Mrs B @ UWC
 
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On Travel by UggBoy+UggGirl

1. Travel broadens the mind. Living and working overseas has taught me so much about understanding and appreciating cultural diversity. I am a much better person/educator/parent for having traveled.
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Chrysalis by MrWoodnz


2. Change is inevitable. Some people find it hard to deal with, but I think it is a part of life we have to get used to.
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Macheads by me
3. Working with young people is an amazing privilege. It is a pleasure to see the way my students grow up, the decisions they make, and the people they become. I watch you with pride.
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Time Travel by Ben Dodson


4. My best ideas sometimes come at 2am. While this is frequently annoying, it is also very energizing.
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By Kate Griffiths


5. Having children is the most challenging and most rewarding thing I will ever do. When you have kids, a little piece of your heart lives in them forever.
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Balloons Over Waikato by me

6. Home isn't always a fixed place. I think home is where my family is, and right now, that is both Singapore AND NZ.
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Whanau by me

7. You can't choose your family, but if you could, I'd choose every member of mine.
The whole, mad lot of them.
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Tech Friends by me

8. Technology has helped me turn strangers into friends. I will be eternally grateful for this.
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Bookshelf Spectrum Revisited by Chotda

9. I am thankful I have a love of reading. I can escape to another world and not even hear people around me with a good book. Reading has given me a huge amount of pleasure in my life.
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UWC Staff by Fazree


10. When you live overseas, your friends become your family. I am surrounded with a fabulously supportive group of friends & colleagues who enrich my life. How lucky am I?
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2500 Creative Commons Licenses by qthomasbower
It is probably no surprise to any students I teach, that I think Creative Commons licensing deserves a bigger audience. They are probably thoroughly sick of hearing me go on about it, frankly!

It started here, was featured again here, made another appearance here, and of course our blogging expectations also feature an expectation to use Creative Commons licensed images.

In case you have managed to escape my (repeated) rants about CC licensing, here is a short excerpt from Wikipedia which explains it:
 
"Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization... devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[1] The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators."
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creative commons -Franz Patzig- by A. Diez Herrero
Basically, you can use CC licensed images for your own purposes, provided you meet the conditions of the licenses the original author of the work has selected.

I believe this is important and worth knowing because it signifies acting with integrity and honesty, and credits the original author of the work for the effort they have put in to creating something.

I also love the way that it enables students access to high quality images/audio/video to let them create things, beyond what they would ordinarily be capable of achieving. It teaches responsible digital citizenship, and helps them understand that when they create something, they might like to share it too, so that others have a chance to create something new.

Today's students are familiar with videos going viral. I hope that the use and licensing of CC content goes viral, so that we can all benefit from our collective creativity.
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Here are my initial thoughts on what I might like to blog about. Do you have any other suggestions for me? I would love to hear your thoughts.
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