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Surfing Japan: Map
Over the last couple of years, we’ve been finding moments of balance on family road trips. I’ve been trying to add each spot to a GoogleMap. Continue reading
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In Japan
This is a neat four-minute tour through our home, Japan, and well worth a watch. Maybe it will encourage you to come to Japan, too! Continue reading
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PaperPile: Managing Research & References in GoogleDocs
As anyone involved in studying (or a job that requires looking up a lot of research) knows, managing citations and remembering sources is a challenge. This is doubly difficult when you’re balancing it with full-time work and use the same… Continue reading
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The IMaGE of an International School
It’s crunch time for my MA International Education studies at the University of Bath, with a big literature review in progress and some data collection coming up, aiming to submit by the summer break. As much as I’ve loved the… Continue reading
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Aspiring to the Life we Live (or, Why we only post the good stuff)
I quite like social media. I like sharing photos on Flickr and moments on Instagram. I like sharing learning on my blogs and Twitter and family stuff on Facebook. I like the little connections (and reconnections) that come out of… Continue reading
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Defining Inquiry (again)
Some more recent posts: “Is this an Inquiry with an “I” or an enquiry with an ‘e’?” Wayfinding: Curriculum as a Compass? Content & Inquiry in a Google World? How NOT to be ignorant about the world: inquiry & the… Continue reading
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Taking on the Challenges of Interdisciplinary Learning (Updated 2018)
Reflections: April 2018 Since the original post in early 2016, we’ve made some progress, experienced some great successes and uncovered some further challenges. Enthusiasm is building behind Interdisciplinary Units (IDU’s), though there is still work to be done. I’ve updated… Continue reading
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Personal Project Cycle Diagram
Another cycle diagram, this time for the Personal Project, intended to bring it together with the Design Cycle and Service Learning Cycle and to centralize the role of the ATL’s. Continue reading
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Seven Reasons to be an #IBEN Site Visitor
A quick run-down of some of the benefits I’ve found in my first year or so in #IBEN as a school visitor. Continue reading
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Authenticity in assessment, (re-)defined and explained
For a while I’ve been banging the drum of the importance of definitions and I was reminded of its importance at the weekend as I took part in the #GAFESummit at CA and the whole-school PD session on Learning Principles.… Continue reading
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