The beauty of what we cannot see

You must take a look at this hugely magnified image of a moth antennae and more:

Spirit and Soul

Founded by a 13 year old, this enterprising young woman has set up this website 'Body & Soul' , including a series of daily inspirational videos featuring well known NZ women starting 1 June. Worth watching if you are a young woman. Find out more via her YouTube channel, Facebook and Instagram.

Struggling is so important

Not knowing something and struggling to work things out is so important to your brain and learning. The most successful people are those who struggle. Check this out:

Big Life Journal

Big Life Journal

Read this to change your life for the better:

Easily learn calligraphy using AR

In three steps with a mobile device, you can use augmented reality to guide your calligraphic pen to make several interesting designs. First, print the marker so that your phone has a virtual connection to the paper. Secondly, load the web page on the mobile device and hold it over the marker and your drawing paper. The image will appear and you can then ‘trace’ the a.r. image that appears. You might want to devise some sort of holder for the device so things don’t shift around too much.

If the Moon were only 1 pixel

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel

You really need to do this because we have a far too big a sense of being.  Make sure you use the > or < at the top of the black screen or you might go mad.

Orangutan asks girl for help in sign language

Control your paper plane with your phone

Need to write a CV?

 Create a login on Careers NZ or try Resume

Have your say

Would you please take part in this survey so that as many young people as possible can be heard.  It is a youth led survey that feeds into a report to the United Nations about the rights of children and youth.

How long will you live?

How long will you live?

How big is our universe?

A check of your online content

 Use Simple Wash to scrape through your Facebook and Twitter accounts. It will tag your content as it's compared with a list of objectionable vocabulary.  It offers a chance for you to see your online presence from another point of view - and it gives you an opportunity to tidy things up before applying for that new job.                                                        

Walled World

Pole to Paris by walking and cycling

PoletoParis

So you haven't learnt it yet?

Do watch this TED talk

Field of Remembrance

As we don't have a field to put these symbolic crosses of soldiers who died in WW1, we have decided on a 'Window of Remembrance' to silently remember their sacrifice.  Hopefully passers-by will also remember.  The Online Cenotaph might help you to find out about some of the names on the crosses or about a family member.

Google Earth Pro now free

Google Earth Pro

is now free. Download it but make sure you note the information about the key on the right. It has map-making tools for example. Was once $400.

Tips for presenting speeches

sparkol.com

Ideas for your journal writing

Story starters