It's been a long long time since I heard my backbone crack (Artie Shaw)

I've gone gif crazy!

I was introduced into the google gif world by one of my Year 11 students. We use a profile picture on our Schoology pages (rebranded as Woodbook from henceforth).  She had a moving image as her profile picture and it looked cool - she took the time to tell me about gifs and now I'm hooked.

It's perfect for me cos I get bored easily with these things and with a gif you have to keep changing things up.

So far I've used a Star Wars image, The Silver Surfer and a wave (symbolising The Wave - the text we're studying in Level 1 NCEA). Coming up soon are these snazzy Beatle gifs.

Please let me know if you come across a cool one - always looking to mix things up - it's the way I roll.

Love and peace - Wozza

Hurry up, hurry up and wait (Blondie)

Life is starting to settle into some semblance of order with work days and weekends forming patterns. For so long we have had to snatch glimpses of normalcy and routines had no chance.

It's been an old school Sunday today. I've been doing marking and preparation for the coming week pretty much all day.

With a twist.

I've physically only marked two scrips with a pen - the rest have all been assignments delivered into a dropbox on my school schoology account. I've checked the various essays and 'written' comments on the work digitally. Apart from a couple of DOH! moments where I failed to save my comments it's been smooth sailing.

The reading and commenting on a screen has taken some adjustment. I'm from a generation that is mostly comfortable editing stuff in hard copy.

The other neat element of today was conversing with my students as I marked their work. Little messages and updates kept popping up all day long as they responded to my notices and assessments and their essays.

Cool - marking didn't seem such a chore and I got to listen to some Miles Davis, Ten Years After, Stan Getz, The Exponents and others.

Love and peace - Wozza