Character alignments: a geek teacher's guide

I love Eric Molinsky's podcast Imaginary Worlds, a show about 'imaginary worlds: how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief'. It's a curious geek's guide to a deeper side of pop culture and well worth a listen if that sounds like your thing. I...

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GCSE Bitesize: A Mantra (but that's probably all)

Today once again, British 16 year-old's received their GCSE exam results. I remember that time in my life and now as a teacher I find myself reflecting on the value of it. With exam changes, increases in difficulty and always a controversy never far from the...

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What I'm watching

Some of the upcoming shows in Brussels that I will be going to see: The Common People Jan Martens -Grip September 15-16 desingel.beThe Common People' is a participatory project, installation and performance by choreographer Jan Martens and film director...

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Time Wise: the products of passion

In a previous post, Time Wise I described how a group of students here at ISB had set up their own youtube channel publishing short films. Well their passion has not faded and now they have created a short film which has shown they are still dedicated to...

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