Monday, August 30, 2010

375/242 - Pet Day


375/242 - Pet Day, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

On duty today I was called over to check the pet a boy had bought to school - an eel!

365/241 - Post-It


365/241 - Post-It, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Packs of post-it notes I picked up cheap.

365/240 - Garage Cat


365/240 - Garage Cat, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Our beautiful big Ginger Tom emerging from his place of rest just inside the garage door.

365/239 - More Construction


365/239 - More Construction, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

This is after the wall went and before the carpet went!

365/238 - Galaxies


365/238 - Galaxies, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Background image for a movie preso by a group of my students.

365/237 - DE Carpet


365/237 - DE Carpet, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Carpet all ripped up ... wonder what will go down?

365/236 - DE construction


365/236 - DE construction, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Builders starting on the next phase in the construction - by deconstructing the wall/passage way outside my classroom.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

365/235 - Spring is sprung?


365/235 - Spring is sprung?, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

365/234 - Nebula


365/234 - Nebula, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

365/233 - Water Whirler


365/233 - Water Whirler, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Wellington is known for it's many modern sculptures but over the last few years I've never seen Len Lye's Water Whirler in action until now.

365/232 - Framed


365/232 - Framed, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

A shot of the moon taken from my classroom looking through the support beam at the top of the steps.

Worst Table


Worst Table, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Table decoration for Wild Olive Cafe's Worst Table dining promotion. Had a fantastic dinner there with my son. (The promotion is sit at the 'worst' table and get 50% discount on your meal!)

365/231 - LegoMe


365/231 - LegoMe, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Another photo from the Lego Files!

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

365/229 - Otherwise Fine


365/229 - Otherwise Fine, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

I took this photo before school - it's the view looking out from the balcony of the temporary office towards the hall and classrooms. No prizes for guessing the weather!

Sunday, August 15, 2010

365/227 - Sunset splendor


365/227 - Sunset splendor, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

A glimpse of tonight's glorious sunset - I saw it reflected in a mirror and went outside to check it out. Took some video and photos. Less than 10 minutes later it's all gone.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

365/226 - Toasted


365/226 - Toasted, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Nothing better than toast with marmalade.

365/225 - Conversations


365/225 - Conversations, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

A humorous conversation taking place on the whiteboard in our pantry at home. (Between 4 people)

365/224 - Horizon


365/224 - Horizon, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

A view of Kapiti Island taken from the train.

365/223 - Sunset


365/223 - Sunset, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Sunset shot from my balcony.

365/222 - Metamorphasis


365/222 - Metamorphasis, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Discovered on the way to school and brought in for me to see before releasing.

365/221 - New Bloom


365/221 - New Bloom, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Ever hopeful new buds trying to bloom.

365/220 - Mystery object


365/220 - Mystery object, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Guess what this object is and how I managed to photograph it.

365/219 - Hercules Morse


365/219 - Hercules Morse, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Hercules Morse is alive and well.

365/218 - Performance


365/218 - Performance, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Sharing our visual podcasts at our whole school assembly.

365/217 - Tracking


365/217 - Tracking, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

A present from one of my parents - the kids love being able to control my laptop from anywhere in the classroom.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

365/216 - Chess


365/216 - Chess, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

It seems we have a new chess champion. I borrowed this set but will have to go buy one for the class.

365/215 - Mobile Learning


365/215 - Mobile Learning, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

We were doing research in class in groups and these two boys asked if they could use the iTouch to do their research on. Who says the teacher is in charge of learning?

Is this authentic use of technology in the classroom? I think so.

365/214 - Fishy Dreams


365/214 - Fishy Dreams, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Had a lot of fun trying out a new app for the iPhone camera - Camera+

Sunday, August 1, 2010

365/213 - Mary in the distance

Sight from one entrance to our local shopping mall. Looking up to the hills. (Also the first shot to be geotagged using the iPhone)

365/212 - 3GS


365/212 - 3GS, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

My new baby! Decided to go for this instead of 4 as it was better value for money.

365/211 - 8 men, 2 boys and 1 canoe

A shot from one of the groups trying to figure out a maths problem set by students from another school.

365/210 - Hide-n-seek


365/210 - Hide-n-seek, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Somewhere in the middle of that plant is a bird doing a very good job of hiding from me!

365/209 - Annie


365/209 - Annie, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

We went across our back field to the local high school (Kapiti College) to see their performance of Annie. Our favourite character was the dog (large shaggy german shepherd) who played the dog Sandy.

365/208 - Texture


365/208 - Texture, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

A shot of an old, worn velvet quilt.

365/207 - Blur


365/207 - Blur, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

An accidental shot - but quite effective and colourful.

365/205 - Moon Shot


365/205 - Moon Shot, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

I'm very proud of this shot - I zoomed in as much as I could to get this photo.

365/202 - Recording


365/202 - Recording, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Using the iTouch and Speakeasy thumb tack mic to record a conversation during a class discussion time.

365/199 - Blue


365/199 - Blue, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

One of the goldfish had a fungal infection and the stuff we bought to fix turned the water blue.

365/206 - Coffee


365/206 - Coffee, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

The girls at the cafe know I take the pictures and send to twitter so they try to make my coffee as beautiful looking as possible.

365/204 - iTouch recording


365/204 - iTouch recording, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Using an iTouch to record the weekly podcast.

365/203 - Timeline


365/203 - Timeline, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

As part of our week 1 reading we created timelines of the events in the story we were reading as a whole class (The Patupaiarehe).

365/201 - Geese

365/201 - Geese

If you look hard enough you'll the v formation of geese that went overhead as I was on playground duty.

365/200 - Birthday Dragon


365/200 - Birthday Dragon, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

My birthday present from @SpacegirlNZ was waiting for me outside my door when I woke this morning. She had knitted a flannel (face cloth) for me with a dragon pattern in it.

365/198 - Planning Finished


365/198 - Planning Finished, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Bits of my planning once I'd finished. A nice feeling!

365/197 - Takeaway Coffee


365/197 - Takeaway Coffee, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Even my takeaway coffee is pretty!

365/196 - Sunset Clouds


365/196 - Sunset Clouds, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

Freaky looking clouds in the sky - almost like there was smoke or ash below the cloud layer.

365/195 - Kapiti Close Up


365/195 - Kapiti Close Up, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

I was trying to get the detail of the island in this shot. A peaceful day.

365/194 - Football


365/194 - Football, originally uploaded by dragonsinger.

I won these in a twitter competition - very nice!