Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
I have just returned from the Annual Walker Cup Golf event which is in its 31st consecutive year. The event which is played over 72 holes has players coming from interstate: Perth and Brisbane.
This years singles winner, Alan Roberts, won by one shot. Alan played in the second last group ...
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
Last year I used my iphone whilst overseas to call and text home. Well you can imagine the bill (I had data roaming on for a little while). Once bitten we were determined not to have that again so this time we bought a phone in the US and a ...
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
We are at the end of our time at Harvard having had our presentation both acknowledged by the facility and celebrated by our American colleagues.It felt gooood!
Our thinking was then sharpened over the remainder of the course to focus on the next level of work. Our goal to build teacher ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Last Sunday we discovered the Sunday Festival at Harvard where they close the streets and have stalls selling a whole variety of goods (clothing, jewellery, food and lots of other interesting items). We discovered in one street the street chalk drawing competition. Each stall was sponsered by a local business ...
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Saturday, May 5th, 2012
Last night I (and my travelling "mate" and Assistant Principal Penny who is co-presenting at Harvard on Sunday) went to the CELTIC'S final (game 3) at the Boston Gardens. Fantastic!!
The Celtics won in OT by 6 points.
The whole night was just a great experience - from the pre game ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
This is just a small post on what I love and find frustrtaing using the ipad as a work tool overseas. Yesterday we visited a school in Cambridge (John Tobin) and I took some photos. The ipad was great (compact, user friendly).
I went back to the hotel and began ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Standing outside the main gate of the Forbidden City and trying to use Pano an i phone 4 app to show the size of the entrance. Its a great app which I recommend to others.
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
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I have attached some shots of the Forbidden City that I toured as part of the Leaders Course in Beijing. Besides the fascinating history of the City which is nearly 700 years old its sheer size is amazing. It covers 178 acres so in a few hours we were only able ...
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Certainly one of the more challenging speakers at the recent World Convention of Principals was Kishore Mahbubani. For those not familiar with Kishore or his work, and I was one of them, he is currently a Professor in Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and has published 3 significant books as ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
I have just returned from the 9th World Convention of the International Confederation of Principals in Singapore. It was truly an international convention with1,400 delegates from over 40 countries. It was also an opportunity to meet up with old friends and colleagues like Sita, who I first met whilst studying ...
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