Monthly Archives: September 2011

Asian perspectives across a curriculum are just as important as learning a language like Mandarin.

Front page of the Age newspaper today were two headings that caught my eye: “PM seizes reins on China links” and “Mandarin off schools’ menu”. The first article describes a government white paper due out early next year which seeks … Continue reading

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A view from the bell tower.

This week while I was inspecting restoration work on the bell tower (built in the 1880’s) I had the chance to play with Pano, an app on my iphone. Pano was easy to use. Like it. This picture shows about 2/3rds … Continue reading

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