Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson’s Australia by verseguru
This week in year nine history I read a quotation from Bill Bryson’s book Down Under which is called In a Sunburnt Country outside Australia.
While I like this book a lot his favourite book of mine is his first which is called The Lost Continent. It was which was published in [...]
Hello Hello
The Art of Saying Hello… 1 & 2 by Thomas Rockstar
A quick hello to the staff and students at my new school.
With any luck at all I might have something either substantial or sensible to say soon.
Melina and Francesca
In Dreams by Pensiero
I have just finished Melina Marcetta’s Saving Francesca, a book for Year 10 English, and I enjoyed much more than I thought I would.
I’ll talk more about the book later but for now I just wanted to mention some valuable links both about the book and the author.
The Teacher’s Guide – covers [...]
Quick Burst of Science
science by S. Lo
Another podcast I have just subscribed to is 60 Second Science from the Scientific American Magazine.
They have another weekly podcast which I like which goes for half an hour. It’s a good show but there are times when people talking science for thirty minutes is more than I can take.
The 60 second [...]
Grammar Girl
INTERJECTIONS close-up. by spinooti
I added links to a couple of podcasts yesterday. One of them was Grammar Girl which I thought might be interesting to listen to since I am teaching English this year.
Each episode seems to go for about five minutes and answers common questions about grammar.
I did think it might be the sort [...]
New School
Dover Western Heights by www.doverpast.co.uk
I found out the other day that I will start at Western Heights College in Geelong next week most likely teaching English and SOSE.
I don’t know exactly which classes levels and subjects I have yet but I have heard good things about the interesting things they do at this school. In [...]
Animal Facts
Melbourne Zoo 068a by craigster_jd
I am a big fan of the zoo. There is something quite different about seeing animals in person which I like.
Another thing I like is that the Melbourne Zoo provides fact sheets about heaps of animals from Asian Elephants to Zebras.
Teacher Blogs
Our Teachers by PhylG
When I look around I see plenty of blogs written by teachers about their teaching. I see plenty of teachers and others writing about educational theory. And I even see a few that function as a newsletter for interested parents.
But I don’t see many like this that are for a teacher to [...]