Clear, cull, clean! Do it!

I realised last week that we are in a good position now to move everything forward. Step into the future with confidence. If we don’t clean up around ourselves, though, we are going to be choking in dust and dirt and tripping over the rubbish as we make our first, certain steps into the new era. Nothing confident or dignified about that. So, now’s our chance. We can continue to cling on to the past or we can clear the clutter and enjoy a future which will be lighter and brighter and cleaner and greener. We need to take action now and commit to reclaiming our spaces. Technology is giving us a great opportunity to live in clean, spacious areas so let’s do it. This term I am committing myself to #cleanandgreen. This week all my blog posts will be about reclaiming my spaces. So I have some questions:

Do you need all those old videos?
Do you need that old dinosaur computer with the CRT monitor and its radiation emissions?
Do you need all that paperwork from 1997?
Do you needs all those leads and peripherals ?
Do you need those text books from 1987?

Clean it up! Last week I got my faculty involved for a lesson in clearing up our office. We binned, recycled, reclaimed. We found some neglected, great treasures which we could put to work in our lessons and even had thoughts as we went along as to how we might convert them to digital versions. I was dusting and wiping reclaimed containers and surfaces. It was horrible , black dust and my hands were filthy. We are breathing that in…or we were. Everyone is really pleased and delighted with the difference we have made. That is motivating. So I am doing it again tomorrow. Monday is #cleanandgreen day.