Another Thing I've Learned About...
...is Pecha Kucha . A kind of PowerPoint haiku form. And Jing , which I like the look of for both teaching and having a laugh. And DimDim .
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When the going gets weird...
...the weird, of course, turn pro . Which is what I've done. It's not so bad. I'm doing one-to-one teaching with a wind energy man, and I've learned quite a lot about that industry. And I'm designing a course for 60 Chinese aeronautical graduates, which is going to feature quite a lot of TBL . Which is harder work than doing it from a book (we'll be doing that as well), but much more engaging. And my mate Charlie has pointed me in the direction of wetpaint as a place to create a wiki , to use as an ad hoc VLE . So, you can see, I'm on a decent learning curve here. I have been wondering if I would have been better keeping my mouth shut and getting on with another term at McEnglish in Glasgow - at least I would have been coming back to my own home each night. But I would have been learning almost nothing, beyond the theory and practice of kissing arse and keeping shtum. Fuck it - it's better as it is. I'm going to christen this workplace as B...
With TEFL, you'll never put the weirdness behind you
I accepted a job with an English company for a job in Libya, which fell through. So they offered me work in their school in the East Midlands, and put me up in a guesthouse, and I thought wtf, a man's got to work. Just beginning to start week two of it and I'm not so sure. The big cheese seemed ok at the interview but now she seems to burst out of frequent meetings only to dash around the building, pointing at people, asking rhetorical questions, misunderstanding anything you might be foolish enough to utter, making tactless asides, and leaving only demoralization and puzzlement in her wake. It's as if she's got a big Mad Ideas Box in her office and she gets several out in a day and has to act on all of them immediately: in the most uninspiring and unconvincing ways, too. She reminds me of the bastard who owned Scabby College, a kind of Dotheboys Hall for middle class foreigners where Herself and I somehow managed to last a whole year. The big cheese owner of the s...
No, really...
Herself , originally uploaded by Pig Sty Avenue . ...I'm going to put the Leica in a drawer for a few months and just concentrate on the Sporti with HP5. One camera with one shutter speed (and two apertures) and one type of film. It'll be a right laugh.
Later...
Really busy with the Mod5 and new job. More when I have time to breath. By the bye, I reckon I might be going to binge on the Sporti with HP5 when time permits. That is all.
Reach Out!
Reach Out! , originally uploaded by Kenny Maths . Normal Service Will Be Resumed When I Finish The Module 5 Assignment!
