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Oh, and another one: The fres

2008-07-25T17:50:59.137+02:00

Oh, and another one: The fresh produce you think of as being everyday fare is on a stand labelled 'exotic fruit & veg'.

Having lived in the UK as a So

2008-07-25T17:16:30.244+02:00

Having lived in the UK as a South African ex-pat for 9 years, I would add: You feel like a foreigner every day... then you go 'home' on a holiday and still feel like a foreigner You're amazed at the narrow world view of your friends and family 'back home' Your family starts to look to you to bail them out of their financial difficulties because you earn £s and are therefore rich You will drive to a shop that's more than half an hour away, even though you don't need anything, just to be surrounded by people who sound like you You find yourself saying "When we" far too often

@JasonN How about looking at e

2008-07-08T16:12:18.582+02:00

@JasonN How about looking at each role separately and creating a route through the material looking at it from each role's perspective? Alternatively, how about creating a space for user generated content, where the users themselves can share how the changes have impacted on their roles?

You <a href="http://karynro

2008-07-08T15:15:31.490+02:00

You <a href="http://karynromeis.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-do-you-want-them-to-do.html>read my mind!

@christy I'm fairly certain th

2008-06-26T12:46:00.955+02:00

@christy I'm fairly certain that you know more about me than I know about you! I am aware that I blog about my life more than most, and I often wonder: Should I change that? Should I defend that? I've always been a very wysiwyg person - heart on sleeve, thought-in-head = word-on-lips. But to answer your other question, I definitely know more about the bloggers I meet on FB, but only those who interact there. Not everyone does. @rina Been there done that on the mother-in-law thing, only mine never lived with us, so you have my sympathy! However, I now have a very good relationship with her, so there is hope. Assertiveness without aggression - that's the way forward.

@vicki What a wonderful idea.

2008-06-26T10:13:41.304+02:00

@vicki What a wonderful idea. I would be mortified to discover that you had been here without meeting up with me! I will message you my email address on Facebook, so that we can keep in touch and make arrangements. @rina As far as I have been able to tell, daughters in law and mothers in law are often at loggerheads. The mother dotes on her son and considers no woman good enough for him. The son tries to be a dutiful son to his mother, while still being a good husband to his wife. He will avoid taking sides as long as possible and may even feel resentful that he is being pressured into doing so. The wife is afraid to stand up to the mother in law in the beginning because she fears that her husband will side with his mother and she knows she couldn't cope with taking them both on. I was in much the same boat in the early years of my marriage, but fortunately my mother in law didn't live with us. Today I have a pretty good relationship with my her, but it took a major confrontation and it required my husband to realise what was going on and deal with it once and for all. He made it clear that his allegiance was to me (in line with the passage in the Bible that says "a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife"). Also, she was prepared to acknowledge her part in the conflict, which takes a lot of courage. She apologised to me and asked my forgiveness. That took courage and I had to respect her for that! It wasn't easy, but, take heart, it can be done!

@Rina Hope you recover your bo

2008-06-25T13:06:30.217+02:00

@Rina Hope you recover your bounce soon. Don't be so sure that I've got your measure from what I've read of you - although I would like to think that I'm on the right track! In my mind's eye, you are a bubbly chatterbox who uses her hands a lot. I imagine that you can jump from topic to topic without pausing. I would expect you to change the subject of conversation often, without even noticing that you're doing it. You might even interrupt an answer to one question in order to ask another on a totally different topic. Would that be accurate, or have I missed it completely?

I think we're looking at the s

2008-06-13T16:31:51.674+02:00

I think we're looking at the same coin from different angles. See my post today

Congrats, Jeff. I hope it turn

2008-06-03T12:15:14.300+02:00

Congrats, Jeff. I hope it turns out to be what you're looking for and that you don't have withdrawal symptoms from the loss of direct contact with students. Since I started my current job 3 years ago, I have found the loss of that contact very difficult to deal with! I have a question to ask of you... I am submitting my MA dissertation in the form of a wiki. It addresses the subject of the use of social media in professional practice, so it seems appropriate to me to submit it using social software. However, I can't seem to secure a space without adverts. I don't think it's appropriate for a piece of academic writing to be splattered with ads. However, since I don't work in the K-12 sector, I don't qualify for a free ad-free space, even though this constitutes part of my formal education. Is there any way that Wetpaint would see this as falling under the umbrella of education and allow me an ad-free space without charging?

Thanks so much for this contri

2008-05-22T11:31:08.462+02:00

Thanks so much for this contribution, Dave. It's like watching one of those fractal screen savers to see the posts, sparking off other posts, and so on. And each post forms the spark for a conversation in the comments that follow. It's so exciting. Good grief. It's official. I.AM.A.GEEK.

I sympathise on the failure th

2008-05-21T10:15:01.337+02:00

I sympathise on the failure thing. Check out my post on the subject. I reckon this is a good topic, but potentially broad. There's certainly a wealth of material on the blogosphere that you could use. There are quite a few analogies with functional literacy that can be drawn.

LOVE the cartoon, it says so m

2008-05-21T10:06:31.078+02:00

LOVE the cartoon, it says so much!

Thanks for this, Cathy - I nee

2008-02-29T10:08:25.376+01:00

Thanks for this, Cathy - I needed a laugh today, and this gave me one while allowing me to feel virtuous about the fact that it was work-related!

I'd love an interview like thi

2008-01-04T10:45:00.496+01:00

I'd love an interview like this, and I'm not even a teacher. Sadly, I know for a fact that most of the people who teach my sons would look utterly blank in repsonse to most of these questions.

I have always used humour to g

2007-09-28T10:35:45.517+02:00

I have always used humour to good effect in the classroom, but humour in online learning is a hard sell. We recently put forward a proposal to a client to use cartoons in an online learning solution we were designing. They rejected it out of hand, because they wanted the concept taken seriously. The odd thing was, we weren't even planning to make the cartoons funny - just explanatory! In another solution, one of my colleagues used a comic strip approach to cover information security, to brilliant effect. It is by far my favourite of all the materials we have ever produced. I like the idea of suggesting a specific humorous approach, rather than just saying "let's be funny". I think it's important to find a way to give the learner a mental hook to hang the new information on, and images and humour have a way of providing that. Love the tabloid, by the way!

Rats - I was going to tag you.

2007-08-01T23:30:58.173+02:00

Rats - I was going to tag you. Ah well...

I like your Dad's idea for usi

2007-06-18T18:09:06.531+02:00

I like your Dad's idea for using a Wii for therapy purposes. I have a niece with poor muscle tone. She doesn't have cerebral palsy, but she was tested for it as a child because she passed her milestones so late - only sitting at 10 months. To add to the problem, she is also deaf. My mind is fizzing with ideas for therapeutic Wii games that she could learn by observation and which are not dependent upon spoken communication to master or complete. The problem with so many standard occupational therapy programmes is that the child usually needs a fair level of communicative skill in order to be able to comply with the therapist's instructions.

How exciting and terrifying al

2007-05-30T14:47:47.384+02:00

How exciting and terrifying all at the same time, James. I hope it turns out really well for you and that you never look back. Well done on having the courage to cut loose and step out.