The three things in life I love, travel, teaching and technology - all of them are a big part of my life and an integral part of why I do the things I do. Living and teaching in Beijing, China is starting to grow on me. After 7 years in Hong Kong, 3 years in Caracas, Venezuela, 6 years in Manila, Philippines and 2 years in Abijan, Cote d'Ivoire, I can officially say I love to be overseas and the life it offers.In order to get to know me from the start, I have traveled to the following places (I do not consider landing in a plane to change planes traveling); Egypt, skiiing in Switzerland & Italy, traveled extensively in the Philippines, games camps in Botswana, South Africa, Vietnam, spent three summers in Bangkok, Thailand completing my graduate degree, Mongolia, Russia (twice - once on the Trans-Siberian), sailed down the west coast of British Colombia, took a train across Australia and also Alaska, beach holiday in Bali, traveled to Dakar, Senegal for 4 days, boated (sp???) across Europe from Bucharest, Romania to Amsterdam, spent 3 days in Prague, Czech Republic and a few other small weekend trips to places in China and Asia.
Technology, including gadgets is another passion. Teaching High School Technology is really a great way to expand students learning, help teachers add in some Learning in the 21st Century skills and watch as the whole world of technology transforms both learning and teaching. I am not into forcing this carte blanche, but hope that with exemplars and assistance, I can convert more and more teachers to look deep into this in their teaching and see how to expand learning -afterall, that is what it is all about.
You can always contact me at my email and I try hard to respond in a timely fashion. Comments are always welcome as are conversations. Hopefully all this will really make a difference to our students learning and future generations.
Signing off today,
Harold Daw
