Watershed » Life http://blog.larkin.net.au Thoughts on teaching, technology, learning and life in an era of change. Sun, 11 Oct 2015 03:37:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Farewell to the old site http://blog.larkin.net.au/2011/01/02/farewell-to-the-old-site/ http://blog.larkin.net.au/2011/01/02/farewell-to-the-old-site/#comments Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:57:52 +0000 John Larkin http://blog.larkin.net.au/?p=1269 I have decided to bid farewell to the old web site at www.larkin.net.au as well as this blog and start anew.

So please link to the new site. Simply going to call it John Larkin. Original, eh? It will incorporate the new blog.

This new site is starting from scratch. Simple. This is the second post. Nothing much happening so far.

I will add to the site gradually and hopefully you can watch it evolve as I add plug-ins, content and code. My original plan was to have a complete web site up and running with all the galleries, workshop materials, resources and content. Too time consuming and too bloody difficult. My workshop resources and teacher guides will be the initial items added to the site in the coming days.

The Feedburner RSS feed address for my new blog remains unchanged at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Teachtech

TeachTech was my old blogger blog from way back in the mists of time.

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Leadership and power. The two go hand in hand yet both are different. Quite different.

Leadership can inspire. Power on its own cannot.

Power can cause change. Power can do good. Power can do bad. Power can corrupt.

People sometimes find themselves in a position of leadership yet they fail to grasp the meaning of the tern ‘leadership’. They exercise power yet they do not exercise leadership. They do not inspire. Those that follow do not do so by choice. They do not follow due to inspiration.

Those in a position of leadership must rise up beyond the self and consider the community. Leadership must inspire.

It is the difference between a politician and a statesman. Politicians merely attempt to exercise power. Statesmen lead. Not too sure if any of Australia’s crop of politicians in Canberra could be considered statesmen. As for those New South Wales, well, what can I say?

Photo credit: Leadership. http://www.flickr.com/people/pedrosimoes7/

]]> http://blog.larkin.net.au/2010/02/14/leadership-versus-power/feed/ 0 Do you like telling stories? http://blog.larkin.net.au/2009/10/13/do-you-like-telling-stories/ http://blog.larkin.net.au/2009/10/13/do-you-like-telling-stories/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:11:06 +0000 John Larkin http://blog.larkin.net.au/?p=949 I like telling stories. What sort of stories do I like to tell? Stories about days at school, life in the ANZ Bank, stories my father told me, historic sagas and the like.

Where do stories come from? Have you ever wondered about that? Stories come from passion, imagination, experience, tragedy, success, life and death. Stories come from places you have been, places you want to be. Stories come from inside you. Stories come from people you want to be.

Friends

Friends

Stories can be ignited… by loss, joy, grief, happiness, a turning point, a decision.

Where do stories go? They can travel back in time, leap forward to the future, go deep into your heart. Stories can take you to places that you know and places that you don’t. They can be a vehicle of juxtaposition and transposition as you venture into another dimension.

Mother and daughter, Kyoto.

Mother and daughter, Kyoto.

The sad thing is that some stories never survive. They are not written down. They are not recorded. They are not remembered. They are lost… forever.

Now is the time to record those stories. The ways and means are readily available. Write a blog, record your voice on the computer, make a podcast, make a video. Not next week or next year, but now if you can. Teach your students, teach your relatives, teach your friends, teach yourself.

Do you like telling stories?

Here are some links to get you started…

Alan Levine: Wiki ~ Follow the link to 50 ways to tell a story wiki
Alan Levine: Open Discussion on 50+ ways to tell a story
Alan Levine and Bryan Alexander: Educause article on 50+ ways to tell a story ~ PDF
Alan Levine: New Media Consortium Presentation: 50 Ways to Tell a Story
Miguel Guhlin: Digital storytelling workshop wiki
Miguel Guhlin: Place based storytelling
Miguel Guhlin: Digital storytelling with web based tools ~ Wiki
Miguel Guhlin: Voicethread Tutorial
Matthew Needleman: Digital Storytelling Blog Carnival #1 and #2
Educational Origami ~ Voicethread Tutorial
Web 2.0 Storytelling Wiki
Center for Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling Toolkit
Instructify: Digital Storytelling
Keeping the Mood Light: Digital Storytelling
Open Thinking: Center for Future Storytelling
The Art of Storytelling
International Day of Sharing Life Stories

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