Tod Baker

father, husband, teacher
About Me

My name is Tod Baker. I like teaching (especially in international schools), photography, reading, writing, baseball, dogs, and playing for the trophy at my uncle Gary's annual croquet tournament. Here I post about these interests and some family news as well.

I am the IT Coordinator at International School of Tianjin. You can also find my thoughts about teaching and learning with technology at Watch Your Bobber, IT K5 and occasionally at U Tech Tips.

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Create the Future

I'm spending the weekend in Beijing at the Create the Future workshop. "This workshop is designed to open doors to new modes of teaching and learning and focus on the learner (teacher and student) as a communicator, collaborator and creator." While I'm arguing the value of globally collaborative projects Tati and Gabo have been at the Pearl Market shopping. So far, Tati has a new iPhone ($150) and Gabo a new PSP loaded with dozens of games ($50). We're heading home this afternoon.

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Posted 1 month ago

Andy Gets Inked

For every country he works in Andy gets a tattoo. Over the past 10 years tattoos for Vietnam, Mongolia, USA, and Guam have been inked into his skin. On Saturday China joined them with a long, serpentine dragon wrapping around Andy's left shoulder and blazing down his chest. Dragons in China, by the way, are benevolent. Whereas dragons in Western cultures tend to be feared. Andy's dragon is the kind of dragon that when it comes out of its cave and flies above the village all of the children raise their hands and cheer.

Last Saturday Andy let me tag along as he got inked in Beijing at Mummy Tattoo. I took 435 photos during his seven-hour session. Eventually, I'll edit them down to about 35 photos and publish them in a book. The photos here will most likely make the cut and find themselves on a page.

                                 
Click here to download:
Andy_Gets_Inked.zip (2598 KB)

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Posted 4 months ago

A Short Eviction Story

via rudenoon.com

Eminent domain and the fight for home, culture, community...it's a good read and the intentionally distorted face creates curiosity, makes me ask, "What's the story here?"

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Posted 6 months ago