nabuur

NABUUR makes it easy to make a difference

Nabuur.com is an online volunteering platform that links Neighbors (online volunteers) with Villages (local communities) in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Connected through Nabuur.com, Neighbors and local communities learn about each other, share ideas and find solutions to local issues.

Everybody has something to offer, and everything is done online.

Do you have a little spare time and the desire to make a difference?

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

Sir Ken Robinson is author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a leading expert on innovation and human resources. In this talk, he makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 20:02)

mediasnackers podcast

First Lady / Mars Venus article

The Obamas met with President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush last week at the White House. While the President and President-elect talked privately in the Oval Office, Laura gave Michelle a tour of the First Family’s living quarters and discussed family life and the help that is provided by the executive staff.

Let’s suspend reality for a moment – when and if a woman is elected President, do you suppose that her husband will receive the same instructions and introduction that Michelle Obama is receiving? Or would it be silly to imagine that a man would be given the details about the running of the house – whether it’s the White House or otherwise?

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5 Dangerous Things For Kids

http://www.tinkeringschool.com/blog/page/2/

A software engineer, Gever Tulley is the co-founder of the Tinkering School, a weeklong camp where lucky kids get to play with their very own power tools. He's interested in helping kids learn how to build, solve problems, use new materials and hack old ones for new purposes. He's also a certified paragliding instructor.

www.etsy.com

this pledge is taken from a lovely market place for all handmade stuff

moomin / Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson / 1914 – 2001
was a Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author.
She was the author of, among other works, the Moomin books.

The Moomin books combine thoughtful and touching stories with beautiful illustrations.

Aside from Jansson’s own books, there have been “licensed” books based on the Japanese animated television show, but Jansson’s own books are the real thing.



amazon

wikipedia



moomin's site (games crafts etc..)

moomin's shop



the Hobbit's drawings by Tove Jansson

Le Corbusier

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

numbers

this is a nice car game: everyone count the numbers they manage to find outside the window. here's a 1, there's 2, and so on...

and here is another version: each player has to find 10 good things that happened to him today, in turns. everyone feel much better after this one...[ dont give up after the 5, keep on till you reach the 10th...]

Buddha quotes / mom's first aid kit

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”



“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”



“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear”



“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”



“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”



“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”



“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”



“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”



“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”



“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

My kids abc daily life

fire by Nir Tobeer

APPLES ~ ANIMALS ~ ARCHERY ~ BEATLES ~ BOOKS ~ BAGS ~ BIRTHDAY ~ BLOGS ~ CATS ~ CAMERA ~ CRAFT ~ CHOCOLATE ~ COOKING ~ COMICS ~ CARS ~ DOGS ~ DOLLS ~ E-MAILS ~ EXPERIMENTS ~ FILMS ~ FLOWERS ~ FIREPLACE ~ GOOGLE ~ GARDEN ~ GUESTS ~ HEART ~ I PHOTO ~ JOKES ~ KNIGHTS ~ KAPLA ~ LEGO ~ LAPTOP ~ MERMAIDS ~ MARBLES ~ MUSIC ~ MAGAZINES ~ UMBERS ~ NOTEBOOKS ~ ONLINE GAMES ~ PACKAGE ~ POST ~ PLAY ~ PINK PANTHER ~ PINK ~ PAINTING ~ PIANO ~ QUOTES ~ ROBOTS ~ ROLLER ~ RECYCLE ~ SKATEBOARD ~ SEA ~ STAMPS ~ SUPERHEROS ~ SPACE ~ TEA ~ TRIPS ~ UNICORN ~ VIRTUAL CITY ~ VIOLIN ~ WIKIPEDIA ~ X/O ~ YES WE CAN ~ YOGA ~ ZOO

John Holt quotes / nina's drawings

• Education... now seems to me perhaps the most authoritarian and dangerous of all the social inventions of mankind. It is the deepest foundation of the modern slave state, in which most people feel themselves to be nothing but producers, consumers, spectators, and fans, driven more and more, in all parts of their lives, by greed, envy, and fear. My concern is not to improve 'education' but to do away with it, to end the ugly and antihuman business of people-shaping and to allow and help people to shape themselves.

• It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life.

• The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.

• No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors

• The anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know.

• The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do

• All I am saying in this book can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.

wikipedia

motherearthnews.com/-Interview-John-Holt

Magnificent Tree houses

www.baumraum.de

inspirational color page

just copy the jpg below to your computer, print and enjoy!