge from research about the lack of ICT uptake by schools and teachers. Sadly little has changed. The main difference now is that most teachers use ICT in ... http://brynjones.edublogs.org/2007/06/11/8-10-or-11-things-that-make-a-difference/ This was recommended twice last week so I thought I'd take a look. Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. Compulsory viewing for your next staff meeting. particularly liked the bit about the ballet dancer towards the end. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/66 TED Talks ... http://brynjones.edublogs.org/2007/05/29/education-kills-creativity/