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my pdf isnt working at the moment, but i'll spend more time another day and bring it wednesday to check it out...

Hoppy's seen better days

Well here it is Ben, the cane toad I was talking about in playgroup today. its only a small one, they apparently can get much larger than this one. He's seen better days though - he came off the woodbase he was on when i picked him up outta the box and he's soooo dusty. i think i'll name him hoppy. go hoppy be free, free of your cardboard prison.

problem solving

as part of a mobile playgroup kit, could we take qualities form different problem solving techniques, and mould all the best ones into a technique that we use and write down as our own technique or theory. It would be similar to creating corporation games, but we would already know the best ways of solving problems - or at least the ones which work for us.
i think the more sessions we have the more we will know which ones work for us.
just a thought

actor network theory

heres a bit from wikipedia on what the actor network theory is about. from what i can understand its a bit like role playing int he problem, where every item (person and object) is played by a problem solver, and they argue solutions form that perspective.

Just turned on word verification

Hope no one minds just turned on word verification after our first dose of spam. I like the poster you made for playgroup at the exhibition. I have only heard a little about this Walton group but I am up for anything. Apparently playgroup is going to run an activity or something for the first year camp. That sound really great, I am looking forward to next year.

Some links to creativity tools etc...

thought that people might like to have alook at some of these, alright check out these links for some creativity tools and techniques.
http://www.mycoted.com/creativity/techniques/index.php
http://www.jcu.edu.au/studying/services/studyskills/mindmap/howto.html
http://www.makemark.com/graphic_facilitation/services/
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS_01.htm

I think that the first link has several that we could possibly use in playgroup, i will spend sometime pulling some techniques out that we could use, but browse through and see what you can find.

Ummm haley where did the links on the side u added go ?

Slates, Chisels & hammers

Well i just though i would add some stuff to this young blog. I really enjoyed playgroup today and i really like the idea of this mobile toolkit for playgroup so that we can get out and about, yet another thing that need to be thought about, oh the possibilites - i still think we should all start using slate and chisels and very large hammers - although possibly not very portable. Anyway...i was thinking during my long bus trip of stuff for herpes oops i mean hermes thing which is a merging of the old cliche paris with the real paris, real being the spit and traffic etc etc , not really developed yet just a thought, will post later and try and expand ideas on it when it comes to me. and I realised that there was something i fogot to add to the list today - smoke & smokers - when i visited paris there were smokers every where, it was especially evident in resturants ugh i hate smoke when i am eating - i really hated it - i spose that is another cliche though cause when i think of paris i think of a frog in a hat thing and a stripy shirt smoking one of those long thin cigarettes. well enough of my ramblings.

Welcome to the play group blog

Yay our own little blog hopefully this can make communication of ideas much easier, and makes Kate’s blog a little less like a notice board. I am glad that more people are turning up to playgroup and that whole idea of a travelling white board would be interesting, letting the playgroup become mobile. Hopefully this blog means that we can all continue to have playgroup no matter where we are. The Hermes window display project sounds quite exciting with all these ideas, everyone should keep on going and bring in sketches and ideas for next week. Hope you like the fishy photo.