News Reports
Beware – The Aggressive Red Pen
Throw out the red pens – according to Queensland Health – they are too aggressive.
I heard this on the news tonight and thought how ridiculous.
TEACHERS are being warned to use bean bags to reduce student stress, organise “mind dumps” to clear kids’ thoughts and even stop using “aggressive” red pens.
In a controversial suite of tips [...]
That’ll learn ‘em
The boss showed me this recent newspaper clipping – Teachers in Texas have been allowed to carry concealed firearms to protect against school shootings when classes return.
Six-figure pay for ACT Teachers???
This newspaper report from the Canberra Times talks about how the ACT Education Minister believes that their best teachers should be earning $100,000.
What is interesting though is actually hearing it come from a minister within the Government.
Maybe we’ll need to keep an eye on the positions vacant within ACT over the next couple of years???
The [...]
Gmail for students
From The Australian comes this report. It would be very handy if we could have access to all the other Google Apps as well – Chat, Docs and Calendar.
GOOGLE has edged out some of the biggest brands in the enterprise IT services market to pick up another major contract win in Australia’s education sector.
Google partner [...]
Apple Store, Sydney opens
It looks impressive, don’t it?? I think I would have enjoyed going to the opening of the new Apple Store in Sydney. Located on George Street, apparently it has the biggest sheets of laminated glass in the world, biggest Apple Logo in the world, biggest Genius Bar in the world. It’s not the largest store [...]
Smiles all around
According to the Daily Mail, Cann Hall Primary School in Clacton, Essex is covering up the faces of pupils in photos on its website with a smiley. Seems to me, that it sort of defeats the purpose of putting photos on the website? Is it a bit too overprotective??
Birthday Parties @ School
Now this type of Birthday Party doesn’t happen at school very often. From the Adelaide Now online paper (and many others) comes this report:
Stripper performs saucy show for schoolboys in booking mix-up
A STRIPPER performed for a classroom full of teenagers, spanked a birthday boy and asked him to rub cream over her after a booking [...]
SMART World Teachers’ Day Video Contest 2007
The winners of Smarttech’s World Teachers’ Day Video Contest for 2007 have been announced – with the global winner being Miss Lisa McCallum, a Kindergarten teacher at St. Therese Primary School in Sydney, Australia. View their winning video now by clicking the picture below.
A Hell of a name..
Here’s a news article I came across the other day, What’s in a name? For would-be pupil Max Hell, it’s been, well, hell, over at The Age newspaper.
Apparently, it has been alleged that this catholic school refused enrolment based on the child’s surname – Hell.
Now we wouldn’t see that happening in a public school would [...]