Category: module two

  • Context for video

    To respond to the content of this course, I have chosen a video. I am so delighted that there was an opportunity to respond to the content of this course in an artistic way. I have been so impressed with the style of teaching and learning in this course. I think it is a better…

  • Dear Helena,

    You are on the verge of woman-hood at a time when the world feels like it is at a cross-roads. I hate that the news shows you the face of racism, genocide, and the climate crisis. I cried inside when you cried over what the Fast Track Bill means for te taiao. It is hard.…

  • this is not my assignment

    I have written my assignment several times, and I always degenerate into a rant and a list of questions. So I am writing this so I can feel that it is written and I can focus on answering the brief! Please excuse the bad writing, I write to sound like myself, and I prefer Oratory…

  • now I get it

    Oh how, I have ranted over learning objectives with all my rebelious “I will learn what I want streak” and now here I am writing an assignment which has all the hallmarks of what I think forces good learning and I am lost, afloat… I hate that I would write to a detailed rubric just…

  • thoughts

    I have been listening to the RNZ podcast with my child. Even if she was not homeschooled, I feel it is my duty as a citizen to ensure she learns the history of the country she is part of. Just like we will be watching the RNZ Citizenship programme. In the video of the hahana kids…

  • module two

    I am so loving this, (Matike Mai, and that awsome speech) I am having excited, hopeful thoughts. I tried Maori and the state but the language goes over my head! Some of my ancestors left Scotland (from the border where the relationship between the Scotts and the English was fraught) to escape their colonisation, others…