This is my son’s 21st birthday quilt, there’s a bit of a mythical creatures theme in my quilting at the moment.
Finished the quilt!
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Interesting Discussions About Cyber Safety
Have a look here for interesting thoughts on whose responsibility it is to make sure our students are using social networking safely and appropriately. Read the comments and follow the links – this is what the web is good at (but you can get lost in it really quickly!).
Progress of the dragon quilt
The almost finished quilt top – now I just have to quilt it before the big 21st birthday in December!
What I Learned at the SLAV Library Technician’s Conference
1. When you’re part of a very small library staff, it’s nice to find yourself in a room with hundreds of others who do the same job as you!
2. Trade displays are good for finding information and getting free pens.
3. You can spend half an hour discussing what’s wrong with a lolly wrapper and how to make it better if the person asking you to do that (Jason Clarke from Minds at Work) is entertaining enough. You can listen to him talk here
4. Even though I didn’t hear Heather Baillie talk about her experience of the Learning with Web 2.0 programme (which started me out on this Blog), I can still find out what she said here
5. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has vast amounts of information about Australia. Check out the Australian Population Clock, watch as our population grows.
6. The State Library of Victoria has a fantastic new website called Ergo which has heaps of information on research skills, study skills and essay writing, as well as Australian History resources.
7. The ABC is truly a national treasure – have a look at Rollermache this is what it does – “Rollermache is a digital initiative aimed especially towards kids aged 8-15 living outside of metropolitan areas. It is focused towards showing this audience as well as children in city areas how to make their own content. The Rollermache website site also provides them with a safe space to showcase their creations that is both free and accessible to school and home computers.
All content that appears on the site has been watched and approved by an ABC moderator before it appears on the site. While predominantly for kids, the site can also be used in schools to promote digital literacy, media production and safe interaction in a context of exploring creativity and having fun.”
8. If you leave right on 3.30 you can make it to Jolimont in time for the 3.43 Hurstbridge train.
What I did in my holidays
Here’s another view of Mount Arapiles, I’ve been playing with Photo Story this evening. Don’t listen to the boring narration, I don’t normally talk like that, this is the first time I’ve used a microphone for years. This is a big file (about 11 Mb), perhaps it would have been smaller if I’d shrunk the photos first but I didn’t think of that!
Mt Arapiles in late September
Wattles at Mount Arapiles in late September
Jackson Pollock Painting
Go here http://jacksonpollock.org/ and make one yourself. It’s good for the brain to try and work out how it works!
Snow at Beech Forest Victoria 10/8/2008
We went away for the weekend to Beech Forest. It was very cold and when we woke up this morning, this is what it looked like.
abbott and costello
Wordle – a fun way to play with words
Here’s a wordle of my Del.icio.us bookmarks. To make your own Wordle go to http://wordle.net/create and put in some words. The size of the print depends on how many times the words come up. To change the look, use the tabs at the top or click the randomize button until you find one you like. The easiest way to save your wordle is to press the PrintScreen key, then open a drawing programme and paste it in, you can then crop it as required.