June 11th, 12th and 13th at Rackspace, Uxbridge

For more details please click here to send me an email, or check the website to see the whole programme

The VITAL network have produced some ‘portals’ for various subjects and you folks can gain a 30 day free trial at http://www.vital.ac.uk/portals – do try them out and let VITAL know how to make them better.

They also have some excellent resources at http://www.schoolzone.co.uk/webguide/

• The ‘Independent-sponsored’ Peer Awards are to be held at Rackspace, Hendon on June 12-14th, 2012
• TESconnect Holborn, London, UK
  Sharing thousands of fantastic free teaching resources, talking about all things education and helping you to be the best teacher you can be
• Tapped in mainly an American-based (at present) linking and resources system similar to Linked in but specifically for Educational and Training folks
• Good to Great an interesting blog from stephanie dedhar
• Find a tutor – or a tutee from Tutor Hunt
• Learning Without Frontiers
• Helena (Abi) Foss writes with incredible wisdom about the female body
• Moodle Quick Links
• Now Finished: EpCopMOOC See: a community of practice around ePortfolio for VETs in Australia
• Now Finished: JISC E-Learning Conference 2011
• Now finished:MobiMOOC – free open on-line learning course about mobile technologies. However the discussions on the course wiki can be seen here

I am very grateful to the British Red Cross for their freely available booklet on this critical subject. Click here to read and access this and my own DSE equipment testing kit, both of which naturally are presented as Moodle course sections.

I hope that some of you will consider joining me in Portsmouth on 16th June for this excellent seminar:

Early attachment, the sexualisation of adolescence and the regression of early teenage years are all part of what it means to be a girl today. This talk puts special emphasis on the impact of external demands on internal conflicts and how this affects growing up female

Click here: to read a report of an earlier – male oriented – conference in this same annual ‘series’.

This new supplement from the TES will underpin the new ideas in computer science teaching. Are you fully joined into this new way forward? If not can we help you to understand and implement the new needs of schools and the DoE ?

I am ‘performing’ at Solent (Herbert Collins) on Tuesday lunchtime.

“schools in the most difficult areas have to act as surrogate parents to ensure that our most vulnerable children can achieve”. Speech given by Sir Michael Wilshaw, Director of Education, ARK Schools on moving to OFSTED

I am ‘performing’ at Highfield on Thursday evening.
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I am very grateful to Venkat Subramaniam who published this on Nov 27, 2011 in Home Business
Imagine two people looking to achieve the same goal: The “smart person” and the “doer”.

The doer makes plenty of mistakes but learns his lessons and gets on with it, while the “smart person” gets caught up in the paralysis of analysis. They think while the other acts. In reality, the key is to do something to see what will really happen, and when it does you can then add further solutions to take you to your goal. Many people get stuck in trying to work out problems in advance that they think will occur. The majority of the time, most of these imagined problems never come up.

The challenges that many times do arise, however, couldn’t have been predicted beforehand. Once you start taking steps you build momentum, and this momentum will propel you over the hurdles. When you are in action, new opportunities arise, new relationships are built and new resources come into view.

It is said that boldness carries with it a sort of magic, and this does seem true, but the magic here is the opportunities you create for yourself. Much of the time we only have the perspective to see one or two moves ahead, so the subsequent step does not become clear until that first or second move is taken. The quickest way to know whether you should go right or left is to pick a direction and go. Soon you will know if this is the right way – if it’s not you simply go another way! This action-oriented approach takes the paralysis out of the analysis!

While the problem-oriented thinker is still contemplating or debating, you may have made 10 wrong moves but are now 20 moves ahead. In the end you can either be a chooser or a debater. The debater tends to create a lot of excitement imagining but rarely has the desired result. Conversely, the chooser does things in the real world, and actually gains real experience and knowledge in becoming competent at bringing about real success. They also build a knowledge base that they can use in future experiences

So, You think you are smart and only been thinking for ever?? I know I was, you probably are too. Now get off the couch and go do something that you have been wanting to do it for a long time but haven’t done anything about. Trust me you will be surprised to find out what you are capable of !!

” Vision with out execution is hallucination ” – Thomas Jefferson

Have a great day !!