MIAOW
My interesting app of the week is…
RunKeeper
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/runkeeper/id300235330?mt=8
This free app uses GPS technology to keep track of your physical fitness activity, including workouts on the treadmill. The latest version can be paused at traffic lights giving more accurate results.
MIAOW factor: 7/10
BOW
The Book of the Week is…
A gentleman’s guide to beard and moustache management by Chris Martin
Be prepared in advance for Movember 2012. Find out all the best grooming tips in this intriguing little book. The book also includes a guide to famous moustache and beard wearers throughout history such as Karl Marx, Charlie Chaplain, Clark Gable, Abraham Lincoln, Jesus, John Lennon and of course, Santa Claus. Discover quotations about beards and moustaches and world records such as the longest moustache, greatest weight lifted by a beard, and the largest group of people with moustaches in one place. Something to beat next year?
BOW factor: 9/10
WOW
The Website of the week is…
iLearn technology: an edublog about integrating technology into the classroom
http://www.ilearntechnology.com/
Use the search function to discover engaging teaching and learning strategies, lesson plans, videos, games and Web 2.0 tools in this edublog. Enhance the student’s understanding of research skills using a unique visual representation of the process.
WOW factor: 8/10
MIAOW
My Interesting App of the Week is…
MIAOW factor: 9/10
BOW
The Book(s) of the Week is…
DK Eyewitness Travel: Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
In case you may be considering an exciting adventure overseas in the near future, I have chosen this book as just one example of our large range of Eyewitness guides to other countries. Our collection has been expanded this year and now includes such diverse and exotic countries as Croatia, Bulgaria, Czech and Slovac Republics, as well as Asian countries such as Bali, China, India and Malaysia and the ever-popular travel destinations such as France, Italy, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, Greece and France.
BOW factor: 9/10
WOW
The Website of the week is…
Great Australian Leaders in Focus
http://www.ourcommunity.com.au/leadership/leadership_article.jsp?articleId=744
A perfect adjunt to the Leadership Course, this website provided links to interviews with recognised Australian community leaders reflecting on the qualities of a successful leader. The leaders interviewed include Dr Anne Summers AO, The Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser, AC. CH, Professor Allan Fels AO, The Hon Joan Kirner AM and many others.
WOW factor: 7/10
From Mrs Judi Hurst
MIAOW
My Interesting App of the Week is… Boom!!!
Improve the volume of your mac’s speakers with this app. Not free unfortunately but an outlay of only nine dollars will enable you to improve the quality as well as the volume. We’ll be right next time for the Melbourne Cup in the CLL!
MIAOW factor: 7/10
BOW
The Book of the Week is… My favourite teacher edited by Robert Macklin
This is just the book to pick up for the weekend at this time of year when you need a boost. The book is a collection of tributes to fondly remembered teachers by well-known Australian personalities. I particularly enjoyed The power to transform eloquently written for the introduction by the Governor General, Quentin Bryce. Other fascinating reminiscences included those from Anh Do, Peter Sculthorpe, Ron Clarke, David Helfgott, Ticky Fullerton, Alan Jones and Julian Morrow.
I can’t resist a couple of quotes:
“She looked amazing; same beautiful smile, same glint in her eye that emanated a wonderful generosity and promised that this little grey-haired lady was going to believe in you and give you every chance of learning and growing.” (Anh Do)
“The intersection – by chance – of a teacher, a subject and a group of students had a certain alchemy to it. But it is the genius of the teacher that creates the right atmosphere, and lights the spark…..She opened our minds and filled us with an enthusiastic sense of possibility. You won’t find that on a syllabus anywhere, and it’s not tested in any exams. But it is the mark of a great teacher.” (Julian Morrow)
Read more stories and consider adding your own on the My Favourite Teacher website.
BOW factor: 7/10
P.S. Who spotted a King’s School identity look-alike in the BOW last week?
Our BOWs are on display and available to borrow every week at the CLL Reception desk.
WOW
The Website of the week is…Book Drum
Thanks to Bronwyn for alerting me to this fascinating new website. You need to register (free) to use all the features of this interactive site linking booklovers across the globe and uncovering a wealth of information about locations mentioned in such a variety of literary texts as well as summaries, reviews and author biographical information. Useful for teachers developing class projects but just as intriguing for your own general knowledge. Try creating your own review or adding to an existing profile or simply enjoy panning or zooming in on the maps. I think someone should add Blizzard Lines to Antarctica.
WOW factor: 8/10
From Mrs Judi Hurst
MIAOW
My Interesting App of the Week is… Calibre
This free app is an e-book manger and e-reader, compatible with many different devices including the ipad and Kindle. Calibre enables you to sort and to search your e-book collection and converts file types into the platform you require on your own device.
MIAOW factor: 7/10
BOW
The Book of the Week is…
Gentleman: a timeless guide to fashion by Bernhard Roetzel
For this week I have chosen something a little different from our non-fiction collection and a perfect complement to our Boys to Men course. The book delves into the history and customs relating to every aspect of men’s fashionable dress, from khaki couture to the toupe, panama hats to underwear, Italian moccasins to timeless scents and answers such puzzling questions as how trousers got their cuffs, and the correct way to pack a suitcase and travel in style.
A very stylish and classy book, filled with delightful illustrations and valuable information that will entertain and enlighten the reader.
BOW factor: 9/10
WOW
The Website of the week is…
The why files- the science behind the news
Despite the US slant, this site is a fascinating one, enhancing general knowledge and providing scientific information about current events. Today’s topics explore the earthquake in Turkey, floods in Thailand, and many more. A virtual science link enables you to take part in virtual experiments by interacting online.
WOW factor: 8/10
From Mrs Judi Hurst
MIAOW
This week our MIAOW has been nominated by Rob Alexander
Rob’s Interesting App of the Week- Caffeine 
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/caffeine/id411246225?mt=12
Don’t you hate it when you’ve projected something on the board, you’re in the middle of teaching, and your laptop falls asleep or the screen saver comes on? Or you are reading a newspaper article and the screen dims? This little Mac App will ensure that doesn’t happen – with one click. It’s a free app, available from the Mac App Store.
MIAOW factor: 9/10
BOW
The Book of the Week is…Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Reviewed by Bronwyn McLoughlin
Brooks delights in finding a little known corner of history to uncover and expose, and this is no exception. With her customary attention to historical detail, even in this case to the awkward English of puritanical America, and the engaging characters with whom she populates her works, she weaves a wonderful story that embraces so many issues with great insight. Caleb is a Native American, nephew to a medicine man. He lives a tribal life on the islands off Massachusetts. Secretly befriended as a child by Bethia, the daughter of a local missionary, Caleb learns to speak English. After his tribe is decimated by Smallpox, while he is undergoing his manhood training in the wilderness, he is able to build relations with the white missionaries and is welcomed into Bethia’s family. Bethia herself suffers great losses and hardship – she is an intelligent young woman who is forbidden to study the classics or undertake an academic education at all, deferring instead to her slow witted brother. Her life is controlled by the men in her family. She is both their domestic servant and something to be bartered. They dictate suitable marriage partners and plan her future without any consideration of her desires.
Caleb “crosses” to the mainland to study at Harvard, as yet in its infancy, with the help of benevolent societies from England who are keen to sponsor Native American education and missionary work. This physical crossing quite obviously parallels his crossing from tribal society to English society, but the crossing is not just Caleb’s. It is also Bethia’s story to tell. The crossing is far from straightforward, and as the aged and dying Bethia relates, ultimately fraught with potential disaster. This account of how the earliest English settlements of North America dealt with the Native Populations, or not, as the case may be, also reminds of the reasons why the Puritans settled North America at all. Religious disputations and disagreements, it seems, have not really progressed very far, and the comparison with modern sentiments is worth making. An intelligent read and worthwhile.
BOW factor: 9/10
WOW
The Website of the week is…The secret annex online
http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/
This website was produced last year to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the opening of Anne Frank’s House to the public in 1960. A 3D tour of the secret annex, furnished as it would have been at that time, is a highlight and photos and film clips add further depth. The commentary explains in detail the events taking place at the time. Read the stories of everyone who lived in the hiding place and the people who supported them.
This excellent website won a Webby Award in 2010 as one of the best websites created worldwide and also an Adobe Max Award.
WOW factor: 9/10
From Mrs Judi Hurst
