Archive for the 'Magazines' Category
Amazing Thrilling Wonder Stories
I may have mentioned over on the book review blog that I’ve been reading an old science fiction anthology (the Chatham River Press Omnibus of Science Fiction, edited by Groff Conklin, first published 1952, reprinted around 1980). Nothing new in that, you might think, and you’d be right, because it’s the kind of fodder that [...]
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Parsed
200-year-old joke:
“My wife’s given up transporting slaves.”
“Jamaica?”
“No, she realised it was wrong.”
As part of your teacher qualification, you have to take the QTS Skills tests in Maths, English, and ICT. The latter two, I’m reliably informed, are a bit of a joke. The maths, however, I was a bit worried about, it having been 1979 [...]
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Death by Keynote
desktop-publishing.pdf
Many people arrive at this blog looking for lesson plans. There are many web sites which allow lesson plans and resources to be shared. A hangover from my commercial days makes me reluctant to do this. The reality of league tables and OfSTED inspections means that most schools are in competition with each other for [...]
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Those who can’t…
…teach.
We’re rolling up the popular music module now, as time accelerates towards the end of the school year. It’s interesting to note how the students seem to be finding the work easier as we go on. That’s not because the work is easier, naturally, but because they actually have been learning stuff. From me! I [...]
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Lyrical
One of the conceits of my unpublished novel is that one of the main characters is a professional musician. I have begun each chapter with an epigrammatical snippet from some of his songs. Most of the time, I just dragged a line in from a song I had actually written. I see these lines now [...]
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Magazines are Rubbished
Had to drive to Oxford today. What a traffic hell-hole that place is! Before I decided to go into teaching, I actually went for an interview there. I was somewhat relieved NEVER TO HEAR ANYTHING from the people that interviewed me that day, even though I was one of only four or five people to [...]
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