On Saturday 22 November 2008, along with about 1,000 other bloggers, I attended the Pesta Blogger 2008 in Jakarta. Aside from a few invited VIPs I didn’t see another foreign face, and, since most participants were a fraction of my age, I felt somewhat out of place. Nevertheless, I’m glad I went and I achieved [...]
Entries from November 2008
PESTA BLOGGER 2008
November 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
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PYP DUNIA – JOB ALIKE
November 18th, 2008 · No Comments
by Glyn Suherman
On Friday 14 November, seven teachers from Sekolah Bogor Raya and I visited Sekolah Pelita Harapan in Cikarang for a PYP Dunia-sponsored Job Alike workshop. This was my first experience at such an event and I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.
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DARING TO BE DIFFERENT
November 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The ANPS-BI annual Leadership Forum in Bali kicked off in style. The word of free drink and snacks spread across the Indonesian archipelago and teachers cut classes and hurried to Bali, just as fast as Garuda would permit them. In spite of Garuda’s efforts, about 75 dedicated educators gathered at the scrumptious Grand Mirage resort [...]
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LEARNING IN A DIGITAL WORLD
November 10th, 2008 · No Comments
by David Booth
I was one of two Sekolah Bogor Raya staff (Mr Gerald was the other) lucky enough to attend a conference called Learning in a Digital World which was held at Jakarta International School 7-9 November.
The conference was a good place to get ideas for enhancing digital learning at SBR, for finding out what [...]
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BLOGGING ABOUT EDUCATION IN INDONESIA
November 8th, 2008 · No Comments
The following post was submitted to the Jakarta Post for its November 9 supplement on education. Since it was not published by the Post, I take the liberty of including it here.
I’m going to stick my neck out and challenge you to google the names of prominent authors of articles in this education supplement. How [...]
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