[Yr7-10it] The Cloud Dance

[Christophersen, Paula P]

Roland
 
Congratulations to you and your students on this stunning achievement. Your creativity and your ability to blend together a range of curriculum threads and teaching and learning strategies to make a difference to students' learning, is to be applauded.
 
Regards
Paula

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From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Wed 1/09/2010 8:00 AM
To: Year 7 - 10 IT Mailing List; Project Atmosphere Australia; OZ-Teachers mailing list; eChalk mailing list
Subject: [Yr7-10it] The Cloud Dance



Some of you may be aware that I have fun using glove puppets to teach IT,
love of space / earth sciences and former life as a research scientist. Here
is something else from left field that links it all with a dash of drama:
     Media Release - cloud dance Aug10.odt -
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=10xA7MgprJDiR8itdMRVjOtcsh-TMFLHRmc2lEH-N7aI

I have been coaching my year 8 science class towards a production with the
STAV Science Drama awards and we just made the state finals with my Cloud
Dance, WOOT!! I am soooo excited that I could break a leg (if I had a drama
bone in my body). I now have a deeper respect for music and drama teachers
for their nail biting stress with chasing forms, finding snippets of
rehersal time, consoling students, struggling with copyright, the dark arts
of lighting and stage positioning, sewing after midnight and stage props
that go walkies.. it feels as if I am stuck on a mysterious level of
Inception.

At a recent CEGSA state conference, I had everybody up and out of their
seats doing The Cloud Dance .. anybody remember this? (grin)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/plakboek/4804422471/in/set-72157624527789702/

Ow yes, before I forget .. here is an OZ-Teachers group photo from amongst
those friends I met at CEGSA 2010.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/plakboek/4804427429/in/set-72157624527789702/

WIsh us luck for the finals this Friday evening :-)

You can follow my tweets with http://www.twitter.com/rgesthuizen

Regards Roland


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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au <http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au/> 

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