about

warrickwynne.com

about

Warrick Wynne is a reader, writer and teacher based in Melbourne, Australia. The front page of this site contains my most constantly updated online content. Other sites I’ve made over the years have been:

Poetry Pages at WordPress – this is my ongoing investigation of whether I could use this blogging platform, WordPress, as a home page, thus getting rid of the Dreamweaver static content version

Hoax Coast Surfing – all about surfing on the Mornington Peninsula

The Katie Sandford story – the story of my grandmother’s wonderful life

The Tablet PC Wiki – a wiki exploring the functionality of the tablet pc in the classroom

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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

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 […]

My Must Have Mac Apps for 2017

Acknowledgements to the list-makers, whose work I enjoy so much. The structure of this list based on John Vorhees work for Mac Stories This year I’ve dug myself deeper and deeper into the Apple universe, a Mac and a Mac Mini and even using a MacBook Pro for work (not the sturdy Windows 10 workhorse) […]