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I have 2 established Japanese Painted ferns in a part-shade garden.....Ursula's Red & Burgundy Lace. One is huge, the other is only half its size this year. I don't see any reason why it isn't seeming to catch up....usually they are both about the same size. They are planted about 2-3 feet apart. What can I do to help the little one catch up (or what would be a reason for the difference in size?) They have been in the garden for at least 4 years now.
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I do hope some of you shrub experts can give me some advice.
Last fall I planted a Kaleidoscope abelia in my mixed foundation border. During the winter it appears to have suffered damage. The center branch is split so that half goes off in either direction, spoiling the shape of the bush. I'm not sure what caused the damage but now, I would like to rehabilitate the abelia. I've read they can be pruned and should respond with new growth but I'm concerned since this is right in the middle/top of the plant. Should I cut the damaged branch all the way back or just past the split? Or am I even on the right track with that? Can you advise me, please?
I would cut the damaged branch back pretty hard, either back to the main trunk or to a smaller diameter branch, if there is one. Don't leave a stub. It may slightly spoil the looks for this first year, but it should fill in over the summer.
If you still don't like the looks (and I have only seen 'Kaleidoscope' as a nursery pot, so I can't predict the eventual growth habit[s] - many abelias look better without pruning, as long as they have the room to grow), then you can take it to the ground in late winter/early spring - you can do that to most abelias and let them grow up again. I don't know if this one has the graceful, arching habit of other abelias or not, so can't say if it would look good after a while with pruning, or not.
Thanks, Dibbit. I'll take a close look as soon as I get home from work to see how far I need to take it back. Should I do this pruning now or at a later time? I'm not so much concerned about flowering as possibly stimulating new growth generally. Am I correct in assuming that pruning back will have that effect?
I'm a bit backward where pruning is concerned because in almost all cases I much prefer to let shrubbery assume its own shape. When an occasion arises that demands a cut here and there for the sake of the plant, I usually find myself at a loss.
I have no experience with the mature version of this variety but from what I've managed to research it should have a loosely mounded shape - perfect for the spot in my bed. It should grow to about 5-6 tall and wide. As beautiful as the foliage is already, that should be spectacular!
Thanks again for your advice!
Abelia is notorious to produce straight vertical stems if pruned into 2-3 years old wood, so if you still want to keep loose mounded arching shape of the plant you have to prune your broken branch all way down to the stab.
In a future just slightly prune tips of the branches when needed and it will keep its natural shape.
That's good to know, ego45. I'll take your advice and Dibbit's to cut all the way back. That's going to leave a bald spot but I hope that will fill in eventually.
It's not exactly in my budget, but I'm thinking about moving this "handicapped" abelia to a less prominent place and replacing it with a new one. There will be two in this foundation border and it might be best to get them started out "equal". Given the beauty of the foliage, I'm sure I can find another spot where a bit of irregularity in the shape of this one would not be a problem.


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So I drew this Shaco here. And there's a little story behind this picture. My old friend requested a picture from me, far before I started playing League. He linked me to this weird picture of a clown. I tried drawing it and couldn't. I gave up and told him I wasn't good enough to draw it yet. This was back when I refused to play League because I had a totally wrong idea of it. He told me that I could draw it if I played but I refused.
So recently I had the inspiration to try drawing it again. Shortly after my failure of drawing the last Shaco I started playing League and now here I am drawing him and successfully pulling it off.
If there's anything I like more than playing League, It's drawing the champions. Riot never lets me down with a release of a champion. They're very fun to draw!
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My previous post described the events leading up to the "end of the road" for our VW Westfalia. Those events also unknowingly sowed the seeds of another ending for, that of using traditional DSLR cameras...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014
End of the Road, Part II
It's been a little over a year since my last blog post, which was titled "End of the Road". It was published shortly after I returned from a less than successful photo trip to the Yukon, which metaphorically-speaking did mark the end of a few roads for me.
Let's begin with my mode of transportation for this trip, our 1988 Volkswagen Westfalia camper van. Our "Westy" had been our reliable and versatile travelling companion for many adventures throughout western Canada, including several trips to the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Unfortunately, it chose this particular trip to have its first-ever mechanical breakdown after nearly 300,000 km of driving.
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Driving north on the Robert Campbell Highway, a rock managed to bounce up and get caught in the Westy's alternator belt, shredding the belt and leaving me broken down about 15 kilometers from the small community of Ross River.
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I had to hitchhike to Ross River, leaving about $30,000 worth of photo gear behind in the van. This was particularly stressful even though it was insured; things didn't get any better when I made it to Ross River and discovered there was no tow truck service available. I was fortunate to even get a room at the town's only motel, which had already closed for the day.
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Fortunately, some local residents were willing to help me retrieve my gear from the van, and the following day I was able to use what was left of the damaged alternator belt to limp the van into Ross RIver. Arrangements were made with the owner of the motel, who was in Whitehorse for the weekend, to pick up a new belt, which arrived on Sunday night, and I was able to head back on the road after being stranded in Ross River for three days.
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Despite aving blown three days of my limited schedule, and a significant amount of my budget for the trip, I decided to keep heading north with the intention of travelling part way up the Dempster Highway to salvage something from the trip.
Unfortunately, by the time I got to Dawson City the weather had turned ugly, and with a less than optimistic forecast for the rest of the week, I pointed the Westy south and headed for home.
Unfortunately, by the time I got to Dawson City the weather had turned ugly, and with a less than optimistic forecast for the rest of the week, I pointed the Westy south and headed for home.
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That turned out to be the last trip for our Westy. After much contemplation, we decided the rather small and utilitarian camper van no longer suited our lifestyle, and we reluctantly put it up for sale.
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End of the Road...
The furthest point I reached in my Yukon trip was the viewpoint at the top of the Midnight Dome, overlooking Whitehorse...
Unfortunately, the weather wasn't being very cooperative, so I left with nothing but a few snapshots.
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text: Faculty Research Publications (Libraries) http://hdl.handle.net/1957/4 Published articles and preprints written by faculty and staff of the Oregon State University Libraries. 2015-04-02T06:35:23Z Topic Level Disambiguation for Weak Queries http://hdl.handle.net/1957/55225 Topic Level Disambiguation for Weak Queries Zhang, Hui; Yang, Kiduk; Jacob, Elin Despite limited success, today's information retrieval (IR) systems are not intelligent and reliable. IR systems return poor search results when users formulate their information needs into incomplete or ambiguous queries (i.e., weak queries). Therefore, one of the main challenges in modern IR research is to provide consistent results across all queries by improving the performance on weak queries. However, existing IR approaches such as query expansion are not overly effective because they make little effort to analyze and exploit the meanings of the queries. Furthermore, word sense disambiguation approaches, which rely on textual context, are ineffective against weak queries that are typically short. Motivated by the demand for a robust IR system that can consistently provide highly accurate results, the proposed study implemented a novel topic detection that leverage both language model and structural knowledge of Wikipedia and systematically evaluated the effect of query disambiguation and topic-based retrieval approaches on TREC collections. The results confirm the effectiveness of proposed topic detection and topic-based retrieval approaches but also demonstrate that query disambiguation does not improve IR as expected. This is the publisher's final PDF. The published article is copyrighted by the Author(s) and published by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information. It can be found at: http://www.jistap.org/journal.do?method=currentIssue&journalSeq=J000043&menuId=&introMenuId=0201 2013-09-01T00:00:00Z Fusion Approach to Finding Opinions in Blogosphere http://hdl.handle.net/1957/55228 Fusion Approach to Finding Opinions in Blogosphere Yang, Kiduk; Yu, Ning; Valerio, Alejandro; Zhang, Hui; Ke, Weimao In this paper, we describe a fusion approach to finding opinion about a given target in blog postings. We tackled the opinion blog retrieval task by breaking it down to two sequential subtasks: on- topic retrieval followed by opinion classification. Our opinion retrieval approach was to first apply traditional IR methods to retrieve on-topic blogs, and then boost the ranks of opinionated blogs using combined opinion scores generated by four opinion assessment methods. Our opinion module consists of Opinion Term Module, which identify opinions based on the frequency of opinion terms (i.e., terms that only occur frequently in opinion blogs), Rare Term Module, which uses uncommon/rare terms (e.g., "sooo good") for opinion classification, IU Module, which uses IU (I and you) collocations, and Adjective-Verb Module, which uses computational linguistics' distribution similarity approach to learn the subjective language from training data. This paper was presented by the author(s) at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media on March 27, 2007, in Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.; This paper has also been published as: Yang, K., Yu, N., Valerio, A., Zhang, H., & Ke, W. (2007). Fusion approach to finding opinionated blogs. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 44(1), 1–14. doi: 10.1002/meet.1450440254 2007-06-01T00:00:00Z Faceted search for heterogeneous digital collections http://hdl.handle.net/1957/55226 Faceted search for heterogeneous digital collections Zhang, Hui; Dunn, Jon; Cowan, Will; Durbin, Mike; Wheeler, Brian The idea of faceted search has received growing attentions in the digital library field for its potential of improving user satisfaction by combing the query and browse strategies interactively. Furthermore, with the trend of using digital repositories as the central infrastructure for curation and preservation, there is a demand for a single search interface providing public access to all the diversified content stored in the repositories. In this demo, we present Digital Collections Search, a system that is designed to assist users who are unfamiliar with the subject of their information needs locating relevant items as well exploring related but unknown collections in the repository. This is an author's peer-reviewed, [ACM Word template] final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by the author/owner(s) and published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). It can be found at: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2232817; This article was first presented as a conference paper in June 2012 at the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 2012-06-01T00:00:00Z


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Weekly Reflection: Being someone's worst teacher
A few weeks ago the New Zealand government launched an online campaign called inspiredbyu. The idea is that New Zealanders would write a virtual postcard to teachers that helped shaped them into the person they are today.
On the surface the initiative seems great. Genuine words of thanks are the most powerful bonus any teacher can receive. Yet I find myself wondering if in celebrating the best means we don't take time to learn from our failures.
I've been critical of the superhero narrative creeping into our national conversation of education that there's a special breed of teachers out there that will be all things to all kids all the time.
However the reality is that no one teacher is a perfect fit for every student.
Education is such a personalised process. Each learner brings with them their own personality and so do our teachers. The things that make a teacher great in the eyes of one student are often part of their personality.
My propensity towards messy projects, quirkiness and obsession with technology is so much of who I am as a person that it extends right down to my choice of footwear.
However just like shoes what might make someone an awesome teacher for one student might be down right awful for another.
At the end of last year I received some lovely cards and some words of thanks from both students and parents. I also received a phone call from one parent that will stick with me for a very long time.
A child in my class had hated being in my class so much that they were refusing to come to school.
While feeling the sting of criticism can be tough, mostly I felt bad for the kid that they felt so poor in my class for the entire year. The words still hang in the air.
I was this child's worst teacher.
There wasn't any malicious intent from either me or the child – just a break down in communication. I knew something was up but I wasn't able to put together the missing pieces. In that respect I was a failure.
Did I learn from the experience?
Have I changed my classroom management as a result of the experience?
While classroom success should be celebrated failure isn't something that should be stuffed away. In fact the first thing I did after the phone call was let my principal at the time know about the situation. It wasn't the easiest thing to do but it was the right one.
At some point in their career every teacher is going to have a moment when they are someone's worst teacher.
Having this title doesn't make a teacher bad it's what we do with it afterwards that counts.
At a time when teaching in the media is increasingly being polarised between the incompetent and brilliant it's worth reminding that all teachers have bad days and also kids in their classes that they weren't able to develop that learning relationship.
Most days I'm good for most kids, great for some and working really hard to make adequate with a few.
10 tips for First Year Teachers
1. Don't talk over the kids
If there is one piece of advice I could give you, it is this. Never talk over the kids. You might have to wait a long time for their attention and on occasion you might have to stop and wait. Be patient. Allowing the kids to talk over you is telling your students that you do not expect them to listen to you.
2. Your students' mistakes are not a reflection on you as a teacher
It can be easy to internalise every bad action your students make as a reflection on your teaching. Especially if you have another adult tut-tutting your students misdemeanours. While modelling and guiding behaviour is important, it is not your job to prevent every bad decision from happening. It is far important to make sure the kids put things right after they muck up.
3. Never be afraid to admit your mistakes.
Don't be afraid to let your students know that you are a human being too. You will make mistakes. If the stuff up effects someone – a student, a colleague or parent -acknowledge the mistake and move on wiser. Accept any apologies that come your way with with grace and kindness.
4. Learn from your colleagues
Make the most of your PRT time, you'll miss it when it is gone. Visit other classrooms. Ask lots of questions. It can be easy to get into a habit of eating your lunch in your classroom and go through a day without talking to another adult. Stop into the staffroom from time to time. So much incidental PD happens when you are unloading the dishwasher.
5. Have a life.
Teaching can consume your every waking moment. Start new hobbies and interests outside of school. Maintain friendships with non-teachers. Keep learning. It's like they teach us on airplanes. Adults need to put their own oxygen masks on before helping any kids travelling with them. A tired and burned out teacher is not effective in the classroom. Teaching is a marathon, not a sprint.
6. Be bold
Don't be afraid to do something different but don't expect everyone – other teachers, parents, the kids – to be enthusiastic about your zany ideas. Remember road blocks are not put in place to stop you from doing new things. They are there to stop bad ideas from being implemented. Back yourself you know more than you think. Find mentors who will guide you into making your classroom vision a reality. Be prepared to have your ideas fail and move on the wiser.
7. Keep in contact with the parents
Take time to contact parents about the good stuff their child does. Flick an email to parent with a photo of their child in class or telling them a time when their child went above and beyond. If you have concerns, pick up the phone and call. Texting can be a fantastic way to reach some of those hard to reach parents.
8. Blog
I've written at length about the importance of edublogging. Blogging has helped forge friendships and some incredible learning opportunities for both myself and my students. Use the expertise of the global network of teachers to make your classroom more awesome.
9. Look after your support staff
Support staff are the unsung heroes in our schools. Make sure you always acknowledge the work that they do. Buy some bevvies for your caretaker. Take the time to say thank you to the teacher aides and librarians. Bring in something nice for the office staff.
10. Focus on what really counts
When all is said and done your students aren't going to remember how to draw a factor tree or that they achieved their national standards. They will remember how they felt being in your class. Build a classroom culture that supports mistake-making and kindness. Schools can be highly political workplaces at time. Don't waste your time and energy on things that don't matter. Always remember you are paid to be brilliant in the classroom.
Singapore bound – so long NZ and thanks for all the fish
Next year sees a change for me.
I'm off to teach at an international school in Singapore.
My current school has been really, really, really good to me. I've been afforded some incredible professional development opportunities and had a lot of autonomy to do some cool things with my class.
Nevertheless I found myself feeling restless.
Put simply I can hear planes.
Derp Stephanie, you say, your home and school are below a flight path of course you can hear planes.
As a wanderer I know it's time to leave a place when I can hear planes. It's a sign that life has become too familiar and too easy. The planes have been loud this year and despite a few trips, my wanderlust has returned with a vengeance and I found myself desperate to move overseas again.
I'm looking forward to joining a PYP school and teaching a different year group.
Of course change comes with a cost.
I will miss my awesome students and their families.
My fantabulous co-workers and also the amazing teachers I've had the pleasure of learning with from up and down the country these last 3 years. Despite the bad press this week I can name hundreds of amazing teachers out there doing amazing things in their classrooms every day. What's even more fantastic is how generous you all are with your knowledge.
One of the delights of being online is that distance is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Though if I do make it to any New Zealand-based educamps in the next few years I am totally calling dibs on the chocolate fish!
Weekly Reflection – reporting doesn't have to suck
My twitter feed has been quiet of late and there is one simple reason for it.
At best most teachers tolerate writing reports as a bureaucratic necessity and at worst they see it at a medieval torture device due to rigid formatting requirements and the lack of sleep that go hand in hand with report writing season.
If I spend an hour analysing data, thinking, writing, drafting and proofreading for each child adds up to 30 hours on top of normal teaching duties as well as the multitude of other tasks bureaucratic that pop up at the end of the school year. If you happen to teach students who are at an age where they transitioning to another part of the education system, there will be reports to fill out to add to the paperwork.
Aside from the legally mandated statements about a child's progress against National Standards, my school has been experimenting with reporting to parents. This experimentation has left us with a lot of wriggle room to try out Instead of ticking boxes my syndicate has put a greater emphasis on qualitative feedback. Sure this has has been more time consuming for me as a teacher however the process has been less painful because I have more ownership in the product.
Alongside my comments the students have written their own comments about the year on a google form, selected a picture from the class flickr account and next week will film the final part of their video time capsules which will be included as a QR code on the paper report. Sure it's a mishmash of old and new technology and the report is not standardised to the whole school.
We don't all learn the same and we don't teach the same.
So why should school reports the same?
I'm sure that there are a lot of educators that view reports as a relic of bygone era where communication between parents and teachers was largely limited to official bits of paper going home at mandated times of the years. These days I will phone, email and text parents about concerns and also victories in class.
Nevertheless the end of the year marks a milestone. Reporting for me is part of the process of taking leave of the time I spent with my students. I found it rewarding thinking about how my students have grown in this last year. This is particularly the case for my Year 8s who I have taught for two years.
Like many things in life reporting is what you make of it.
Our jobs as educators is try to find the awesomeness in every kid and nurture it.
Reports are time to see how we've both done in progressing towards that goal.
Weekly Reflection: Minecraft, MLEs and Quadblogging! Oh my!
I've become a huge quadblogging fan.
For those not in the know quadblogging is when a group of four classes take turns to read and comment on individual blogs. The quad can be international or national.
After a few false starts, the quad I've been involved in this year has been nothing short of awesome. I feel bad that the class hasn't been able to give as much attention as I would like owing to production practices, swimming and learning conferences playing havoc with the classroom schedule.
Nevertheless my other quadblogging buddies have been fantastic.
A few weeks ago a challenge went out. The students of one of the quads wanted to map our classroom in minecraft.
To say my students are obsessed with minecraft would be an understatement. There's something about building virtual worlds which is almost as addictive as refined sugar to my learners.
One of my students took over the project and spent the next few weeks measuring up a storm. I wasn't allowed to touch my whiteboard as measurements went up and were then put into written form. The initial write up conveyed an insane amount of detail and involved discussions about the Pythagorus theorem.
The excitement of seeing the build grew but there was one small problem – the set up of my classroom is very different to a typical classroom. My students don't really notice the difference as that's our normal. We are only reminded that our classroom isn't typical when the odd student from outside of our syndicate walks in and goes 'woah it looks different in here.' As a result our quadblogging buddies were having trouble getting their heads around our classroom layout.
The initial result was wrong.
Very wrong.
And from that wrong I ventured into the promised land as far literacy goes: boys talking to each other about their writing. Not just the surface 'I think you did a good job' or 'how do you spell this word' but those in-depth conversations, the 'if you write this, the reader might think that' talks which really develop kids as writers.
My students had a go at giving the blogging buddies feedback. Helping their peers put things right turned out to be a fantastic way for the kids to really stretch their explaining skills. As I sat working with a child on their reading, I found myself distracted wanting to the capture the learning conversation happening just a few meters a way.
One of my students suggested a fix was for our blogging buddies to make an initial build and then our class could rebuild. While I was impressed by the lateral thinking a quick reminder about the 'task with the task' writing and measuring had the kids back thinking.
As always there was extra learning for me.
How could we have explained our set up a bit better?
When did we need to get our rulers and when was time to make sure our explanations used words to helped create an accurate picture in the readers mind?
I've been hugely impressed how this connection has lead to so much unintended and unscripted learning. It's pushed me to think more about how we can redefine our learning tasks.
Weekly Reflection: Shall we dance?
Just under 4 weeks until production and the scene I'm in charge of is… 1950s rock and roll dancing.
I'm one of those clumsy sorts who is forever falling over and dropping things. For that reason my dancing strictly to the gym to limit the chances of doing damage to myself and others.
Yet here I am in charge of scene of teaching 20+ kids how to dance.
A nightmare?
I think so.
Fortunately one of the kids in the group happens to enjoy rock and roll dancing as a hobby. I am also lucky that one of the teachers at school is an accomplished rock and roll dancer so between the dancer and the other students I've managed to pick up enough steps to choreograph 90 seconds worth of dance.
When you can't dance 90 seconds seems like an eternity when faced with helping 20+ kids on stage. While I have been firmly outside my comfort zone some kids have been in their element. One of the joys of production is seeing the kids who might not be sporty, good at maths or literacy shine. One of my students remarked 'they were born for this.'
Sir Ken Robinson often talks about how every education system on the system has the same hierarchy of subjects: numeracy and literacy at the top of the pecking order, followed by science and humanities with art and in particular dance firmly at the bottom of the pecking order. The current obsession with childhood obesity has given PE/fitness a bit of a boost however dance is often forgotten about.
In fact as children migrate through school, dance is something that we tick off once every year or so through production barely even touching even one of the four arts strands in the New Zealand curriculum: Understanding the Arts in Context, Developing Practical Knowledge in the Arts, Developing Ideas in the Arts, and Communicating and Interpreting in the Arts.
A few moths ago I stumbled upon a Ted Talk premised on the idea of replacing powerpoint with dance. The idea behind the talk was that not only can dance help explain scientific concepts it can actually help scientists with their work.
Yet I can't help wonder why we can't value dance for its own sake. Our preschoolers and junior primary children know that it's lots of fun to dance but gradually that joy it is educated out of them. We tell them to sit down and stop moving and get on with the serious business of learning.
A few years ago I remember walking down Nanjing Road in Shanghai and stopped to see a huge open air class of ballroom dancers out in the morning. I couldn't help but wonder would New Zealand be a more happy and healthy if there was dancing in the streets?
Actually there's not an app for that: when technology gets in the way
As iPads and tablets are gaining popularity in schools, I often hear questions from teachers like 'I'm getting some iPads for my Year 3/4 class what apps do you recommend?' That question is often loaded with the expectation that somewhere out there is an app which will drag an existing classroom programme into the 21st century with just a few downloads from the app store.
Anyone know of a good reading app?
Yes I know of an outstanding reading app, it's called a book. There are thousands of them at your local library. But surely we've all worked out that plonking students in a library and leaving them to it will not on its own ensure kids learn to read?
Which is why I feel so uneasy about app farming.
There are plenty of apps out there that seem educational and undoubtedly find their way onto classroom iPads without much thought. However once you take the bells and whistles away many apps don't do much to enhance student engagement. Lots of skill and drill but is that what really engages learning? If the app keeps the kids quiet while you get on with group work, then it must be good right?
What happens when the kids tire of the gimmick?
That's an expensive piece of hardware on the table.
For me it always comes back to purpose.
What is it your kids need to learn?
It's such a simple question that gets lost in the quest to get technology into classrooms or the latest and greatest app on your device. In fact without knowing your kids or your classroom it's probably impossible for me to recommend effective apps for your students.
Do your kids to show in words and writing a maths strategy? Explain everything is pretty cool.
Collaborate with others? Skype, blogger, twitter, gmail.
Create a rap to explain key ideas from a novel. Garageband is awesome.
Show fermentation at work. iTimelapse is fabulous.
I often wish there was label on each new classroom iPad warning the teacher in charge of the device that just like the book or a pencil, there are millions of ways that the tablet could be used in your classroom and it's your job to figure out how to make it work best for your learners.
If you don't know what the specific app does and why you need it what is the point in having it in your classroom?
Lets take the focus off the technology and bring it back onto the learning. Figure out what your classroom needs are then start looking for tools to do the job.
Weekly Reflection: Creating classroom calm – meditation in classroom
During the summer holidays I had the pleasure of visiting the amazing learning space of @sherratsam and his colleague Chad.
If you ever get the chance to visit either of these educators, please do. However for those whose PD budget doesn't quite stretch to a visit to international classroom visits, you can visit their blog Time Space education.
For me this day gave me a chance to see theories and hunches about student learning in action. Their classrooms were calm, purposeful and creative hives of learning.
One idea that really intrigued me was the use of yoga and meditation in class.
I'm a regular at my body balance class at my local gym and enjoy the calm and contented feeling I have at the end of class.
Yet as an adult I often struggle with the meditation session at the end of class. Sometimes I am able to relax entirely but I often have trouble clearing my mind. There's just too much buzzing around in my head.
If I was having trouble how would my highly active class respond to meditation?
Was it going to end in giggles, eyeball rolling and pre-teen goofiness?
To be honest I was highly sceptical that meditation would easily translate from the worldly and sophisticated kids in an international school to a public classroom in suburban Wellington.
But I have been proved wrong.
For the most part my class has responded really well to purposeful downtime and have been requesting it before I even get a chance to unlock the door from lunch.
Our curtains are drawn and I put on some relaxing music. At the moment the students are learning to focus on their breathing and posture.
What was really surprising for me was that the children whose home lives are complex and sometimes chaotic have responded so positively to this idea of purposeful downtime. On further reflection, this makes a lot of sense for some kids school represents a safe, calm and caring space.
For this reason alone I will persevere with meditation once the novelty wears off.
As teachers we expect concentration in our classrooms but assume kids have the tools to focus.
We want our classrooms to be calm but school schedules sometimes run at break-neck speed.
We want our kids to be mindful of the effect of their actions on others. Yet time out for reflection often comes after the negative behaviour occurs.
What if in sacrificing 5-10 minutes of class time to calming students bodies and minds we gain more engagement?
Is that 10 minutes really a waste of time?
Weekly Reflection: A new principal
I never sleep well the night before the start of a new term. There's lots ticking over in my mind. how will the new classroom set up go (answer, a few remarks about more space and then business as usual) suddenly remembering a job on your to do list, a wake up jolt from an earthquake.
And this term a new principal.
Out of all the jobs in a school, the hardest definitely has to be the principal. Classroom teachers have the LOLz that go with spending time with the kids and not having to worry about setting budgets, buildings and managing the toughest group of learners in the school, teachers.
I joked on twitter that getting a new professional leader for a teacher feels very much like a student getting a new teacher. Students don't get a choice of who their teacher will be and that new person in the swivel chair is now in charge of professional learning.
Which leads to an important question.
Who is this person who suddenly has the power to make your working day very different?
In this age of google you can quickly find out about a person from their digital footprint and New Zealand is so small that there's almost always a mutual acquaintance.
A new principal brings change and with change comes uncertainty.
There's a chance that this new person coming in is going to give up your patch of school culture, change your practice, or challenge a deeply held belief.
That in and of itself isn't a bad thing.
As I often tell my students if we were all the same, the world would be a very boring place.
A fresh pair of eyes can sometimes do the world of good. Staying the same, doing things the same is ultimately leaving your students behind.
So this term I shall let myself be open to change and also remember being the new kid really sucked for the first few months.
Weekly Reflection: Creating space
For someone who loathes interior design with the fire of 1,000 suns I spend way too much time thinking about classroom layout. After my initial move away from student desks, I had another classroom re-configuration at the start of the year when I was the lucky recipient of new classroom furniture.
Yet here I am back in the holidays surreptitiously stashing desks around the school. My initial classroom layout had for the most part worked well. The kids made great use of the space and the classroom could be configured and reconfigured based on our needs. Yet there were some niggles.
Some furniture wasn't being used at all by the students, there were areas where the kids were bunching up and others they weren't using at all. A further catalyst for change was the school library re-opening and taking with it an entire shelf load of resources. So I took this midyear break as an opportunity to do yet another classroom redesign and most importantly de-clutter the classroom.
I amazed at how much clutter I have been able to amass in my 18 months in this classroom. I didn't even think I had packrat tendencies (when you move every 18 months or so you don't tend to hang on to junk) but nevertheless old notices, a few resources and whole lot of empty boxes were still in my class. It must be a teacher thing as my mother (who is a teacher) has boxes and boxes of resources that she has stored away in a shipping container (not all of it is teaching resources).
How much do we hold onto in schools just in case it might be useful?
Does it serve a purpose?
Does it make your classroom environment flow better or does it add obstacles and create visual noise?
At the beginning of the year I was very fortunate to spend the day with @sherrattsam at NIST in Bangkok. His blog is a must read but this post on time and space. So I made it my goal over the holiday to create more space.
I've pushed most of the tables in my class against walls to create as much floor space as possible. Floor space creates a physical flow through the room. There's no reason that the kids can't move the tables (and I'm expecting they will) however by placing furniture on the perimeter of the room there tends to be more flexibility in space.
I've deliberately moved the teaching station to the back of the room away from the board. Stephen Heppell (one of my learning space gurus) talks about creating multiple points of interest around the room. By having a teaching station right by the board I was still owning the front of the room. I've also added in a coffee table and sofa to make the area more interesting. Hopefully this will spread out the points of interest more in the room and also give kids a positive experience in groups.
Music and smell are important and again I've borrowed from Time/Space.There's an electric aromatherapy burner in the background and the dock where I put my iPhone for some relaxing music (much to the chagrin of my 1Direction fans). The aromatherapy has had mixed reviews by the students. Some love it, others roll their eyeballs but the idea of creating a calm environment appeals. The science is very much out on the efficacy of aromatherapy and I've been mindful to use scents that won't upset the asthmatics. However even if the claims about the efficacy of essential oils is mixed it can take the edge of the odour of class full of adolescents post PE. The stools enable the students to use the sink as a work area if they wish.
Daily 5 board. I totally stole this idea from @heymilly. My classroom has this wonderfully velcro type material along one wall which when you add some some velcro to the backs of laminated bits of card make for an interactive display. The kids names are laminated on the right with different colours. The students park their name next to the choice with each colour representing a different session.The rest of my walls are pretty much bare for good reason.
The students aren't here yet.
Each new term brings a chance for new beginnings and new adventures.
By creating more physical space I hope to create a learning environment that has purpose. Nothing gets added to our environment unless it adds to the room.
My mantra during this busy term will be to go slow.
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Luke Donald: 'Plod' and panache a recipe for success at the home of golf
Straight hitting and more complicated mental skills may help Britain's fast-emerging talent to become the Open's first domestic winner since 1999 at St Andrews this week
Monday 11 July 2005
Yesterday, William Hill had him at 33-1 to lift the claret jug in the shadow of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club next Sunday, with Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood at 40-1. Justin Rose, deemed not long ago to be the likeliest major winner of the thrusting young Brit Pack that also includes Paul Casey and Nick Dougherty, has not even qualified. Donald, with his older brother, Christian, carrying his bag, has forged ahead of his contemporaries. The question is: can he also forge ahead of Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh? Does he have the game to become the first home-grown winner of the Open since Paul Lawrie's improbable win up the coast at Carnoustie in 1999?
Donald, currently rated the 14th best golfer in the world, certainly thinks so. "I finished third in the Dunhill Links at St Andrews last year, and I believe I've got as good a chance there as at any of the other Open venues, if not better. I feel comfortable around the place. I've played it quite a few times now and the course has really grown on me. I didn't care for it at first, but it plays so differently in different types of conditions, which is always a challenge. Technically, yes, you might change this or that on some of the holes. And it's frustrating when you get bad bounces. But you'll also get good ones. If you accept that then you will enjoy playing there."
Moreover, Donald has now shown that he has both the game and the temperament to make an impact in a major, playing the last eight holes in six under par to finish third - despite a second-round 77 - in this year's US Masters. "But it wasn't as if I ever had much chance of winning," he says. "I was still seven back of Tiger and [Chris] DiMarco. So I don't have experience of coming down the stretch in a major in strong contention. But I'm sure I would cope well with the pressure. I think pressure can be a good thing."
Peter McEvoy, who captained two Walker Cup teams in which Donald shone luminously, believes firmly that his protégé will be the next Brit to win a major. And Donald accepts the burden of McEvoy's expectation with a shy smile. "Peter's always been very kind to me," he says. "He's always said I would be very successful, and I do feel confident that I'm going to win majors. I believe I have the right mentality."
But there is the right mentality to win a major and the right mentality to win an Open at St Andrews. The last four men to triumph at the Home of Golf, Tiger Woods, John Daly, Nick Faldo and Seve Ballesteros, while wildly different personalities, were nothing if not implacable believers in their own talent. Donald, I fancy, is the same. And he has listened carefully to the only man alive to have won two Opens at St Andrews.
"I have gotten to know Jack [Nicklaus] a little, or at least gotten to the point where I can call him Jack rather than Mr Nicklaus. I'm a member of the Bears' Club, his signature course in Florida, and I see him there in the winter sometimes, as well on RBS days [golf days organised by the Royal Bank of Scotland, which sponsors both Donald and Nicklaus].
"I've watched the videos and heard his stories, about the majors he won, and the ones he didn't win. Mostly the majors he didn't win were won by other guys, in the sense that Jack didn't lose them. There was only one major that he thought he lost, after being in a position to win. He usually finished the job."
Of course, Nicklaus - to whom the Open Championship crowds will make a doubtless emotional farewell later this week (or, dare we imagine, next Sunday) - is unique in having won all four majors at least three times.
Donald, for all his ambition, knows that the precise, steady game acknowledged on the US Tour with the nickname "Plod", suits some championships better than others. "The US Open is probably my best bet. I keep it straight off the tee, and I play good tactical golf. Actually, that's why I did well at Augusta. I thought it was a long-hitters' paradise, but you've really got to position shots into the greens, and that's one of my strengths."
He told me that before this year's US Open at Pinehurst, North Carolina. So I watched with interest as he plodded to the top of the Pinehurst leader board on the first day, and cursed myself for not having had a small wager on him with the aforesaid Mr Hill. I then congratulated myself on my foresight when, after an opening 69, his scores got higher and higher and he finished with a miserable 80.
At last week's J P McManus charity pro-am in Ireland, however, Donald was sticking to his belief that the US Open, historically the hardest for non-Americans to win, is still the major to which his game is best suited.
"I needed to be more patient. I was attacking too many pins and pushing too hard. But it was only my second US Open. In future I'll stick to my game plan."
And what will be his game plan at St Andrews, about as difference a golf course from Pinehurst No 2 as it is possible to imagine?
"To keep it out of the bunkers. If there's no wind, it will come down to putting. If the wind is up, you've got to be patient, got to control ball flight. And be aware of certain places you mustn't be; where, if you're going to miss those big undulating greens, you shouldn't miss left, or shouldn't miss right, or shouldn't be short, or shouldn't be long. There are some holes there that fit your eye, in the sense that you don't think you can miss [the fairway] from the tee. And there are some, like 13, that are more narrow. I've had trouble on that hole before."
It is a fair bet that Donald will not be dwelling on past difficulties when he tees up on the par-four 13th on Thursday. He is a devoted practitioner of visualisation, conjuring a picture in his mind of the fine shot he is about to hit. All golfers visualise shots to some extent. Long before visualisation became the buzzword, Nicklaus used to talk about "going to the movies". But some, like Donald, do it much more zealously than others.
That he is also an enthusiastic artist is a help, he believes. "I work from photos I've taken, and my stuff is pretty realistic, with a bit of abstraction. I think the way you visualise a piece of art, how it's going to turn out, is the same as a golf shot. I can't explain how I'm going to hit a shot 230 yards straight, or how I'm going to paint something, but I can picture it in my mind."
It is a mind which, for the past 18 months, he has put in the hands of a psychologist called Jim Fannin, who preaches what he calls the SCORE system.
"It's not just helpful in sport. Jim teaches it to business people, too, or to people who just want to live their lives better. SCORE stands for self-discipline, concentration, optimism, relaxation and enjoyment. If you find a balance between those things then things will work out. And it has really helped my attitude on the golf course. I used to get upset too easily if I ever hit a bad shot, but I've worked with Jim on having a bit more fun out there. Look at Vijay. Do you ever see him angry? Jim has a five-second rule, meaning that the most important time on the golf course are the first five seconds after every shot. That's when you're trying to sell yourself positives rather than negatives. You tell yourself, 'I hit it solid, I hit it great, I'm a great player'. And if it's a bad shot, you tell yourself just to forget it and move on."
The demonstrable success of these mental disciplines in golf repeatedly confound those cynics who would dismiss them as so much psychobabble. On the other hand, there is something ever so slightly disconcertingly American about them, as indeed there is about Donald himself. His Home Counties accent has acquired an unmistakable Yankee twang, there too in the words he uses, such as "gotten", and the way he pronounces things, loading all the emphasis on the first syllable of "Ryder Cup", for example.
On yet another hand, no British golf fan should take pleasure in his achievements while lamenting the fact that they have an increasingly American provenance. Put simply, if he still lived near his folks in High Wycombe, rather than on the shores of Lake Michigan, he would be a fraction of the player he is.
"I've learnt so much over there," Donald says. "The guys are out on the range such a lot, and spend an enormous amount of time on their games.
"Sure, they have less fun on the US tour [than in Europe]. You get Miguel [Angel Jimenez] going to bed after a glass of wine and a Johnnie Walker, and you don't see that from the US players. Also, in Europe there's usually a specific hotel everyone stays at. You congregate in the bar and then everyone goes out for dinner. In the US there might be 20 hotels, and a lot of the guys fly in on private planes. Over there I hang out with my brother and some other caddies, and also Sergio [Garcia]. But I enjoy it both ways. When I turned pro, I never realised how much work you have to put in on your game."
For Donald, as for so many other players just below the mountain top, the guy on the summit offers the template.
"I watched Tiger, spent time figuring out what he did to play so well. He's probably the fittest, strongest guy out there, and that made me want to work harder at my fitness. So during tournaments I work out two or three times a week and harder in my off weeks. But Tiger's got a lot more inconsistent than he was five years ago. He never used to make mistakes. Now he drives it crooked sometimes. He still gets out of trouble better than anyone. But it gives the other guys, like Ernie and Vijay, a chance."
Modesty prevents Donald from bracketing himself with the guys who might capitalise on Tiger's occasional vulnerability, but he is undoubtedly one of them.
"I still have some consistency issues," he admits. "My bad shot is a left-left shot, where I get very active with my legs on the downswing. I hold the club too shut, get the angle of my wrists wrong. But I've been working hard on cutting that out, and I'm looking forward to getting to St Andrews to practise some of those shots you can't practise anywhere else - those long, lagging putts and chip-and-runs over the slopes and mounds. Playing St Andrews is like an exam. You hope you've studied all the right things."
He is 33-1 to graduate with first-class honours.
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The Blackduck City Council received good news at its regular meeting Dec. 7 when they were told the city had been given an A+ from Standard and Poor's Ratings Services.
Shelly Eldridge from Ehlers, Inc. came before the council to update the council on its rating and also to present a plaque to the city for its rating.
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COLUMBIA CITY — Saturday's birthday party was four years in the making for Charlotte Eun Joo Smith, known as Charley, to her new adoptive family.
Shawn and Megan Smith, of Indianapolis, adopted Charley from Seoul, South Korea. The process took 14 months, but on May 26, Shawn and Megan welcomed their daughter into the family.
"When we were ready to start a family, we did not feel that our children needed to be biological to be ours. Our daughter was simply in South Korea," said Megan, who is originally from Columbia City.
COLUMBIA CITY — Indiana conservation officers are investigating the apparent drowning of a Fort Wayne man on a northwest Whitley County Lake.
Officers say 29-year-old James Beck was swimming Saturday around 1:45 p.m. toward a floating raft on Old Lake when his girlfriend spotted him struggling.
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Divers from five different agencies spent approximately seven hours searching for the body. He was recovered in about 20 feet of water.
COLUMBIA CITY — For the third year in a row, Whitley County Consolidated Schools will be offering teacher training for autistic students, implementing a strategy teachers can follow to better meet the needs of students.
After receiving a two year grant, WCCS has already been working with the Indiana Resource Center for Autism, who provides trainers and expert consultants to schools in the state, and this year WCCS' teachers will receive training again using the special education grant dollars.
COLUMBIA CITY — Teachers who will enter the Whitley County Consolidated Corporation as first-year teachers in August will receive mentoring through the district's New Teacher program.
Research shows educators are more likely to stay in education if they are supported or mentored during their first two years on the job, according to Whitley County Consolidated School (WCCS) Dr. Patricia O'Connor.
"It's a coaching model to really help our new teachers," said O'Connor.
COLUMBIA CITY – Russell Scriver now has "bookend" awards for achieving World Class Technician status – the highest level of professional development through the GM Service Technical College.
Scriver, a top service technician at City Chevrolet in Columbia City, was the sole auto mechanic to achieve the designation in Indiana during the second quarter of this year – and one of only six nationally.
Mastering his craft during high school and post-high school vocational-education studies, Scriver has plied his auto technician trade professionally for the past 15 years.
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Grand Champion and Reserve honors were bestowed on some of the best 4-H livestock in the state during the Grand Champion 4-H Drive earlier this week.
Jennifer Hinen, 18, of Columbia City, won Reserve Grand Champion Maine Anjou Steer at the Indiana State Fair Sunday.
"It was awesome being in the Grand Drive," said Hinen. "I've never done this well before. It was crazy."
COLUMBIA CITY — As farmers try to learn how to manage their way through the destruction caused by the summer's intense drought, Purdue Extension offices across the state are offering a hand by providing instructional advice through meetings.
COLUMBIA CITY — The 17th annual Mihsihkinaahkwa Pow Wow begins today and will run through Sunday at Morsches Park, Columbia City.
The event opens today at 5 p.m. with 32 vendors displaying and selling native crafts and products.
Three vendors will sell buffalo burgers, buffalo tacos, fry bread and more.
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