Posted in Uncategorized on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I like the ideas explored in “The Reflective Practitioner” that reflection is like a conversation with the situation. Nothing fully fleshed out yet but notes for the future:
What is the problem and how have I framed it?
Can I solve the problem I have set?
Do I like what I get when I solve this problem?
In solving [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I didn’t get round to empathy yesterday. The part I find tough is the listening. When I pause shut up and really listen life is far easier.
It is very easy for me to hear every conversation as either a request for action or a criticisim or both. My mind races and I am into full [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m getting fed up with the same articles being rehashed about how to filter the noise out of your social networks
Perhaps I’m missing something. Everyone uses these networks in different ways but I’ve thought hard and I don’t understand the appeal of building the biggest network possible as quickly as I can. People matter too [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have just finished reading Carl Rodgers on becoming a person and the articles that struck home for me were personal thoughts on teaching and learning.
The core conditions he picks out just feel right. Simple enough to remember and the reasoning makes sense. They also feel like a physical core. If you take the words [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has been a long time since I’ve written anything here.
Reviewing my old post its clear that starting this blog I had no clear idea what I wanted to write or how to write it. I still don’t. But at least now looking at it with a bit more perspective I have a better idea [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What a lot of great articles there were yesterday – I’ve had a fun time just reading through a fraction of the contributions for Blog Action Day.
Ian McKenzie (Ian’s Messy Desk) offered a nice straightforward list of practical suggestions Blog Action Day: How To Eliminate Poverty as did Ibrahim over at Zen College [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to write something deep and worthy today – but reading through all the facts and figures I was caught by one amazing statistic.
According to the poverty facts and stats over at global issues 11 billion US dollars or roughly 6.3 billion ponds a year is spent on ice cream in Europe.
A large percentage [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First thing is to put my thoughts into some sort of order. For the past few months I’ve been using google reader to squirrel away articles that I though might be helpful. Looking through them there are several different things I want to change and so I can sort them into approximate piles:
Workspace – building [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Its been a great 24 hours – even the failure of my connecting bus service to connect, leaving me stranded in Glenrothis on a Sunday for an hour can’t dampen my mood.
For what its worth 15 years is possibly a little long between spending an evening drinking with friends watching dumb movies and eating crisps. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m writing this sitting on a bus heading towards St Andrews, a lot of memories and some very good friends who have made it very clear that I need to stop and unwind and take a breather.
The last 6 months has been long and complicated with a lot of work and personal crisis. However there [...]
