It’s ten past midnight. The back room looks out onto the garden, but the light from the kitchen reflects off the French doors, obscuring everything but the plate metal spider hanging in its ring of wood. Guarding the yard.This room has been returned to a functional state. Not least because the of the newly laid laminated flooring or the large white desk, but the weather is no longer so cold as to make the space unbearable.I’ve been reading ‘Spook Country’ by William Gibson and dwelling on the ‘Gargoyle’ character as described by Neil Stevenson in his book Snow Crash: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash?ac=1I’ve fantasised often about getting a hold on a pair of interactive goggles, preferably ‘Glass’ by Google. I can see myself using these, along with a portable keyboard and other useful peripherals, to teach more effectively: Front Ending or Flipping my classroom by recording lessons and editing them down to useful instructionals would be useful for all kinds of students and it would be great to be able to do things like navigate, amplify and manipulate the digital environment on the interactive whiteboard without having to look away from the class or be tied to the board or computer. 
I also like the idea of using this technology to leave digital structures or ‘invisible graffiti’ around the traps. Tying two dimensional, three dimensional and interactive (scripted) constructs to the real world environment as described in 'Spook Country'. I think it would be lots of fun.Here is a drawing I did on Friday when at a Deputy Principals’ conference:

 Untitled[Ballpoint pen on paper - A5]( a little annoyed that my scanner can't pick up the detail )
One of the things that came of the day was a reminder that many of the people in the upper executive in NSW Department of Education and Communities are significantly older than myself, putting many of them at or near retirement age. There is definitely an interesting and turbulent time ahead in the teaching profession as this group of people with their wealth of experience and corporate knowledge move out of the field and a significantly younger, much less experienced group take their place. On the plus side, the enthusiasm of youth and the new ideas will be a great boost, however, with the changes to funding models, increases in principal discretion, more stringent prerequisites for undertaking educational studies, new syllabuses, growing technological demands and generally rising levels of teacher scrutiny and accountability I currently feel like the profession is under siege.Maybe I’m just tired.