Author: Miss W.

I was a middle school teacher who retired in 2011 but still loves helping others. In my spare time I enjoy tracing my family history and volunteering at local library to help others with their genealogy as well as chatting with my friends around the world. But most of all, I enjoy travelling and visiting new places.

17/366 Running a chat

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Let's chat!

A couple of weeks ago, @mgraffin asked if I would mind running a #globalclassroom chat on Twitter.

How difficult could that be, I thought.

Well today  I found out:

  • how alert you have to be
  • that you need to have questions prepared
  • you need to be able to re-tweet quickly

But I think the participants, from many parts of the globe, all shared and received information on how they are connecting their students in a global world by communicating and collaborating.

Here is a link to a Google document where you could add the global projects you have taken part in.

Want to know more about #globalclassroom? Then check out the blog here.

Have you and/or your students taken part in a global project?

Please add a link in the comment section telling us about it.

15/366 Getting there

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For the first time in many years, I can now see the books on my bookshelf. I have taken off those to go in the booksale and on the bottom shelf are those relating to genealogy and Tasmanian history. The top shelf is more fiction and non-fiction I still want to keep. Many relate to Australia and include biographies.

Where have all the books gone?

14/366 Woodpile

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Earlier this month, I mentioned I had many stumps sawn off and then ground to sawdust. I don’t have a wood fire at my place, but my brother does. Today he came around to break up the wood. Hopefully he will get it taken away before I hold my big booksale in early February.

Woodpile

 

13/366 Unlucky day

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Today is the 13th January and a Friday as well. You might have noticed I didn’t post an image today mainly because I was feeling extremely ill after spending Thursday night before being sick all night. Don’t know the reason why – but am feeling better now. I certainly wasn’t in the mood to take a photo.

12/366 Shades of red

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Just outside the front door of my house is a pot of geraniums. I noticed today the various shades of red in their petals.

PS I have been told by two readers that these are actually petunias not geraniums.

Shades of red

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11/366 So near yet so far

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Today squirrel and I were on a bus trip heading to Maria Island on the east coast of Tasmania. Thought this would be a chance for squirrel to start seeing further afield in Tasmania. But alas, the weather was too bad to cross from Triabunna to Maria Island.  Instead we went on a cruise around the more sheltered bays and saw some beautiful beaches like  Shelley, Stapleton and Spring Beaches.

On the way home, we visited an Australian Bush Garden created in an old disused quarry by 12 members of the Australian Plants Group, Tasmanian Division. Here squirrel saw some of our native plants and animals such as frogs and a wedge tailed eagle.

 

10/366 Windy weather

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We have had some extremely windy weather over the last couple of days. Luckily, I had the flowering gum thinned out a few weeks ago, otherwise there would have been a lot more branches over my lawn. The birds have gotten used to the barer branches. Here is a link to what the lower branches looked like this time last year.

Less branches now

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7/366 Forgot the tablet

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When at the local shop yesterday, I purchased some fuel for the lawnmower. Decided to mow the lawn today, being Saturday, typical thing to do on the weekend. But forgot I hadn’t taken the hayfever tablet this morning. Now I am sneezing, coughing and runny nose, while the lawn is only half cut.

Half cut, forgot the hayfever tablet

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