habits & Habitats
An ethnography of learning entanglement
This visual time line is the informal third element of my PhD dissertation. ;xNLx;;xNLx;It is a window into a vibrant and ever evolving learning environment.;xNLx;;xNLx;Each day that I was on site is marked by a 'story.' ;xNLx;;xNLx;Some stories contain excerpts from my fieldnotes or photographs taken by me, and each is tagged with a theme. A number contain videos created and posted online by others between 2011 and 2014.;xNLx;;xNLx;You can navigate in either 2D or 3D and the stories can be sorted by category.
2012-04-24 14:26:30
Start of Term 2
Launching the 'Tomorrow's School Today' project, a video from the 2011 launch of the Zone.
2012-04-30 17:57:58
Term 1: Desert Island
You have crashlanded on a desert island. There are no teachers.....
2012-05-01 02:13:19
Locating learning activity in the Zone
2012-05-02 06:34:58
Subtext
The language of active learning in the Zone
2012-05-03 06:34:58
Communicating in the open
What messages are communicated through one's physical location?
2012-05-04 06:34:58
What makes this space different?
Initial thoughts
2012-05-07 06:34:58
DEAR TIME
Drop Everything And Read - the first 15 minutes of every day.
2012-05-08 14:26:30
Term 2 Immersion Day
A visit from the CSIRO to get the students thinking about their Passion Projects on sustainability for the term.
2012-05-10 06:34:58
Older students reflections
On the learning Matrix.
2012-05-11 06:34:58
Crowd control
And silence in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
2012-05-14 10:56:28
'It's a picture book.'
If you can't see...
2012-05-17 10:56:01
Looking across the upper section
2012-05-18 10:56:01
Looking across the lower section
2012-05-21 10:56:01
I'm already making lists
2012-05-24 10:56:01
Rwanda open summit
Sharing and creating stories of change.
2012-05-25 10:56:01
In search of power
When one forgets to charge one's computer overnight.
2012-05-28 10:56:01
Help with the formation of groups
Not everyone likes working in groups
2012-05-31 18:22:23
Vignette 1
What does active listening look like?
2012-06-04 10:56:01
Independent but together
Finding a space to get on with one's work, upstairs on the carpet.
2012-06-06 10:56:01
Virtual Worlds @ NBCS
Second life gives way to Minecraft
2012-06-07 10:56:01
Comfort
A comfortable place to work in the open.
2012-06-08 10:56:01
Visitors in the Zone
Over 700 people visited the Zone during 2012.
2012-06-11 04:36:58
Solitude
A place of one's own.
2012-06-14 22:47:27
Taking responsibility for one's tools
2012-06-15 19:09:12
Channel 9 news report - 2011
An educational experiment? NBCS's first experience of hosting the media in the Zone.
2012-06-18 19:09:12
Channel 10 news report - 2014
A second look at the Zone through the eyes of the media.
2012-06-21 19:09:12
Go and show that to ....
The Principal, the year fours or Mr X the year seven science teacher.
2012-06-22 14:26:30
End of Term 2
2012-06-22 18:22:23
Vignette 2
Because this is what we do in the Zone
2012-07-17 12:06:21
Start of Term 3
2012-07-18 18:22:23
Vignette 3 (Immersion day Term 3)
The blue-eyed vs. brown-eyed experiment.
2012-07-19 11:50:39
Open education
A high school students response to David Price OBE's Open.
2012-07-20 14:26:30
Thinking about our space
This image was taken after the annual rotation and it illustrates a moment in which Ms Talbot and her class think about how they would like to use their new home base.
2012-07-23 11:50:39
words in space
Persistence and mobility of the spoken word.
2012-07-26 11:50:39
Handwriting in a digital classroom
A conversation between a student and a teacher who was doing the rounds while the students practiced their handwriting.
2012-07-27 14:26:30
Passion Project Fair
Six months work on a personal passion project presented to the school community.
2012-07-30 09:39:22
Matrix
Physical of the digital
2012-07-31 09:39:22
Steps as a destination
So many birds on a wire
2012-08-03 09:39:22
The SCIL Building
The first of the new buildings @ NBCS.
2012-08-06 18:22:23
Vignette 4
A lesson in 24Hour time
2012-08-09 05:16:40
Business 4 Missions
The students start a six month small business simulation, the aim of which is to produce something to sell at the end of year Christmas market.
2012-08-15 09:39:22
Where's Mr Hughes?
2012-08-16 05:16:40
Choices about space
Comment from a teacher to a student doing an assessment
2012-08-17 11:06:20
Catching up before starting
Touching base before getting on with work.
2012-08-20 11:06:20
Multi-purpose
Storage on wheels with a built in whiteboard back.
2012-08-23 05:16:40
Showcase night
Everybody can learn to dance!
2012-08-24 18:22:23
Vignette 5
In the future I have a moustache and I"m graduated!
2012-08-27 00:40:16
One day in one minute
A living learning space.
2012-08-30 20:04:07
Who thinks they can spell fuch-sia?
A spelling test with a difference
2012-08-31 00:40:16
Robotics
Music and media space becomes a robotics lab.