I’m playing with Flickr this afternoon, and have had some fun exploring, clicking on links and playing with tools

Do you like my Spell with Flickr creation?

And look what I found while clicking around the World map! Exactly the kind of thing I’d been dreaming up earlier this week: Palette, by Jakerome

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I’ve been reading Will Richardson’s blog Weblogg-ed today, and find myself clicking link after link, following through fascinating ideas and pertinent quotes…

It would be easy to spend the entire day doing this, letting my head fill with fireworks as each new idea lets off another multi-coloured explosion of exciting possibilities.

However, I have other tasks to do – housework, lesson plans, 23 Things tutorials to design, socks to knit… I’ll have to let what I’ve read so far satisfy me until I have time to tackle some more.

There are never enough minutes in the day to accommodate all of the ‘oughts’ and ‘want tos’ along with the ‘musts’.

Original image: ‘fireworks at Israel 60th Celebration‘
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by: Ziv Turner

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Before Picasso went completely abstract…

Me, with class

Actually, I’m a bit of a nerd, always have been, always will be. I love books, reading, enjoy school and studying, card games that don’t involve gambling, backgammon, I’m untidy, frequently disorganised, often late, I like Lego, jigsaw puzzles and hard Sudoku. I have been known to garden, sew, embroider, cross-stitch, and think that there is no such thing as too many cookbooks or too much wool. These days I like messing around on the internet, chatting to online knitting friends in our knitter’s online community or via our knitblogs (could I be any cooler??) and trying out new gadgets and gimmicks.
Some of these things point to what kind of learner I am.

• Eclectic. I am interested in almost everything, particularly anything crafty, mathematical, scientific, colourful, communication-related or just really, really fun. Politics, economics and sport do not thrill me.
• Interactive - I generally learn by watching and doing, rather than by reading or inventing.
• Communicative - I like to talk through my ideas and thought processes; if I am writing something I draft and rewrite things several times as I work through my own developing understanding of the concept. (This is probably why I talk so much)
• Visual - I like using different colours for different lists on the whiteboard, and I love concept maps! If something is completely unfamilar to me I like to see it in action before trying it myself, although I am happy to experiment once I have the basic idea.
• Moderately adventurous. I like trying new recipes, going to new places, meeting new people. however I don’t like starting absolutely blind – I want to read the whole recipe and see a picture, or work out how far away the new place is before we head out. 

Busy, busy, busy! I have so many things going on each week that I never seem to sit down and blog the good ones – nor the bad or ugly, either! Which is a shame, because **** segue alert!! **** I am running a 23 Things course for interested staff at my school, which runs on blogging, and I should be practising what I preach, yes?

So, a fun moment to finish my week – I had pointed out one of my recent purchases, Zombie Haiku, to an English teacher colleague. Giggling over it before her lesson started, I suggested she read the first few pages out to her class, and ask them to figure out what was going on. Some of them were mystified, while a few had heard us talking earlier and knew what was going on. Discussion of why I found it funny brought us around to the beautiful traditions of haiku, and how ridiculous it was for an intellectually-dead zombie to write any. One student wanted to know whether I’d finished reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies yet (no, and I won’t either; just not my shtick), which led to a suggestion of zombifying classic fairy tales – the first suggestion? Cinderella! I hope that the boys do have a chance to try out their skills at transforming some well-known story in this way – although some will be choosing something other than zombies, as there were a few revolted expressions around when we got to the ‘brains, brains, brains’ haiku!

I leave you with the Official Commercial, found on the Official Zombie Haiku site: