17/365 In the blink of an eye!

BEFORE

Just as well I took a photo this morning of the construction progress so far of our new school hall. This afternoon a completely different picture unfolded, incredible progress in six hours!
AFTER

16/365 The Delhi Games have started...

We won gold for cycling!

15/365 Tuesday Back in the swing of it all...

Well, today the students are back into it. This is what my desk looks like already, a little staged with the Treasure Hunt app on the ipad open but still. A pile of books to mark already, an ipod waiting for someone to pick it up and a little bit of desk space waiting for something to fill it up!

14/365 Monday 4th October 2010

First day back at school, we had the ipad, ipod and laptops out today to help remember passwords. Funny how many forget a couple of numbers over the two week break. After a lovely day with my class I went on to a QSITE Gold Coast meeting but was the only person there until 4.25 pm when my good friend Jenni was able to get there! We had a great chat about our online project, please contact me if you would like to get involved in exchanging postcards with a class in Australia. The goal is to practise using persuasive text in a worthwhile activity.



A lovely long cup of lemon iced tea to soothe my throat after a hot first day back at school.

13/365 Last Sunday at end of the holiday

Tomorrow is the return to school, Term 4, 2010. Today, the last day we have to relax, my husband and I decided to move the furniture around so my computers have relocated from what was the study (and which has become somewhere to watch the telly) into our son's old room. He left home and joined the Navy so we only see him once in a blue moon (we still have the mattress for him to sleep on when he does visit.)

12/365 Saturday 2nd October 2010

A happy day spent wandering around the shops with my darling husband. We haven't had the time to do this for so long! We were looking for a seat to replace the bean bag our cat destroyed when it was accidentally locked into the study for a day! The damage could have been oh so much worse!!

11/365 Friday 1st October 2010

Sharing a global project that is starting as soon as we return to school tomorrow!


Friday was an exciting day, I am part of a small team in the QSITE Gold Coast chapter are re-establishing the branch, raising the profile of the organisation as a quality source of professional development in digital pedagogy. Friday was the day we offered our first holiday PD, labelled the guru session (see 24th September for the advertising flyer).

This photo is a montage of a number of photos I took through the day to allow those in my PLN unable to attend to share in what we were doing. If you would like to watch some of the UStream videos click HERE. Unfortunately mine and a couple of others did not save properly... maybe next time my words will go global!

To see more photos from the QSITE Gold Coast PD click HERE.