If you're a regular reader, you may well have noticed this blog tapering into comparative silence for a while.  As can happen.  I took o...

A heads-up to share with your students.  What is it? Free Comic Book Day is a single day - the first Saturday in May each year - when pa...

Back around the time Prince William married Kate Middleton, the Guardian newspaper published a article containing new poems - they said for...

Now if someone can just tell me where term 3 went.... Stuff did happen (oh my goodness yes) but not so much on Skerricks.  For assorted re...

There are some computer problems in the world that includes writing Skerricks.  Term has resumed, the pace is as busy as ever at school and ...

Sad though it is to have two major Australian bricks'n'mortar bookshop chains closing (Angus & Robertson and Borders), I noted t...

In preparation for this afternoon (last day of term 2), I put this list together: Wiggle and swim Robot Line up - wavy arms Walk Sidew...

I'm researching Romeo & Juliet trailers and video bits for a lesson (will share 'em later - found some Amazing Stuff!) and trip...

The scene: a school library.  Busyish lunchtime over, a few students in the library on study periods etc. Polite young Year 7 boy clutchin...

Today's book is a book (which I can also share with you via a video) about books. Books remain wonderful bits of technology.  The day...

Today's Quirky Book is deceptively simple.  You will probably say, I could have thought of that .  But you didn't.  Nor (dangit!) di...

After yesterday's sweet little girl, today you can meet Cherise: A sweet wee thing.  Well, kinda.  I was going to do a blog entry abou...

Another Quirky Book for your delectation! Meet Constance, and her adorably sweet cat, Tiny: Absolute angels, they are.  Take a look insi...

Terrific article in today's Sydney Morning Herald, from Leon Wright who teaches in western Sydney.  My favourite paragraph from "W...

Welcome to Quirky Book Week on Skerricks! Five books that are just great fun - the kids like 'em, and I like 'em, and they make th...

So last Friday I spent all day at the library in the downstairs seminar room (glass walls, next to the computer area) with a group of teache...

How cool is this? Every balloon is a different newspaper, the languages indicated by colour.  You can use the hand icon to move around the...

Many moons ago, I learned some Auslan - Australian Sign Language, as used by the deaf community.  As you may know, this is not the same as t...

Photo used under Creative Commons license.  LINK  Jane Elliott, a teacher, first tried her blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise with her class in ...

You don't believe me that there is a Periodic Table of Storytelling?  Behold! I know, it's hard to read detail.  But it's wort...