tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74016182011-10-16T22:19:59.126+10:00The O'Farrell family of Alexandria, then Campbelltown, now Ashgrove, Brisbane....soon to be back in Sydney for goodDeek O'Farrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469375879201206303noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401618.post-32492655243861924622011-10-16T16:38:00.001+10:002011-10-16T16:44:10.164+10:00

Sammy having fun on the cars at Dreamworld ------------------------------------------------------------

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Samantha getting ready for "spooky Monday" ------------------------------------------------------------

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Ken Robinson talking on Changing paradigms in education. A very engaging presenter with some interesting ideas on education.

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My old mate Micky B got me looking at WordPress again after what he is doing at St Mary's. http://maristashgrove.wordpress.com/

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Samantha wanted to send a little message to Coogee via her website. She got a little gift at Mater Dei to carry her reading books.......

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Sammy didn't take long to settle in.....

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Samantha and Dad went off to Sammy's first day at Mater Dei, her new school next year to meet the teachers and all the other preppies. She met Mrs Scott and Mrs Orchard and saw Chloe Corboy singing and dancing in the church. She had a great day once she saw some of her 'old' friends from the Woods.

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Halloween costumes...  Tomorrow I head off to Samantha's new school Mater Dei that she begins next year. She is really excited about starting Prep. Who can believe where all the time has gone. She sure is growing up fast.

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It has been a big few weeks planning for one of the big events on our annual calendar, Founders day celebrations and now it is all over. Things began on Thurs 3 June with whole school singing and liturgy practices and then that afternoon the Superior General and Vicar General of the Marist Brothers' dropped in to chat with about 50 keen teachers and supporters to listen. Friday was D Day -

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This was the catch cry and theme for our recent Joint Formation Encounter between Marist Brothers' and Lay Marists in Mittagong. In the words of Br Pau Fornells, the Director of Marist Bureau of the Laity, he said • It is a time of thinking of the Church being born. • It is a time of building together, as Marist Companions, the Church that Jesus spirit wants here today in Oceania. • It is

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Have just returned from 5 wonderful days on Joint Formation Encounter with the greatest bunch people (minus one I work with!!..haha Peter if you're reading) in Mittagong, the spiritual home of the Marists just outside of Sydney. Arrived back home in Brisbane last night about 8:30pm and started trying to explain to my wife what had been happening over the past 5 days. I realised today talking to

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Rob and Luke on holidays in France

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Capt Steve!! Originally uploaded by LearningForwardHey Stevo, Good to see you are keeping busy. You never just take holidays do you? Anyway laid up with sprained ankle watching the waves roll in from Star of the Sea Terrigal. Will follow your feeds and hope to bring the Ashgrove team down to visit the new mecca at Northern Beaches. soon. Cheers Mark

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Aunty Trine has returned home from the shops with a little toy for Sammy!

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I spent this week visiting schools in Sydney and Parramatta Diocese to investigate progress with implementation of 1-1 laptop models and learning space. By far the most outstanding example of where school vision and leadership matches what is happening with learning space design and pedagogy was at Parramatta Marist High School - the oldest Catholic school in Australia. I will be returning with

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Twisted my ankle badly last night coming home from dinner. Had little Samantha in one arm and fell into a pothole and crashed onto the street. Here is the foot. Not a great way to start holidays!

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P032310CK-0627Originally uploaded by The White HouseA big day in American history. They said it couldn't happen but President Obama signd the Health Insurance Bill with 22 different pens.

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This is a test post for my Yr 12 2008 Studies of Religion class at St Gregs.

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20 June 2007. Little Samantha is now 1 year old. Who can believe it? One year has gone so quickly. We did not plan a big day.......will organise a family get together later when we can get everyone together so.....started with Marky starting his day a little later so he could have breaky with little Sam and her Mum. Opened a few gifts that Mum had got her. Clothes, books etc and some gifts from

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Danielle and I are now back from Cairns where we worked our little fingers to the bone getting the message out to anybody who would listen that to be great teachers you need great role models - like us!! Only kidding. It was a great 4 days and we were both really happy to receive recognition for our work on using digital storytelling to develop boys' literacy.We now are busy developing the unit

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One of the hot sessions at ACEC 2006!! Seriously it was most enjoyable presenting a paper to colleagues that took 6 months of my time researching and writing last year. The paper can be downloaded from http://www.acec2006.info

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ACEC 2006 Cairns Originally uploaded by LearningForward.Just back from a lovely few days at ACEC 2006 held this year in Cairns. I was lucky to go courtesy of Microsoft Australia who sponsored a group of "Innovative Teachers" from all round Australia. The conference is a biannual event and this was my first. Over 1300 delegates from all over Asia Pacific, USA and some from Europe. It was really

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Samantha with Parents and God ParentsSamantha's Baptism on 24 September at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Kensington. Godparents Peter and Rebecca O'Farrell and Catriona O'Sullivan. Celebrant Fr Peter Hearn. Attended by family and friends and afterwards for a lovely party at 80 Suttor St Alexandria on Septembers 4th hottest day on record 33 degrees.A great day! A great little girl!! Well done to

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Sam went to see Grandad Jim on Father's Day and gave him a coffee cup with a picture of herself so Jim always remembers what she looks like!! Jim liked the cup and the book too

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Fiona and I are still working through the many thankyou cards we have to send out to family and friends. We have been absolutely overwhelmed with flowers, cards, gifts, and calls from many many people. It is hard work but we are slowly getting through them all and have sent off the first batch of cards today.We have incuded our first family shot here. We set up a digital camera on a tripod and

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Unbelievable.........little Samantha is 5 weeks old today!!....we are all doing well.Mother and daughter are currently having their afternoon nap which allows Dad some time to catch up on house chores, do some cleaning, washing, grocery shop online etc etc.I will continue to post photos to our FlickR account online which shows little Sammy week by week and lets any family members print these

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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student visual literacy survey - Google Search

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Moorilla Winery Hobart 

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Travel to Hobart for the weekend. Take Fiona to combine some work and play. Attended ICT conference run by renowned American educator Jamie McKenzie at Moorilla winery just outside of Hobart........absolutely terrible place!!! We had a great time and learnt something too! Went to Salamanca markets on Sat morning before heading to Richmond for some history and more wineries along the way. A

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Met with Jacinta, Danny and John today. Am working on different projects. Am looking at video and sound with Multimedia for John. Writing your own webquest with Danny and getting organised and creating folders, email etc with Jacinta. The Middle School had their Athletics carnival yesterday and all staff are busy getting their programs and units of work for registration. Everyone is busy busy!!!

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I began this week working with the Year 5 and 6 teachers in the Middle School at St Augustine's College Brookvale. This week I met Matthew (Yr 6) and James (Yr5) and we sat down one on one to plan their individual program. We looked at the ease of hyperlinking in documents and some of the best educational sites on the internet. Both strike me as excellent teachers and are really keen to push

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Completed my first week as a K-6 ICT teacher working with Loreto College Junior School. I will be working 2 days a week over next 2 terms with each class integrating technology into the teaching programs. This is a great challenge as I come from 10 years secondary school experience background. The technology ideas will be easy, but adjusting to the students levels will be the most immediate

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The second day of the school holidays and my first day at University. I am studying towards a Masters in Educational Leadership. Today I started my fourth subject (the halfway point in my degree) - it is titled 'Leading Educational Change' and my lecturer is the well written and esteemed Professor Patrick Duignan. Today we focused on different paradigms of leadership and examined what is going

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Our honeymoon in Europe 2000 

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Mark and his gorgeous wife Fiona 

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Working from home today. Log on, check my mail, do some internet research on a few topics. Just reading the latest news of the Korean businessman who was beheaded this morning in Saudi Arabia. Can't help but think when will this all end. Terrible stuff!!

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