Having a play on my iPod and guess what....I'm here! Hey, that's pretty sweet for me! Lol

Just one of those days!

Ever had 'just one of those days?'.  Must of...everyone has them!  You're just too tired to fight it anymore and you just 'go with the flow' and hope on the other side, 'it's all good!' In the end you're left with 'Aahhhhhhhhhh,oh well, it's all good'.  Hoping tomorrow is a better version of  'it's all good!'.  :)

Oh well, some Adele then!?!

Playing for change - Imagine

(again!  I love the concept behind these people!)

More Art!

Okay...I just couldn't resist!  This art medium is just stunning!  Ahhhhhhh!!! :)

Sand art by Ilana Yahav

Sand art by Ilana Yahav - Emotions

Hand art by Cutienibbler

Shadow Hands by Wolfdnc

Shadow Choreography - jayleo82

More Art!

Hello again.  Had a good weekend.  I won my job back again through an interview (our school is going through a merge with two other schools :(  ).  YAY...and weep, weep if you have ever been through one!

Anyway....some more cool art via YouTube!

by Marcus Winter

by Kseniya Simonova

Beautiful!!!  What do you think?  :)

Short-Stop Motion Clips

While I was looking for some YouTube clips for my Frog topic (Lester and Clyde), I came across some very interesting and clever short-stop motion clips.  I think these are very well done and cute!


First is Lost Things by Angela Kohler.

The next clip is called 'The Whiteboard' by Matteftw.

Books Come to Life - Moon Man

Playing for Change

Just felt a relaxing pick me up.  Love these videos.  You must check out their other YouTube vids.  I think the creators are 'clever'!  :)

ULearn

ULearn Conference 2011 link:
http://www.core-ed.org/ulearn/

I had a 'ball' at the recent ULearn Conference 2011.  The breakout sessions meant more to me and I was lucky enough to get most of what I asked for.  I enjoyed listening to the Keynote speakers (as mentioned in an earlier post) especially most of Dr Jack Bacon's session (he had met Gene Roddenberry!!!), actually I got lost a few times when he used some pretty big words!  LOL

 I enjoyed looking around the stalls and found myself at these stalls often (if not to get the freebies, to check out the resources available - ahhhhhh!).  I got to see a few familiar faces, speak to many of the stall sponsors, win a t-shirt by throwing a rugby ball into a hole, purchase a few goodies, see Suzi de Gouveia (Oh yes!!!), speak to Gerald Alford from ITC Publications (about a new teacher planner release)...and..my friend Jeanette had the opportunity to present an impromptu Pecha Kulcha presentation (and she only had 5 minutes to get her pictures and speaking together - good thing she's the ICT facilitator at our school!).  Boy did she ROCK!

The purchases I made were from Sitech and ITC Publications.  I bought a Talking Book and Computer Keyboard with lower case letters (colourful and big key pads) from Sitech.  I bought the Junior level Teacher Planner from ITC Publications.  ITC also have available the 'e-Companion' which is a digital Teacher Planner.  You can download a free-to-use 30 day trial sample.  You have at your finger-tips, activities, learning intentions, activities to promote higher order thinking (eg Judge and Jury, HOM) that you can digitally insert.  The links to these places are made available below.

Try these links:

*Essential Resources:
http://www.essentialresources.co.nz/

Suzi de Gouveia
http://www.essentialresources.co.nz/Author.aspx?Author=SUZ


*ITC Publications:  
ITC Publications home
http://www.itcpublications.com.au/

e-Companion
http://www.itcpublications.com.au/e-companion


*Sitech
http://www.sitech.co.nz/

Sitech Early Childhood Resources/Products Page
http://www.sitech.co.nz/products/c/280

A3 Talking Book
http://www.sitech.co.nz/product_details/c/280/p/614

Computer Keyboard
http://www.sitech.co.nz/product_details/c/280/p/627