Friday, July 7th, 2006
Ennis and I have launched a blog dedicated to the bard, William Shakespeare, and his plays in film. Ennis, my wife, teaches English at secondary school level and over time has used a number of Shakespeare-related films in the classroom. ‘Shakespeare in Film’ will explore the range of DVDs available to teachers. We’ve started with Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 classic, “William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet”. We’ll cover other classics directed by Kenneth Branagh and so on, but also spin-offs such as 10 Things I Hate About You, Shakespeare in Love, West Side Story, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Shakespeare In Film
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Monday, January 30th, 2006
The office where I work is starting to fill up with school bags stuffed with books, pencils, scissors, basketballs and scocer balls.
“Why?” you may ask.
Educating children in the Solomon Islands is a challenge. As well as geographic isolation and the history of recent conflict in the area, the lack of resources available in the islands mean that the children have little access to study materials and educational resources.
School Packs for the Solomons is a project designed to allow you to provide school children in the Solomons with some educational resources.
The Uniting Church in Australia has asked the United Church of Solomon Islands, what would be useful in school packs. Together we have come up with a list of contents which would be used by children and young people who attend schools particularly in the Western provinces. It is here that the our partner church The United Church in Solomon Islands can best offer support to school children who are working with limited resources.
When you pack a school bag and return the bag to us, we will add a broad brimmed hat and an English language copy of the New Testament. The bags will then be shipped to the United Church in Solomon Islands who will distribute the resources amongst the schools.
See more of the story at the Uniting Church Queensland Synod web site.
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
I’ve posted tonight on the 1999 Instant Kiwi Exam television ad at Duncan’s TV Adland. It was a classic ad that still gets a laugh and has been hosted on ‘funny video’ web sites around the world. Watching it again tonight I noticed for the first time the significance of the apple on the supervisor’s desk.
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