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Qwiki's round up of news 9-12-11

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Roberta Gbowee

Leymah Roberta Gbowee has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. She is a Peace Activist in Liberia responsible for leading a women's peace movement that brought an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.

She began organizing Christian and Muslim women to demonstrate together, founding Liberian Mass Action for Peace and launching protests and a sex strike.

They staged protests that included the threat of a curse and a sex strike: "The [sex] strike lasted, on and off, for a few months. It had little or no practical effect, but it was extremely valuable in getting us media attention."In a highly risky move, the women finally occupied a field that had been used for soccer; it was beside Tubman Boulevard, the route Charles Taylor traveled twice a day, to and from Capitol Hill.To make themselves more recognizable as a group, all of the women wore T-shirts that were white, signifying peace, with the WIPNET logo and white hair ties.Taylor finally granted a hearing for the women on April 23, 2003. With more than 2,000 women massed outside his executive mansion, Gbowee was the person designated to make their case to him.Gbowee positioned her face to be seen by Taylor but directed her words to Grace Minor, the president of the senate and the only female government official present. [1]

She is a wonderfully gentle woman with a warm heart and a generous spirit.Her dry sense of humour was evident on Jon Stewart's Daily Show. She should be an inspiration to all of us...

Duffy Hero Assembly...anyone??

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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Useful Links:

[1] Wikipedia article: Leymah Roberta Gbowee
Wikipedia article : Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace
Leymah Roberta Gbowee website
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Qwiki news 10-11-11

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Qwiki's round up of news 29-10-11

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What INESS have recently been doing

Brett Lee says:

"This part of the year saw us travelling and speaking to audiences all across Australia and New Zealand. It was a privilege to pass our message onto thousands of primary, secondary and adult audiences. Mining towns throughout western Queensland, Brisbane Catholic Education PD, Melbourne Teen Expo, school communities in and around Queenstown New Zealand, Lutheran Pastors Conference, Queensland Secondary Schools Principals Conference and a Skype keynote to New Zealand where some of the interesting engagements I was given the opportunity to be involved with.

Everyday of the week, with every presentation, I learn more through the students and teachers. Being armed with this knowledge is a vital part of the process that we are involved in when it comes to bringing a relevant and up to date message to our audiences. Although we alone cannot change a person's internet based behaviours it is great to be an effective part of the overall process in teaching positive digital messages and giving users reasons for making sound online choices.

Having delivered thousands of presentations over the past years I have seen a definite change in the overall perception of communicating via the internet when it comes to our youth. I fully believe that teachers and parents are crucial in educating our youth in positive internet based skills and that YOU are making a difference.

Whilst presenting to a primary Brisbane Catholic School last term a year 4 student said to her teacher "someone asked me for my address on the computer the other day" to which the teacher replied "did you tell them". The student replied "no of course not, I'd never do that, mum said I shouldn't give my address to strangers on the internet". This is not knowledge the student is born with, it was taught to her. Most students of her age 3 years ago would have given out that information because they would have had no reason not to. We ARE making a difference."

Useful links:

Brett Lee's blog
Booking a cyber-safety workshop
Iness Brochure
CyberSafety for Schools
Cyber-Safety: What can you and your school do?
Other blog posts...

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Qwiki's round up of news 24-10-11

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A week in Review 30-9

Reading seems to be the main thrust of this week.
Top posts from this week:

Literature
Readit1st
The Great Gatsby Chapter 1
Stimulating interest in Literature through video
Publications for Teachers

Parenting
Top Tips for School Mornings

News
Qwiki's round up of news 30-9-11

Qwiki's round up of news 30-9-11

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A week in Review 23-9

Last week was dominated by other things I'm afraid and therefore there is little to report. There are have been principally five top top stories this week.

Qwiki's round up of news 23-9-11

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A week in Review 16-9

Looking back at the last 7 days there has been an interesting mix of popular posts. Here are the highlights:

Qwiki's round up of news 15-9-11

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Chch Airport and CRFU show their support

Its always nice to get a feel-good story come through now and again…

Some Christchurch schoolboys who worked hard to help repair their school’s broken goalposts have been rewarded with a training session with some of their Canterbury rugby heroes.

Another case of everyone sharing together. There have been some extraordinary measures taken over the last twelve months and its good to see students being offered ‘once-in-a-timetime’ opportunities as a reflection of their efforts for their school communities.

“This is a great way for the airport to give back to the community and support the team during a difficult year,” says Mr Lester. “It was a bonus to be able to invite the boys to meet their Canterbury rugby heroes and impress Tabai with their skills. Who knows, we may just have helped one of those boys into a Canterbury team of the future.”