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Poeticise blog ….: thinking about poetry

Abandoned Picnic Places

On my walk this morning, along the bay near Safety Beach, I looked away from the sea for a moment, and there was a picnic table half-hidden in the ti-tree. A concrete picnic table, and the stump foundations of the benches that must once have been located along either long side. A forgotten little object, […]

On Philip Martin and criticism

I was talking to my Year 12 Literature class this morning about Heart of Darkness, its initial critical reception and the polarising re-evaluations since, by Achebe largely, and others as well. It’s a part of the course called Literary Perspectives, that I initially had lots of reservations about (can we just stick to the text) […]

Teaching and learning blog …: teaching and learning with technology

The Second Coming of Microsoft

If you’d told me ten years ago that I’d be excited about next year’s teaching with a bunch of Microsoft tools, I’d have told you were crazy. At that stage Microsoft was on the skids: bloated old-fashioned desktop programs and slow to the internet. The software suite they had made their name on (aka Office) […]

Ed-Tech in the age of Facebook

I’ve never had a Facebook account and I’m pleased about that. I’m certainly not anti-tech. I was an early advocate for the internet, started blogging pretty much as soon as it was possible, built web-sites, built digital resources, helped establish online communities and took up tools like OneNote, with gusto. In fact, the raison d’être […]