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I met with the delightful staff at Aranmore Catholic Primary today for the second of their Shoebox workshops and was delighted to see how much they had remembered and how keen they were to apply their new knowledge in class. Tomorrow, I'm meeting with some app developers in Subiaco to talk through my ideas for the first of the Shoebox apps (oh, there are going to be a whole family of them for both primary and ESL students)
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I had the great pleasure today to meet with Roger Plumb, one of the advisors at the Innovation Centre in Technology Park, Bentley. Roger has been appointed to provide advice and guidance for the development of the Shoebox family of educational apps, something I have been dreaming of for a long time but didn't know the way forward. After discussions with my accountant and several patent lawyers, I found my way to the Innovation Centre and Roger.
We now have several meetings to plot a way forward, including details of marketing, financing, building the apps and taking them out to the educational community. An exciting journey. Some time ago, Nicki Blake, my Director of Studies at Kaplan Perth, invited me to speak at the first joint PD conference for WA ESL teachers. While these events have been going on for some years in Brisbane and other eastern seaboard capitals, this was the first such event for Perth schools, and quite a few schools gathered to learn and share their experiences: Lexis, Curtin, Kaplan, ACAE, Navitas, PICE, CELT and others.
I only had 20 minutes, which was far too short to go into detail, but it was a tremendous opportunity to share my passion for the language and some basic Shoebox principles. After it finished, I got into conversation with a teacher who said that the market in South Korea for ESL is enormous, particularly for apps, so perhaps I should start work on the Shoebox app I have been dreaming of for some time. I also had the chance to catch up with some dear friends, including Luisa Maestri from ACAE, where I spent many happy years. |
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