tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66705962024-03-07T18:50:53.572+10:30ADHD LibrarianThe rants and howls of a librarian, blessed by by Bacchus with the gift of ADHD.ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.comBlogger299125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-18998048326710826512021-01-05T12:28:00.001+10:302021-01-05T12:28:10.127+10:30Communication in education<div>At some point in 2020, I was in a staff meeting and becoming frustrated with the language of education. In particular the way that school reports (at least in my experience as both teacher and parent) seem designed to ensure no one is upset by a teacher suggesting sometimes child can't do something. "Fred is developing the ability to ***" sounds good. But it reality it means "Fred should be able to *** but can't". To prevent myself from dominating the meeting with my complaints, I wrote the following policy (educators, feel free to present it to your institution as a policy suggestion).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>When producing school documents, it is important to ensure that these written instruments always facilitates educational dialogue and best practice outcomes. At The College we do this through the provision of multi-platform written communication, which deploys the most appropriate style guides alongside expedient editing processes and current formatting procedures (both manual and automated) to maximise intelligibility across language, cultural and intergenerational divides; producing an end product which eschews gatekeeper-centric obfuscation of the intended message created through professional and technical jargon or the use of potentially inconsistent vernacular expressions, in favour of phrasing which is capable of generating complete clarity and wide teaching decipherment through brevity and the intentional application of the most applicable form of accessible verbiage. We do this to ensure that we, as gatekeepers to educational outcomes, drive scholastic accomplishment through guaranteeing transparency and coherence of all grammar and vocabulary; and are therefore able to amplify the core message of The College to all stakeholders: internal, external, and potential.ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-14877723873199793222019-05-15T17:01:00.001+09:302019-05-15T17:01:09.589+09:30A sermon on John 20<br />
A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to preach the sermon at my local Anglican Church. I post it here, not because I think I have any readers (given how long I have gone between posts), but because I liked writing a sermon and I don't want to lose it.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I
have enjoyed the writing of Paul Tillich since well before I understood
Christianity well enough to be able to understand what he wrote. One of the
first things that stood out to me was his statement: "Sometimes
I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the
faithful."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">As
someone who grew up unchurched, this resonated with me. I felt like I was
defending why I had faith, to those who didn't; but when I was with people of
faith I found the resounding denial of doubt unconvincing and even off-putting.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">That
is why I feel like I understand today’s gospel reading. Thomas and his reaction
to the disciples' story that - the same Jesus he had seen crucified, had popped
in for tea and scones. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Even
before 20th century western medicine became the big fashionable way of
understanding how death works, people were well aware that dying was a one way
track, so it is not unreasonable for Thomas to be a little concerned that his
friends might have, in their grief, all got a bit confused.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">We
live in a world where people won’t come and sit with us on a Sunday morning
because. If I can't see it and can't touch it, why should I believe it? The
scientific method and critical thinking skills have been at the centre of our
education system for a long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">So
it is logical for both unbelievers and believers to ask do I need to believe in
things that I can't see?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">And,
if I do, how do I work out what those things are?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">And
on what basis do I believe them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">In
short I guess, where is the boundary between faith and gullibility or between
faith and deliberately ignoring reality? How many of us are putting our fingers
in our ears and going “lalala lala”?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">This
is a critical thing for Christians to grapple with, because you don't have to
look far to find people who will tell you all the things that Christians
shouldn't believe in: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">climate
change, evolution, fossil geology or </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">healing,
resurrection and answered prayer...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">So,
again, how do we work out which of these things we do (or can, or should)
believe in? How do we engage seriously with contentious issues and faith's part
in modern society?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Thomas,
in today's reading, shows us one way we can work out our faith. We can put our
fingers in in, touch things, examine them. I would say though that is not just
something we can do, but something we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>should</u></i>
do. And I’d like you to consider that following Thomas' example is good for the
church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">When
it comes to people leaving the church, most statistics seem to be American, but
the American stats line up with what I hear from my students; and that is a clear
belief that Christianity and Science are incompatible. So, if one of those things
has to go it is faith they discard. We are (unintentionally I hope) putting a
stumbling block in the way of others by demanding that they quell their doubt,
push it down, hide it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Thomas’,
story gives us permission to use scientific enquiry in questions of faith. Even
more importantly, we see Jesus' response to this doubt. Thomas is not cast out
from amongst the believers, he is not rebuked because he failed to reign in his
sceptical nature and he is not instructed to turn his brain off and pretend
that ignoring your doubts is the same as having faith. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">“Put
your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side.
Stop doubting and believe.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">He
is allowed to test the claims that the other disciples put to him and once he
has performed that test then and only then does Jesus instruct him to stop
doubting. So, let’s embrace those with doubts and make St James the sort of
place where the curious are welcome to poke their fingers in and test what they
find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">This
is not the only scripture that shows us we are permitted to admit our doubts.
In Mark 9 we meet a father who brings his son to Jesus. The son suffers from
convulsion and the father wants to know is healing is possible. When Jesus tells
the father “Everything is possible for one who believes.” we hear a profoundly
human cry from the father “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">So,
where do we go to find what we as Christians should believe? Well, you don't
rely on me to tell you. Nor should any of us rely on anyone to be the sole
arbiter of what is true just because they have access to a pulpit. Take your
cue from Thomas and work out the answers for yourself using God's word and
sticking your fingers into the confusing bits; to make sure you are
understanding them. 1 Thessalonians 5 talks about prophecies, “don't treat them
with contempt but test them all; hold on to what is good.” It tells us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Some
in The Church, I think, need an occasional gentle reminder that testing things
is not the same as denying God. Whether it is prophecy or the words of anyone
who tells you that they know the truth “test them all; hold on to what is good.”
What does testing them mean? Test them by making sure they line up with
reality. Test them by making sure that they line up with God’s word. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Testing,
like doubting, is not a lack of faith. It is perfectly easy to disbelieve
something without testing it, just look at the claims being made in our current
election campaign and the reactions of the public who believe the claims of
those they like and disbelieve the claims of those they don’t – without testing
anything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">For
other (myself included) I would put the emphasis on a different part of 1
Thessalonians 5. “don't treat them with contempt” and Jesus’ words to Thomas
“Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not
seen and yet have believed.” Because doubting shouldn’t be the same as being
cynical. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Don’t
try to avoid being a Doubting Thomas, follow Thomas’ example. Be open with your
doubts because you don’t build your faith by supressing them, you build your
faith by putting your finger directly into the disgusting, confusing,
impossible parts of your faith and try to understand what you find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Thomas,
despite his desire for proof, went on to do great things. It is claimed that he
travelled as far as India, establishing Christianity there in the year 52. Some
230 years before Christianity reached Britain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">And,
if you have doubts about how true that story is, that is probably OK.</span></div>
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<![endif]-->ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-33488266292625196222017-08-15T15:56:00.001+09:302017-08-15T15:56:51.280+09:30Who is to blame?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who is to blame for the current (apparent) popularity in being a loud, proud, violent, racist, sexist, homophobe? I think I have it all worked out...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unlike what some may be telling you, I don't think we can blame the Abbotts and Bernadis of this world. Arsehole politicians with outdated views on what other people should be doing are really nothing new. And, for the most part, the rest of the world just ignores them for a few years before accidentally voting them in again at the next election.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">No, we can rule them out as the cause.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I put it to you that the real cause is HIPSTERS.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, hipsters. Bearded, boutique-beer drinking, vinyl listening, bicycle riders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Being a hipster might seem harmless, but as you reach back into the 20th century in order to locate more obscure things that you can like and know about before your friends do, it is only a matter of time before you bring back other things with you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What things? Well, racism and homophobia are pretty retro. And it is surely a short step from being the sort of man who thinks that shaving with a straight razor might be fun, to </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">being the sort of man who thinks that</span></span> women are his to command. Were you into that before it was cool? Well it is still not cool, so stop it.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanhayes/42100144/in/photolist-4HLUy-85yiwQ-fGEoLk-5mK7D3-745VUv-bKXaR2-7NS1ya-pBF8XR-9F6ffk-p59o7p-cGKUDq-UCpt9K-8caMhp-ecaPFe-bgMhgg-9QSiPB-fJ4ZvV-g4D89S-q46HFs-9F6fgX-7wMgd2-dwjaMs-cDYdhf-53twF5-jy3Hte-fNnK2j-7aGDgK-3qUdey-szWvK-j1wKFh-7hXYfJ-9shESL-8yF4oj-8g2dYr-ocNYVi-e8RZQ1-jK5rBX-hziu2-8Tp2gN-hAHp9z-RKTBKh-Cw7FpW-bTsMRB-6s9o4P-7Miofa-qvsjDa-cYxnFw-noveKd-CnVQX-TXiwnV" target="_blank">Ryan Hayes</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, what is my solution? I think it is obvious, rather than looking to the past for our inspiration it is time to look to the future. And not the dystopian, 'the future will be awful' sort of stuff. Real imaginative science-fiction!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you want: same sex marriage; to close the gender pay gap; to get racists off the streets again; to find a world where we welcome the alien among us, then read science fiction again.</span></span></div>
<br />ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-66338260394029560932017-02-07T17:46:00.001+10:302017-02-07T17:46:22.586+10:30Vote 1 The Gutless, spineless, gormless, direction-less, neurotic, underachieving, snivelling, cowardly pile of Smeg Party.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lJbuYMBiJ-Q/WJlzoM5uAWI/AAAAAAAAGLY/STeONOzmyLUU8FYqaywQNjqlQ69z-JALACLcB/s1600/coryrimmer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lJbuYMBiJ-Q/WJlzoM5uAWI/AAAAAAAAGLY/STeONOzmyLUU8FYqaywQNjqlQ69z-JALACLcB/s400/coryrimmer.jpg" title="" width="322" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A rare photo of Cory NOT thinking about what gay men get up to.</td></tr>
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The Cory B Bernardi Song<br />
(with apologies to Arnold J Rimmer)</div>
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If you're in trouble he will save the day</div>
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He's brave and he's fearless and so not gay</div>
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Without him our nation would go astray</div>
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He's Cory, Cory, Cory Bernardi </div>
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Without him our progress would be less tardy</div>
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He's handsome, trim, and just changed party</div>
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He will see if that was quite foolhardy</div>
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He's Cory, Cory, Cory Bernardi </div>
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More rugged than rugby’s Scott Fardy </div>
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He's frequently been mistaken for a pharisee</div>
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He's very very worried about your sexuality</div>
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Goes and sits in church for his Sunday</div>
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His belief that he is right is uncanny</div>
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How come he's such a wanker? Don't ask me!</div>
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Ask Cory, Cory, Cory Bernardi </div>
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His head looks like a strange erection</div>
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And if you write your votes right</div>
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Then he just might be out of parliament next election.</div>
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He's Cory, Cory, Cory Bernardi </div>
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Thinking of him makes me scoll bacardi</div>
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We’ll decorate his election posters with a sharpie</div>
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And try and ignore his political bastardy</div>
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(with thanks to Adam for the title of the post) </div>
ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-53208587429414809482016-08-05T14:50:00.000+09:302016-08-05T15:09:26.458+09:30<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I received an email today (I actually received hundreds, but that is another issue), this one was on the census and I include it here for context when you read my ensuing rant.<br />
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<b>Subject:</b> Be careful how you answer
the Census next Tuesday night</blockquote>
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Dear Friends,
Next Tuesday night (9 August) is 2016 Census night – where we are required by law to answer all sorts of questions to help governments make decisions about such things as public transport, housing, education and hospitals.
There has been little controversy – until now. </div>
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<img class="CToWUd a6T" height="306" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=b55e386a6c&view=fimg&th=156592508acaeb1a&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=10bae83b32442522_0.1.1&attbid=ANGjdJ-4CIMJWUe82Z9Q8YTIOLVIF6e6jzIB89ZYYceTmgCLbgtrmpgQzneVY6hhoMH4OWIP1FlnOX6cODDHIAd6cjdf8T-LQTa22BJ87Uzi955hEUGXJ52UlI1xtGY&sz=w894-h612&ats=1470374415647&rm=156592508acaeb1a&zw&atsh=1" tabindex="0" title="" width="447" /></blockquote>
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This year, the religion question – and its implications for the funding of school chaplains and faith-based charities, as well as tax-exempt status for churches – is all important.
The religion question is the only one that is not compulsory. It lists six Christian denominations and three non-Christian religions, with a space for “other” – but this year for the first time, “No religion” is the first option.
That was the result of a quiet campaign by the Atheist Foundation of Australia three years ago. They hope that putting “No religion” at the top before any other option, they would win the “donkey vote” – and ultimately force governments to end any subsidy or recognition for the huge amount of public good done by faith-based community organisations.
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They have also mounted an advertising campaign in supermarket car parks and elsewhere, urging people to mark the “No religion” box.
The problem is compounded by the fact that many non-denominational Christians mark “No religion” because they have faith in Christ, but don’t belong to a particular denomination. To them, “religion” means “denomination”. </div>
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Make sure we answer the religion question – by marking one of the six boxes for Christian denominations, or writing “Christian” or something similar in the space provided for “other” religion. </div>
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Send this email to other friends and family, encouraging them to do the same. </div>
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Pray – that the atheist campaign will fail.
May the Lord bless and guide you! </div>
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To which I reply...<br />
There are some interesting assumptions here. Amongst them: that no religion is on top of the list for nefarious reasons; that the tax status of churches & funding of chaplains is tied to census figures; and that atheists automatically oppose good work done by faith based charities.<br />
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I would like to point out that (while this email isn't) there are also some doing the rounds proposing people mark Christian in order that 'Islam can't take over'.<br />
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I would like to propose that if any of you are taking part in a conversation about the census, the correct position for a Christian to take is that we want people to answer the question honestly. It doesn't serve the church to promote a dishonest answer regardless of whether our fear is of atheists, Muslims or our own declining influence on policy makers. I say "our fear" because I think that the driver for this (and emails like it) is fear, rather than reality and I don't believe that we (as Christians) should be operating out of a place of fear.
This is especially true when the fear is a fear of waning political influence. Our call as The Church is not to legislate morality, nor to take over the government, it is to love the stranger among us and we don't do that through building upon the fear campaigns which are taking over western political discourse.<br />
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The last Census showed us that 13,150,673 people identified as Christian and a mere 476,291 identified as Islamic. Likewise 14,871,285 people identified as having a religion while only 4,796,785 gave the answer of no-religion. Neither Atheists nor Muslims look likely to be ousting Christianity from its place of significance in Australia. Not that I would be advocating a campaign to lie on the census, even if Christianity, Atheism and Islam were locked in a three way tie with political influence to the victor.<br />
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In a similar vein, the campaign to get people to mark 'no religion' is not about convincing me (or you) to mark that option, rather it is about people who were nominally 'born' to a religion but are not adherents. It is about accuracy of information. Information which we in the church can then use to find out who our community really are and how we can serve them & reach them.<br />
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The funding of school chaplains is a political matter, for the government of the day. Likewise the tax status of churches. Decisions will be made based on our votes, not our demographics. (And perhaps on the perception people have about those denominations which are making their preachers wealthy while providing little or nothing for their communities. Or on the quality of the work done by the chaplains).<br />
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The good work of faith based charities & their funding, is likewise unrelated to census figures. Rather, as long as they continue in their good work, they will be supported by the public. One only has to look at the public support for the salvos or, conversely, the public distaste for recent foreign-aid campaigns where the money was eaten up by 'admin costs'.<br />
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If you look at the old census question you may note that the option of 'no religion' is not obvious. In gathering data, this is likely to skew the results. This is the reason that the format of the question has been changed and while a campaign by an atheist organisation may have brought this to the attention of the Census, the decision was (as it always is in the Census) based on ensuring the accuracy of data collected.<br />
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As a librarian, historian & teacher I rely on accuracy
of information and, as far as I see it, the census has tweaked this
question in an attempt to get the most accurate data (which includes
hoping the changes mean less people put Jedi as their religion).
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Image of question 19 from the 2011 Census" class="CToWUd a6T" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgzkwc8dmCWmhG-oCOE-_QnK_1vZFnqdkxXLrdiX_zZiE_ZJMN5XSkjO1M2a2WFeh71JZPtPNtZ38ZunpkOf4JxHS4oF94qf9OJbNgIHRfDLYwY4oxOef2QUtSo4kXud_cO5ZDF4swN2lytNov2jzdh6XZaXxHqVUUjb2nf3TUpnSu99zn8X9SKdysd-kL6Kj_V0BFByyQbu80Y1O1rxYvbRSN8YXSkcWNI5-nsoPh5T4FLGnVK7Pq-Vjj4pPegAkrzKjGFeDlxKtuKwsEbhGs90AuAwqCnL6PuuYrq=s0-d-e1-ft&FieldElemFormat=gif" tabindex="0" title="" width="550" /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The
real controversy in the current census, is actually about data
retention and privacy</b>, but that is a topic for another manifesto.</span><br />
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ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-69987369494103473492016-03-26T18:55:00.002+10:302016-05-10T09:40:21.870+09:30A letter to a brick, with eyes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The following is the text of a message I sent to <a href="http://senatorlazarus.com/" target="_blank">Senator Glenn Lazurus</a>. It is in relation to a wonderfully <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan" target="_blank">bogan </a>discussion that was occurring on his facebook page, in relation to the lack of the word Easter on eggs. I was aware of the moral panic and hand-wringing of the faux 'war on Christmas' but was unaware that those who are paranoid that Halal will cause them to 'catch the Muslim' are also worried about the Muslim population's seditious plan to get hold of our Easter treats.<br />
(we stole Easter from the Pagans fair and square and we're not going to let brown people steal it off us!)<br />
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Senator Lazarus,<br />
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I know that you do not share my (lefty libertarian) political bent, and I suspect you do not share my brand of progressive Christianity. However, I have an Easter request for you. You are offended <a href="https://www.facebook.com/senatorlazarus/photos/a.108738029332817.1073741829.106131972926756/457397534466863/?type=3&comment_id=1668626290053500&reply_comment_id=976899319052728&notif_t=photo_reply" target="_blank">you tell us</a>, about the lack of the word Easter on Cadbury rabbits.<br />
Now, as a Christian, I don't feel that the word Easter (or lack thereof) on a purple box is really deleterious to the practice of my chosen faith.<br />
As an Australian I know we don't have a state religion, nor do I believe we should.<br />
As a lefty, I don't believe that comments about Muslims "taking over" and "breading like rabbits" should be let go without remark. And, that remark would be to point out that I remember the same fears existed over "wogs and slopes". Yet now, few of us would wish to go back and undo the multicultural Gordian Knot which has resulted in a richer culture for my children (and better coffee for me).<br />
As someone with a libertarian bent, I don't believe the comments of those who fear 'Muslim cultural creep' should be censored. Rather that they should be debated honestly in the public sphere. So, I find it upsetting that I am now unable to comment on your facebook page because (it would appear) my stance is more offensive than some of the vile racism and juvenile name calling in that discussion? <br />
I am aware that it is unlikely that you administer your own social media, so would like you to be aware that this debate exists and that whomever holds the password to this aspect of your public face appears to be censoring the debate in one particular direction.<br />
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Regards,<br />
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[edit, shortly after sending this message my ability to post reappeared. I am not sure if I was reinstated or if I had initially been caught by some sort of SPAM filter? However, it seems my comments have not reappeared and I am not militant enough to go through the 2000 posts in order to find the ones I commented on and rewrite my comments. Suffice it to say, dear reader, they were droll, but while demonstrating breathtaking political, spiritual and ideological genius].<br />
(second edit, no it seems that while the comment button momentarily reappeared as I read the comments, I am unable to click on it).ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-77540433807357831102014-10-14T22:26:00.001+10:302016-03-27T00:01:00.656+10:30'straya knuts<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE8HNUT67N3pBqwK9Du8_RT0dCi3p0qlfmwT-AIsc5muiMCIcsneIgZXExcPye-umGCF-cQLMVCPmlPZ5Fg7liXNhtfudnwav3fsVkuIfjzlpjZnY5Y86xI9RZb_clf04PnN0sJw/s1600/389724-5140ba3e-5369-11e4-a40d-833ddda6a9b8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="If you don't love it, LEAVE" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE8HNUT67N3pBqwK9Du8_RT0dCi3p0qlfmwT-AIsc5muiMCIcsneIgZXExcPye-umGCF-cQLMVCPmlPZ5Fg7liXNhtfudnwav3fsVkuIfjzlpjZnY5Y86xI9RZb_clf04PnN0sJw/s320/389724-5140ba3e-5369-11e4-a40d-833ddda6a9b8.jpg" title="T-shirt" width="208" /></a>
Australia, if you don't love it leave!
Simple enough statement and one which (it seems) a lot of people think is perfectly innocent when worn on a t-shirt. "Political correctness gone mad" I hear people say, when it is suggested a major chain might like to rethink selling said shirt.<br />
I have read "If you don't love your job leave, if you don't love your relationship leave" Not awful advice, but perhaps not your only option. If you don't love your job, quit and go on the dole? Or is their benefit in working a job you don't like because you are working towards a better one? <br />
Don't like your relationship? Sure give up, but there might also be a benefit in working to make it better. You know, a bit of counselling and that sort of thing. Might not work, but perhaps you won't take your same flaws to the next relationship without some awareness.<br />
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So, I could leave this post with the final thought "Australia, love it or work within the system to improve it" (and then co to cafe-press and start selling a t-shirt with that slogan on it).<br />
But that is not the whole story, because like it or not there is underlying racism in the idea. What?<br />
Noooo, not racism in Australia, I hear you say.<br />
Sorry, but yep. Because more often than not the " 'staya, love it of fuck off" is tied to the "go back where you came from" sentiment. Now, I know that YOU reading this are not like that, but stay with me here...<br />
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There are plenty of people with legitimate complaints about Australian society. If (like me) you are lucky enough to be pale of complexion and capable of speaking strine, then no one questions your love of the country. If I decide I am going to start a fast food franchise and I will replace the meat with tofu, people might call me a wanker. But, if I am opening my store in an area where the customers are all ironic vegan hipsters it might be a good business decision. But if I were brown and my store was to be in Lakemba and I decided that rather than tofu I was going to use halal meat... Then I might hear "if you don't like it, leave" (although, given what I have been reading I think I would hear a lot worse than that).<br />
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To this debate, let me add to your thinking that there are many in our indigenous community who have things to say about our society which might indicate they do not always love this nation the way blokes with flag capes and southern-cross tattoos might demand.<br />
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What is that? Free speech, I hear you cry! Sure, free speech it is. But doesn't free speech include the freedom to point out the things which are wrong? Doesn't free speech include to right of people to say "dear Woolies, your shirts suck, you suck and if you keep sucking so hard I might forgive coles for their stupid <i>down down</i> ads"?<br />
Likewise, the same free speech which lets you wear that shirt, includes the freedom for me to express the belief that, if you do you are a racist bogan.<br />
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Australia, you were either lucky enough to be born here or lucky enough to have come here. Either way, you didn't create this society, so if you want to be proud of something...<br />
be proud of the fact that you are not unquestioningly jingoistic<br />
be proud of the fact that you have worked to change things which you think are wrong<br />
be proud of the fact that you are working to maintain a society which allows those "who come across the seas" to put their stamp on our society (sure, if you want you are free to continue with meat and three veg while drinking international roast, but you are missing out).ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-22906660132192708452014-03-26T12:47:00.000+10:302014-03-26T12:48:28.426+10:30Christianity is a poor excuse for homophobiaMy FB feed has been going 'ping' a bit recently on the subject of homosexuality in the Christian Church. Things like the recent decision by <a href="http://rachelheldevans.com/blog/world-vision" target="_blank">World Vision</a> in the US to <a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/world-vision-adultery-no-homosexual-practice-yes" target="_blank">accept Gay Marriage</a>, when hiring people in US states where Gay Marriage is recognised (and the resulting evangelical backlash of "if you employ the gays, then we won't feed the world's poor because we think that is what Jesus wants") and the recent death of <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/03/16/feel-a-little-pity/" target="_blank">Fred Phelps</a> have got all sorts of Church, non-Church, ex-church and un-church folk musing on the topic.
The trouble I am having is that there is a lack of rational thinking in the debate. Well, no thinking nor love or compassion from so many of my fellow pew dwellers (like the evangelicals who think Jesus would rather poor kids starve than a Christian have to work with a homosexual). So, I thought I would add my own views on the topic to my own little corner of the web as my own attempt to shout into the void that not everyone who still gets up on a Sunday morning is so completely homophobic, nor so completely literal that we believe the bible can be understood by reading it once in English (or, by having it read to you by some guy in a white suit on the telly box).<br />
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The words I am about to paste into this post are the words I was invited to say from the pulpit of my local Anglican Church for a conversation on the Church's response to Gay Marriage...<br />
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The question for Christians has to come down to the simplest
command of Jesus. <i>Love one another as I have loved you</i>. And to me, the simple
denial of equality on the basis of sexuality is failing to show love. Some people may say that 'we love the sinner but hate the
sin'. Quite a popular phrase in this discussion. I don’t believe we can do that
very well and certainly I can see that a lot of what Christians think of as
hating the sin is seen just as hate. If we are seen as hateful, how do we show
Jesus to the world?</div>
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But, I want to look at the verses some Christians use to
condemn homosexuality.</div>
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Firstly the story of Sodom (Genisis 19:1-3). There is
nothing in this story which comes close to being about gay marriage. It is a
story of the breaking of hospitality laws and the use of rape as a tool of
dominance. The same is true of the story in Judges 19, the point of the story
is <u>not </u>that the house-guest was wanting to get out and enjoy the night life of
the city.</div>
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Plus, on a personal note, I would ask. Are you going to take
your moral bearings from a story where the ‘correct’ thing to do was to send
out your virgin daughters to be raped by a mob? Why is this verse being used as
evidence of homosexuality? If the mob were homosexual the daughters and
concubines would have been perfectly safe, no this is a morality tale about power and
dominance.</div>
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<span class="text">The (possibly, but not really) clearer verses are Leviticus
18:21-22, Leviticus 20:13. However, the first refers to child sacrifices to
Molech and the homosexuality mentioned may be part of the same idolatrous pagan
worship. The section in verse 20 also begins as a discussion of idolatrous
behaviour. Plus, it is part of a long list and if we want to keep this part of
the old testament law, can we choose just this verse or do we need to keep the
whole chapter (or the whole book). Because we allow people who curse their
parents to marry, but it is on the same list. We do not, as a church, condemn
sexual activity during menses, yet there it is on the same list.</span></div>
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<span class="text">Remember, our bible is not the Old
testament list of rules, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+7%3A18-7%3A19&version=NIV" target="_blank">the law has been set aside for it was weak and useless</a>
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which
we draw near to God (Hebrews 7). It is the much, much harder call to fulfil the
whole law by loving your neighbour as yourself. It is a call to love and
relationship with God and we do not bring anyone into a relationship with God
by imposing our favourite of the Old Testament laws on them and claiming it is
love. </span></div>
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So, onto the new testament...</div>
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Romans 1:26 Is not a prohibition against homosexuality but a
warning about what will happen to you if you exchange God for idolatry
(verse23-24). It may well refer to sexual acts as a part of worship in some
pagan temples.</div>
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The word that is presently translated as homosexual in the
new testament (in 1 Corinthians 6 & 1 Timothy 1) is <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Arsenokoites" target="_blank">arsenokoites</a>. But this
is a very recent (1946) translation of the word and is <a href="http://www.stjohnsmcc.org/new/BibleAbuse/Arsenokoites.php" target="_blank">by no means</a> a <a href="http://www.clgs.org/arsenokoit%C3%A9s-and-malakos-meanings-and-consequences" target="_blank">clear one</a>.
Paul’s use of the word arsenokoites is the first recorded use and he does not
define it. In fact, in all of classical literature there are fewer than 80 uses
of the word. The word literally means ‘Man Bed’ and during the reformation
because the word was man and not men, scholars translated it as masturbators.
While to our modern ears, man bed may seem obvious, the Greeks already had a
word for two men having intercourse (androkoites) so one must wonder why Paul
felt the need to coin a new word if that was what he wanted to say.</div>
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Some people suggest that Paul was talking about shrine
prostitution or about sexual relationships between a teacher and pupil (certainly,
until recently <span class="st">pederast </span>is how the 1 Corinthians verse
was translated). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others suggest that
(like the old testament verses I mentioned earlier) it refers to the use of
sexual domination as a way of showing superiority and power. Perhaps a master
and his slave, or to update the verse somewhat in light of the current <a href="http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/" target="_blank">Royal Commission</a> a priest and a congregant?</div>
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So, am I saying that Paul wasn’t talking about
homosexuality? I doubt he was, but I can’t be sure. However what I am sure
of is that Jesus' message can be condensed into <i>whatever you wish that others would do to you, do
also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets</i> (Matthew 7:12). So I feel no
need to invent reasons to discriminate against people or deny them the same
rights I have, nor do I feel the need to bring back the old testament
strictures, otherwise I am guilty of crimes enough to see me stoned to death every few days for the rest of time.</div>
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<i>There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in
Christ Jesus</i>. Galatians 3:28</div>
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ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-52113731332100481772013-12-16T17:02:00.002+10:302016-03-27T00:17:41.478+10:30Fighting against reality is pointlessThe article (which I won't link to, as it is not the point) was actually about gun deaths in the US, but it was the title which struck me "<b><i>Parents Should Never Outlive Their Children. Can We All Agree On That, At Least?</i></b>"
It struck me, because it is reflective of the disconnect between our lives and the reality of being a fragile bag of skin full of squishy organs in a world full of: sharp, heavy, bitey, zappy, fast.... 'stuff' capable of rendering the 'me' part of me unfindable. <br />
<ul>
<li>2 days ago a friend's 5 year old decided to crash tackle a moving hilux. </li>
<li>Another old friend's 30-something daughter is currently in an induced coma after a brain bleed. </li>
<li>A month or so ago, I was standing alongside a lot of my senior students at the funeral of a former classmate, listening to his parents talk about his life. </li>
<li>Earlier this year I failed to save the life of a co-worker who had a massive heart attack in a library full of students. </li>
<li>A few weeks later a 15 year old student decided to have a heart attack too and we were told the chances of him surviving were slim. </li>
</ul>
Yet, this isn't really much to deal with. I live in a country where death has been taken away. Not just away from the front room and into hospital, but away from the front of our thinking. For most people, in most of the world, throughout most of our history the idea that parents should never outlive their children would be patently absurd. Life is not something you can hold onto by arguing with it, there is no Pratchettesque grim reaper willing to listen to you as you rage against the injustice, like a 13 year old girl who has been told to stop talking in class and refuses to accept any sanction unless EVERY girl in the class who has EVER talked in this or any other class, but has not been caught, get an equal sanction...<br />
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Parents should never outlive their children? Why not? Tell that to the parents of Kandahar whose children have been collateral damage. How about the people of Iraq, whose mortality rates for the under 5s is two and a half times higher than it was before we brought them the gift of freedom. Yeah, it is OK, I'm not going all lefty today. It isn't just about the wars, it is about the deaths from famine and disease in so many countries.<br />
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Mmm, perhaps we will all ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-71553989322712405762013-08-29T16:16:00.000+09:302013-08-29T16:16:22.630+09:30I plan, you plan, we all plan for NAPLAN part II<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">And, a closer
inspection of my coursework tells me all my earlier fears have been realised. I am pointed towards the
maths NAPLAN too…</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Well, I did manage an
advanced B in year 10 and then passed accountancy for my (as yet incomplete)
Masters in Management. So year 7 should be a doddle, right?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Well, to a degree yes.
Like my rant on the language test, my own way of approaching things is a bit
off kilter. In the case of Maths, I am a whiz kid for special reasoning (what
is the next shaded nonagon in the series, which side of the cube will be opposite
side ‘c’) and I am more than capable of working out how to calculate most any
equation short of the introduction of Greek letters, so the calculator section
is fine. What kills me is a processing inability, I am incapable of holding
numbers in my head for more than an instant and I am (genetically? physiologically?)
incapable of learning my times tables. This leaves me in a very difficult place
for the calculator free test, counting on your fingers may be frowned upon for
a year 7 student. It is certainly frowned upon when you are standing in front
of a year 10 geography class teaching them how to manage the statistics and
graphing data they need for their fieldwork report.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Really, like my
earlier post, this one is just going to suggest that it is important that I
(and you, dear reader) ensure that we don’t assume that a lack of ability in
one area (or several) points to a generic lack of ability or the presence of
stupidity. Like the ‘Idiot Savant’ (an evocative, if somewhat inaccurate term)
I would posit the existence of the ‘Savant Idiot’. Savant idiots are those of
us who despite our obvious intellect across most fields of endeavour, manage to
have an area (or two) where our failures are spectacular and no amount of
effort seems able to displace our natural deficit. </span></div>
ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-46837364839876203532013-08-29T15:52:00.001+09:302013-08-29T16:22:42.007+09:30I plan, you plan, we all plan for NAPLAN<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Have I mentioned I am doing a Dip Ed? (or a Graduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning as it is now more grandiosely known). Well, I am. Not because I have been brow beaten by those who 2 or 3 years ago were berating librarians for stealing the jobs of teacher librarians or because I have to. Well, the why is a whole other post so I will ignore it for now. The point today is that I was asked to "</span>Go to the NAPLAN website and complete the year 7 Language Conventions
test. What did you learn about your level of literacy? How did you
feel doing this test? How might your awareness of this test affect how
you teach and what you look for in students' work?"</div>
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What follows is my answer and I thought it rather 'blogworthy' </div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Year 7 language
conventions? Ha! I’m sorted with this one. Now, if you’d been asking me to do a
NAPLAN on year 7 maths I would have had to fire up a few neurons which haven’t
been used as much of late (<a href="http://adhd-librarian.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/i-plan-you-plan-we-all-plan-for-naplan.html" target="_blank">see post 2</a> ed.).</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I’m going to make a
few tangential remarks on this one.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Firstly if I was your
student and you were given my special needs documentation you would see that I
am an ADHD kid whose language scores are rock bottom and whose maths scores are
sky high (at least as far as the aptitude testing reports it). Yet in the
classroom (and the subsequent ‘real world’) you would see that maths bores me
while literature excites me. You would also as a teacher come to realise that
part of the reason for this is that, while I know the conventions of language,
I do not always choose to use them. But, add to this the fact that I am
manifestly incapable of spelling.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">As a school student,
this was the bane of my existence. Picture a poor, put upon, year 4 boy whose
face falls when it is time for the school-wide reading programme. Hates
reading? Mmm, he won’t be alone there. No, in fact he loves reading, but at the
start of year 4 has progressed well beyond the reading programme which is still
engaging every other student in the school. So the school-wide programme
becomes ‘school -1’ and this boy is instead sent to sit out on the front step
(where he won’t disturb others) and to work on a remedial spelling programme. A
remedial programme which fails utterly, perhaps because it is as dull as
dishwater, perhaps because the student doesn’t care to spell, perhaps because
the programme doesn’t address why he can’t spell? </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Whatever the reason I
(who will stop referring to myself in the 3<sup>rd</sup> person now, as that is
the behaviour of egotistical sportstars in post-match interviews)…<br />
I keep on progressing through school without any marked improvement on
spelling. Content that I am able to make myself understood but caring more
about the idea I am caught in, than about the niceties of making it pretty to
the eyes of society. As luck would have it though, I was born at a point where
this would not cause me any issues at all. At the same time I hit the
job-market and the university, technology gives me the spellcheck. At first
this just allows me to fix things at the end, but with the introduction of the
wiggly red line something changes. This line, in my peripheral vision, somehow
shortcuts its way into my subconscious and over the period of a few years I
found myself repeating my errors less. Words, which were once a mystery to me (like
those with a proliferation of Cs, Ss or double Ss followed by a single C…)
suddenly work.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Am I making a point
here?<br />
I hope so.</span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><br />
Standardised testing is a very good form of data gathering, but not on the
micro level. Mmm, perhaps not on the macro either. Umm, somewhere in the middle
is a sweet spot where the data is good. But if you use these tests to tell a
kid language is not his thing, you might not be looking at the totality of the
kid. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">How does this affect
my teaching? I am liable to take an English class and say “you are writing
poetry, don’t interrupt your flow of ideas in order to make sure you are
spelling things right”. I might be tempted to tell a history student that I
will NOT be marking spelling in her essay (how many marks did I lose over the
years because my ability to spell did not match my knowledge of Greek
Mythology?). Will I therefore ignore spelling? I don’t think so, my students
need to know how to make themselves understood. But I will not let a student’s
lack of spelling make them believe they are not good at writing or at history nor
will I make them recalcitrant to use unaccustomed words because the mundane
ones are safe. I will also work to find the right tool for the student. This
will mean doing things like: turning off the autocorrect so they need to look
at a word before the computer fixes it; making sure the language settings on
their computers are set on British English not US English; showing them how
GOOGLE will suggest ways to spell a word if their own computer is stumped; I
will give them thesauruses so that they can find exciting alternatives whose
spelling makes sense to them; and I will make sure they know that there is
always a way to get around whatever the test tells them, that they decide their
destination not some computer-read piece of A4 that they need to mark with a 2B
pencil.</span></div>
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<![endif]-->ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-60208628773538218182013-07-19T18:03:00.002+09:302013-07-19T18:09:48.731+09:30The death of compassion.An <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/kevin-rudd-to-send-asylum-seekers-who-arrive-by-boat-to-papua-new-guinea-20130719-2q9fa.html">awful day in Australian Political Life</a> has lead me to re-pen our national anthem.<br />
<br />
Australians all let us beware,<br />
For we are girt by sea;<br />
We've golden soil and wealth you’d spoil;<br />
We are with-out sympathy;<br />
Our land abounds in nature's gifts<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The K Rudd Labor 'Australian' flag for 2013</td></tr>
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Of beauty we won’t share;<br />
In history's page, let every stage<br />
Australia Don’t Go There.<br />
In joyful strains then let us sing,<br />
Australia Don’t Go There.<br />
<br />
Beneath our tattooed Southern Cross<br />
We'll toil with heads and hands;<br />
To keep this Commonwealth of ours<br />
Locked off from all the lands;<br />
For those who'd come across the seas<br />
We've boundless plains to keep;<br />
With courage let us all combine<br />
To make them just for sheep.<br />
In joyful strains then let us see<br />
you, piss off to PNG.<br />
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guess it is only a matter of time before we change our flag. I have
been quite fond of that idea for some time, so I present to you a new
flag to go with our new Anthem and new policy on refugees. </span></div>
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ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-79927341450634066292012-12-05T00:18:00.003+10:302012-12-05T00:18:32.069+10:30Dundee cake - a Christmas postIn my first concession to the currant (yes, pun intended) festive season I baked a nice fruitcake on the weekend. It was a recipe I cobbled together from several which didn't strike me as quite right, so having been successful I thought I'd share it with you by way of a Festivus gift. Bake one and give it to your school's librarian.<br />
<br />
Ingredients:<br />
<br />175g butter<br />
175g soft dark-brown sugar <br />4 tbsp orange (or lime) marmalade <br />3 or 4 eggs, <br />225g self-raising flour <br />40g almond meal (more if you like that marzipanesque flavour)<br />
2 tsp ground mixed spice <br />200g currants <br />200g raisins <br />75g glacé cherries, halved <br />4 or 5 tbsp whisky (I used 50:50 of Glenfiddich and Jim Beam)<br />80g blanched almonds to decorate <br />1 tsp caster sugar, to sprinkle over the top<br /><br />
Preparation method:<br />
<ol>
<li>Soak currants and raisins in whisky for at least an hour. <br />Have a nip yourself while you wait.</li>
<li>Preheat the oven to 150C. Grease and line a 20cm loose-based deep cake tin with kitchen paper. </li>
<li>Beat the butter and sugar in a food processor for 3-4 minutes (until light and fluffy). </li>
<li>Add the marmalade and the eggs, beating well after each egg. </li>
<li>Add the flour, almonds and spices to the batter. Mix slowly until well combined, then stir in the dried fruits. </li>
<li>Spoon the mixture into the cake tin, smooth the surface and arrange the blanched almonds in some sort of fancy pattern on top. </li>
<li>Bake for 2 hours*, or until well risen, firm and golden-brown. (use the skewer test to ensure it is cooked) </li>
<li>Let it cool a little in the tin before turning onto a rack. Sprinkle with sugar and eat with gusto.</li>
</ol>
<br />*cake took a little over 2 hours in our dodgy oven.ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-19247339834016647792012-08-01T13:00:00.000+09:302012-08-01T13:04:56.642+09:30Teacher Librarians, Luddites in musty book museumsAt the risk of being repetitive...<br />
<br />
Teacher Librarian Advocacy is useless, there is no way anyone in
government could possibly justify throwing good money after bad by
propping up this outdated profession. Why would I say such a thing? Lets
take as an example the members of our profession, not the best and
brightest (every profession, trade and vocation has superb
practitioners) for they are not examples of the whole. No, lets examine
the general 'body behind the circ desk' if you will. This person is a
moron, trapped behind outdated technology (bitching and moaning about
the death of the roneo file) and wishing for the good old days when the
library was quiet (wood panelled and probably lit by gas lamps).<br />
<br />
Lets think back over the last few months about all the hard work
people (many of them on this list) have been putting in. Telling the NSW
state government that school principals should NOT be able to take TL
money and use it to pay a mere tech specialist. Using the best practice
examples of our members to demonstrate all that should (and could) be.
How a library can lift a whole school and the TL can drive test scores
up, participation up and so much more besides.<br />
<br />
Now imagine that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_O%27Farrell" target="_blank">Barry O'Farrell</a> (persuaded by this impassioned
plea) decided that today was the day he would investigate further. Today
he would visit our newsgroup and make sure he was fully up to speed on
the issue.<br />
<br />
He'd not only allow principals to fire their TLs he'd damn well make
it compulsory. And he'd possibly bulldoze all the libraries and sow the
ground with salt into the bargain. Then (if he had any sense) he would have us all neutered
in order to ensure we didn't reproduce.<br />
<br />
Now, I know I have moaned about this sort of thing on here <a href="http://adhd-librarian.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/are-we-selling-buggy-whips.html" target="_blank">before </a>(and <a href="http://adhd-librarian.blogspot.com.au/2010/11/unsubscribing-from-oztlnet-complex-37.html" target="_blank">before that</a>).
But I can not believe what I have been reading here the last couple of
days. How can anyone expect to convince people that our profession
should be allowed to be responsible for teaching students to navigate
the digital world when it would seem the average member of our
profession thinks 'the cloud' is something<a href="http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/7400000/Old-Man-Yells-At-Cloud-the-simpsons-7414384-265-199.gif" target="_blank"> to yell at.</a>
How can anyone tell me that teacher librarians have a role to play in
digital citizenship and helping young people navigate the complexity of
social media when we as a group are completely unable to deal with a <b>
WONDERFUL </b>and <b>SEAMLESS </b>transfer of our discussion list to an updated
platform?<br />
<br />
Oh, and putting the snark aside for a moment. <b>Thanks to all involved for the upgrade.</b><br />
<br />
So,
where was I? Oh yes, people getting their knickers in a bunch about the
'new'. The 'new' is what we do folks. We should not sound like a group
of 13 year old girls who have just found out that Facebook has done a
redesign. "I liked it better before" This is not the voice I expect from
major stakeholders in the knowledge economy. <br />
<br />
Don't like it? Don't want to be on the list any more? Then <a href="http://oztlnet.com/oztl_net-members-subscription-tools/" target="_blank">UNSUBSCRIBE YOURSELF</a>! Stop asking the rest of us to do it for you.<br />
Want
to complain that there are too many emails? Complain to your spouse or
psychiatrist because the reason there are too many emails is because you
keep emailing the whole list to complain there are too many emails. I
don't care! I can't do anything about it, I am just a member of the list
myself. The wonderful <b>free </b>and informative list, which no one forced to to join and, no one is stopping you from leaving.<br />
But please, for the love of all that is sane, shut up and let this list
go back to discussing the things that allow me to do my job with a bit
more flair than I would if not for this amazing brains trust.
Discussions about Olympic copyright, the best picture books, readers
advisory methodologies, new books for the national curriculum and even
clickview requests (if you must). <br />
<br />
Want to complain about the upgrade? Go right ahead. As I librarian I found the link for you <a href="http://oztlnet.com/contact-us/" target="_blank">http://oztlnet.com/contact-us/</a> (just like I found the unsubscribe link up above).<br />
<br />
Is there some OZTL protocol that says I am not allowed to take the email
addresses of the next 5 people who mindlessly ask to be unsubscribed and
send them to all the Nigerian scammers whose messages reside in my SPAM
folder?<br />
I mean, I know it is unethical, but is it specifically banned? Because at this point in time that seems like perfectly rational behaviour.ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-63315542116477668732012-06-02T23:45:00.001+09:302012-06-02T23:45:08.056+09:30Wait, how many days in June?Did I suggest yesterday that I might try to blog EVERY day in June?<br />
Damn!<br />
Here it is, 15 minutes of the 2nd left, I'm about to go to bed after getting home from the rugby club (yes, we won). I have some Uni work which is probably more vital than this and I am sleepy.<br />
Anyone thinking about joining me in Blog every OTHER day in June?ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-29008605493153373372012-06-01T18:06:00.001+09:302012-06-01T18:06:15.877+09:30Are we selling buggy whips?I am not in NSW these days, and when I was I wasn't a school librarian, so this post has the caveat that I possibly don't know what the hell I am talking about. Still, when has that ever stopped me having an opinion?<br />
<br />
At the moment when I read the emails that fly around the teacher-librarian world, there is a lot of chatter about the current setup in NSW where the government is moving towards letting school principals have the power to hire and fire. I believe it is being tagged "local schools, local decisions". I am listening to a lot of people who are <a href="http://hubinfo.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/nsw-tls-visit-local-members-to-discuss-local-schools-local-decisions/" target="_blank">very upset by this</a> because they believe that this power is putting teacher-librarians and school libraries at risk.<br />
So to that end we are seeing <a href="http://hubinfo.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/letters-to-the-editor/" target="_blank">letters to the editor </a>and interviews on the tabloid TV programmes.<br />
<br />
My question is, is this advocacy the right tack for this situation? I am happily ensconced in the library of a Catholic school and as such there is no requirement for a librarian. In fact for a lot of time there wasn't one, however the previous principal decided that a neglected library was no good at all and the current one has continued to listen to my cries for more space and more money, so in the space of two an a half school years this library has been transformed.<br />
<br />
Why do my NSW public school colleagues not feel that 'local decisions' are likely to free up funds to rebuild their libraries? Why is it an instant fear that the result will instead be giving them the boot and ploughing their stupid outdated old books into the ground as landfill and using the free space to buy a metric arseload of ipads?<br />
<br />
There are all sorts of stats to be quoted, the decline in teacher librarian numbers in Victoria under the Kennett government. One paper I read mentions that only 8.6% of NT schools have a teacher librarian. But then, given that there are a lot of very small schools in the NT I am not sure this stat means much. Furthermore, given that in my experience in Darwin and Alice there are a lot of schools which would love a teacher librarian but have been unable to get one, this does not demonstrate any unwillingness on the part of principals. Additionally, there are some remote locations which have joint use libraries staffed and supported by the NT Library, so no teacher-librarians but still well resourced libraries. So, if the NT stats in these papers are representative of how useful the other figures are I would suggest that there is a bit of a problem with what the data is claimed to prove.<br />
<br />
That leads me to my post title "Are we selling buggy whips". It is a tired old analogy online but I am now wondering why so many principals are just looking for an opening to toss teacher librarians into the dustbin. I have blogged earlier about the continued episodes on the teacher librarian e-list where members are unable to work out how to unsubscribe. If this is in any way indicative of a percentage of teacher-librarians I can imagine that a principal might be more than happy to give em the ol' heave ho and replace them with someone who is aware of which century this is.<br />
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My thought would be, that a better use of our time would be to make sure that all those who wear the badge of teacher librarian are capable of garnering the respect of their principals. Once that is the case, I suspect that principals will see the value in their continued employment. But until that is the case, I suspect no amount of lobbying is going to improve the perception that some of us are frantically hanging onto our buggy whips and demanding some sort of government mandated whip quota.<br />
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(this post was whipped of in too little time to think it through properly but because I just realised it was June and I am thinking I might try the blog every day of June thing so missing day 1 would be a bad start).ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-77993995095737116672012-04-23T18:26:00.001+09:302012-04-23T18:28:30.725+09:30You have exceeded the space for this text box. Some data will be lost.Or, so I was told by ACER (the Australian Council for Educational Research) when I tried to answer one of their surveys. How can you have an "any additional information you would like to add" box which fits only a paragraph? What if I wish to send you my manifesto? Well....<br />
I have written about it before (I am sure) but here is my latest think on internet safety and security in schools. ACER, you could have had the whole lot if you wanted it. Instead I give it to the world (well, that tiny fraction of the world who will read my blog anyway).<br />
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Filtering software gives a false sense of security to school
staff, leading to teachers believing they have no role to play in ensuring
students are appropriate in their net use. Additionally, legitimate sites are
often caught up in the filtering net (ie, a filter which blocks facebook can
also block cyber safety sites which reference facebook or newspapers who use a
facebook plugin to manage comments). Likewise, the common ban on youtube
prevents teachers using a myriad of relevant content and leads to situations
where tech-savvy teachers are bypassing set terms of service and copyright
restrictions in order to be able to access the most useful resources for their
classes.</div>
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Cyber bullying is also treated in an disjointed manner as if
it is somehow disconnected from bullying in the schoolyard. Responses are also driven
by paranoia rather than in a rational, considered way. As such social networks
are banned meaning that responsible use can be neither taught nor modelled. A
ban on facebook due to cyberbullying is like digging up the football field due
to a lunch time fight, yet too often this overreaction is not questioned.
Additionally, some schools seem to be taking on an online policing role and
assuming responsibility for things which happen out of school hours. This sort
of thing oversteps the mark in terms of a schools duty of care and of their
sphere of influence. In the same way that a school is not responsible for a
fight on a football field on a Saturday morning, nor should they be accepting
any responsibility for a Skype chat between 2 students at 7pm on their own
computers. While there may be a role in ensuring these students are able to
deal with each other the following school day, this should not be by way of
playing web detective.</div>
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Likewise, bans that exist in some jurisdictions, prohibiting
facebook contact between students and teachers, only serve to prevent teachers
using new media as a teaching and learning tool. Why this should be prohibited
but contact by email (or other social media) is not only permissible but often
encouraged is bizarre. Teachers should certainly be aware of their own digital
footprint and what information students can find out about them but a blanket
ban prevents teachers demonstrating good online citizenship to their classes.</div>
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The paranoid manner stranger danger online is spoken about,
leads to unwarranted fear amongst some children. A sane view of the facts would
demonstrate that (as has always been the case) it is not strangers that our
children need to fear. Rather, most abuse is suffered at the hands of those who
they know and who should be looking after them.</div>
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Any discussion with students on the dangers of abuse,
bullying or stalking should not separate the digital world from the rest of the
world and act like there is not a solid connection between the two. However,
too often this is the way these issues are managed. One cannot be raped nor
murdered on facebook. If a student accepts an invitation to meet someone they
have met online, this is not a cyber issue it is a real world issue. In
Australia this has happened (to the best of my knowledge) once and that did not
involve facebook, myspace or any popular platform but on a chat room for people
who believe they are vampires. With this in mind the paranoid push to
cybersafety is barking up the wrong tree. We would be better focusing our
attention on mundane cyber issues such as password security and the potential
future damage drunken facebook photos could have on your career (if you don’t
learn how to use the privacy controls). </div>
</blockquote>ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-76900763228916666522012-04-12T01:39:00.003+09:302012-04-12T01:53:57.944+09:30Three blind mice, 1 blind societyThis question came to me over the interwebs...<br /><blockquote>I had a question from one of my staff this morning, she was told (by a parent during storytime) that she was not allowed to sing 3 blind mice with the children any more as it was not politically correct to say 'blind' and it was also wrong to scare children with threats of a carving knife. I have not heard of this before and was wondering if it is indeed true. She was also told not to sing Baa Baa Black sheep because of the word 'black'...<br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> </blockquote><span lang="EN-GB">I love it when these sort of things come up. And by <span style="font-weight: bold;">love </span>I mean <span style="font-weight: bold;">get exasperated beyond belief</span>.</span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have always used the gruesome versions of stories and had a lot of fun with them. So my red riding hood puppet shows had grandma eaten by the wolf and the wolf in turn killed by an axe-wielding woodsman. That said, I was not always a traditionalist. My Goldilocks often ended with Goldie doing a five year stretch in Long Bay for break and enter (yes, I did read a bit of Dahl when I was younger, why do you ask?).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I would encourage people to do the same because if we all refuse to bow down before idiots then they are less likely to think they are in charge of the world.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">To answer this particular case;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is not politically incorrect to say blind. You can check with the <a href="http://www.rsb.org.au/">Royal <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a></span><a href="http://www.rsb.org.au/"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Society for the </span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.rsb.org.au/">Blind</a> </span>if you are in doubt. All the blind people I have known have been well aware they are blind and don't need to be protected from this 'awful truth'. Plus, despite their lack of vision, none of them were ever confused about their humanity. They were well aware they were not mice. Yes, the song does not threaten children with knives (again, unless the child has some specific body dysmorphia and believes they are a mouse).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">As for the added insanity of a black sheep being a racist issue...</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The stupidity it burns.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Black sheep were unwanted because their wool could not be dyed. The expression has no racist connections at all (unless we choose to invent some of our own now). I believe (although I can't find the evidence right now) that this is a case of parody being reinvented as reality. It was one of those stupid ultra right wing chain emails bemoaning a ban on the rhyme which had in fact never happened. But somewhere along the lines people started to believe it and now you actually have morons who are too scared to use the rhyme.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">My advice would be, keep singing it and if anyone complains ridicule them remorselessly. If we all manage to do this perhaps (being as we work with children) we may have a hand in making sure that this stupid lack of critical thinking is not passed onto the next generation?</span></p>ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-42655078646075444502012-03-16T10:42:00.006+10:302012-03-16T13:06:02.246+10:30A teacher librarian social conversation<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheruHLSK14otsA0M6VNQdj7WaScBelh8VUl3cF83fO4qBrGPQauizHmrpX1WUQ4N2fbMUnKXV-YasdSJMeQwULZX-jaLe1bOoGQ1IeRsw9UqH2R_ty4KDmF1sltM77xKzoMX2KqA/s1600/bored_teacher.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheruHLSK14otsA0M6VNQdj7WaScBelh8VUl3cF83fO4qBrGPQauizHmrpX1WUQ4N2fbMUnKXV-YasdSJMeQwULZX-jaLe1bOoGQ1IeRsw9UqH2R_ty4KDmF1sltM77xKzoMX2KqA/s320/bored_teacher.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720291671277869282" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.csu.edu.au/cstl/oztl_net/">OZTL </a>was having a nice chat about Social Media the other day and, as I often find, there were some nicely hidebound folk who were happy to shout out about why we shouldn't. (oh, and sic. In fact, fully sic).<br /><blockquote>Teachers "befriending" students on-line is a bumpy road leading to a crash. A treacher should be friendly and approachable but never friends or approached. This has always been the case, no matter what the method of cxommunication. "Social Networking" still contains the word "Social"...</blockquote>or<br /><blockquote>...I personally have reservations about invading students' personal and<br />social spaces. It has always smacked of the business or marketing push<br />that is prevalent in education today - ie get at them 24/7 in as many<br />spaces/ways as you can...</blockquote>and<br /><blockquote>...ensure that any communications with students outside the school environment must be totally open and observed. Was it not Caesar who said,"Caersar's wife must not only be fault, she must be seen to be without fault."...</blockquote><br />So I wrote a reply (less snarky than some I send to the list, but really guys. I snark because I love). Following my reply I got...<br /><blockquote>Love your recent post on OZ_TL net on social media policy. If it was a blog post I could share it with my students...</blockquote>Oh, you could? Well, I am nothing if not a servant of the people. So here it is.<br /><br />Social media is a tool being used by the current generation of students. They will talk homework (amongst other things) online of an evening. It seems to me therefore that there are many benefits to teachers (and librarians) being linked in to this network.<br />Certainly when I was a uni librarian I didn't mind being friends with students and I would occasionally have a question pop up of an evening when I was online (sometimes I would ignore it, hell it was my time, other times I would take the moment to pass on an appropriate link or a research suggestion).<br /><br />In a school, yes there is the possibility that things might get a bit fraught. But, how can we promote the idea of responsible digital citizenship if we isolate ourselves from that world? So...<br />where you are not prevented by rules and regulations from doing so, I would say...<br />go for it! Be a fb friend, but... keep your personal and professional separate. Lock down your personal page so students can not see you sleeping face down in your own vomit during uni O-Week (not a hard task). Then, create a 'fan' style page. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>pages/create.php</a><br />A fan style page, will let you connect online with your students while creating a level of buffer between you and their full online life.<br /><br />There are several ways you could do this. Market yourself as a public figure or perhaps create a page for each class (or year) so you link your students together. That way they can (if they wish) do some of their after school "what were we doing with the French verbs" discussions in this public space. That allows you to watch (and spot the areas where you are not giving adequate instruction. Well, if none of the kids knew what you meant, whose fault is it?). It also allows you to pop in and redirect the discussion a bit (if you, like me are online much too often and have a surfeit of opinions).<br /><br />Being online and visible should also make it easier for a school to monitor the "<i>St <span lang="es"><span>Mujer Barbuda</span></span> Preparitory Scool Sux</i>" or "<i>Ms Pfaffernaff is the wurst english teacher ever</i>" groups which may spring up from time to time. It could make students less likely to create those groups (fb is suddenly somewhere there may be teachers) and it certainly makes it more likely students may let you know such groups exist.<br /><br />For those of you who feel facebook is automatically 'fraught' let me ask you to imagine being a teacher in a country town. Population, mmm, lets say 1300 people. In this environment, do we expect the teacher to avoid social interaction with students? No, we don't, we accept (often hope) that the teacher will be playing on the same football team as the older year 12 boys. We know that the teachers will see the students out and about, attend the same churches and sometimes the same dinners. Down at the pub, the teachers will be drinking in the front bar, while the students are playing pool in the back bar and from time to time, they may even talk to each other. To some degree, fb is forcing us all to move into a modern version of that country town.<br /><br />For centuries, teachers and students have managed to live like this, it is really a very recent thing to have teachers and students living completely apart other than during the school day (and, to my mind, it is a bit of a symptom of a modernist malaise). As a student, I am glad I grew up in a town where I saw my teachers down the pub of an evening (and sometimes for a counter lunch). I am glad I was friends with their kids (and went to parties in their houses). Now I work in a school, I am glad that when I am at rugby training there are kids from my school training with our juniors. I am not exactly glad, but in a strange way thankful for the rugby game when I kicked our school captain in the face (he was diving for the ball as I was trying to kick it). Not <span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">just</span> because I kicked the opposition halfback in the face, but because it was an amusing way to meet his father. Only recently I attended the funeral of that same father, a sad occasion but I was one of about 15 current and former staff there all of whom would tell you that it is possible to be a friend without degrading the student/teacher relationship.<br /><br />An online relationship is not even a small percentage of the interaction you have with students if you live in a small town (or even a small city). But, to dismiss it out of hand because of some notion that we should not be friends with our students seems bizarre to me. Especially when, with a few digital twists of the wrist, we can make sure that our online interaction is "totally open and observed".<br /><br />And, to finish off...<br />a nice <a href="http://www.mindflash.com/blog/2012/03/infographic-how-to-train-your-employees-to-handle-your-social-media/?view=mindflashgraphic">infographic </a>on what your staff should know about social media (from a corporate perspective, but still worth some consideration).ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-63011719309103939602012-02-21T13:29:00.005+10:302012-02-21T14:50:45.483+10:30Are all Education faculties insane?In my academic librarian life I had a great relationship with the head of our Education faculty. He was insane (but in a good way, you know, like I am). But, now that I am actually working towards my own dip ed (actually a graduate diploma of teaching and learning) I am coming to realise that many people working educating our educators are the less happy kind of insane. The, brain damaged from breathing the rarefied air high in my ivory tower, kind of insane.<br /><br />I mentioned in my last post, that I had a textbook tell me that ALL aboriginal parents wanted their children to learn. ALL? Seriously, you couldn't say ALL about any group of parents. Some parents have been known to chain their kids in basements, some parents have been known to leave their kids in hot cars outside Casinos. It strikes me as a bizarre form of racism (with a heavy helping of white guilt?) to suggest that indigenous Australians are immune from being shitty parents.<br /><br />The other wonderful quote that really set my head to spinning was on the subject of 'socio-economic differences'. To paraphrase, our textbook explained that; at one time people thought they could judge the outcomes of schools based on their socio-economic mix, but now we <span style="font-weight: bold;">no longer blame the victim</span>. Seriously? Lets look at NAPLAN scores (if we may). Now, if we overlay a graph of median income over a graph of school NAPLAN scores, what will we find?<br />We will find that they are damned close to identical! Why do we need to deny the bleeding obvious? How is acknowledging that the kids of Doctors and Barristers living in Woollahra will perform better by many measures than the kids of truck drivers and factory workers from Elizabeth 'blaming the victim'?<br />Surely, what it is doing is showing us where additional resources need to be provided? The Gonski Report (put out in the last day or two) certainly seems to think that school funding should be higher in areas of social disadvantage.<br /><br />Seriously, this seems like political correctness for the sake of political correctness. No one is being protected by this view, so why not admit the truth? And, how is acknowledging facts in any fashion laying blame?<br /><br />If I was only dealing with ivory tower idiots who have wonderful 'theories' about education, well I would ignore their silly diagrams (which claim to represent education) and just get on with acting like the echo chamber they want to hear, but it is not just that<br />(as further blog introspection may reveal).ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-6571638724350065852012-01-29T14:44:00.005+10:302012-01-29T15:24:27.302+10:30A new rambling diatribe (and a new reason to blog?)Where have I been? Well...<br />I have been being a librarian, working out how a school library works and how I think I could make one work better. I have been finding out about the variations on office politics you get in an environment where post-grad qualifications are the norm and everyone values their independence. Not to mention, the fact that schools are one of the last bastions of management by seniority (not that I am a fan of management as a separate discipline - as I have mentioned before (and some time later I may search for it and link to it here)).<br /><br />But, that isn't the point of this post. This post is to announce the resumption of posting (I hope) because, work is paying for me to get a Dip Ed. Yep, my old management masters is still on the back burner (no need for that in this role) . And, while I have no real intention of being a classroom teacher, I think the Dip Ed will improve my skills for this job.<br /><br />I am half way through subject one (summer school) and as such I decided it was time to be medicated again. ADHD meds do not cross state lines, nor do Psychiatrist reports, prescriptions, or government authority numbers. So, when I got to Darwin (two years ago) I sought out a doctor with authority to prescribe and a psychiatrist to oversee the process. I failed. I saw several doctors and a psychiatrist but...<br />no one was willing. The psychiatrist said he didn't like ADHD meds, the doctors all said they didn't want the government authority as it was too much work (and once word got out they were inundated by druggies with dodgy diagnosis). So, for two years I have been unmedicated, it has certainly affected me at work. I am still good at my job, but (ignoring false humility) when I am properly focused I am brilliant. It hasn't been too bad though, exercise really helps and I have been keeping up the rugby. I was managing to train all year, first 15s, then 7s, then back to 15s. This year however I managed to destroy my knee in our grand final win. So, no 7s in the off season (in fact no exercise since August)<br />Well, having started the study, I decided to pop in and see educational support. They told me (what I already knew), being unmedicated at this point was not the best plan. They gave me a lead to the one psychiatrist in Darwin who deals with us adult ADHD folks, so I popped into the medical centre across the road at work and got an appointment for a random medico. I was only looking for a referral but, as luck would have it, stumbled upon a doctor who was willing to prescribe (and had the required government authority to do so).<br />Wow, right?<br /><br />Anyway, it was all good timing. Admittedly by the time I got to see the psych I had already had to do 50% of my assessments but I just used the traditional ADHD hyperfocused last minute (all nighter) writing method and I pulled it off. Not great marks, but hey I am not looking for anything better than a pass. The real good timing though, is that we have a new senior staff this year. New principal and 3 new assistant principals, so as of today I am on day 3 of remedication and feeling great. When I started at the school, I wrote a 3 year plan for the library, began a collection development policy, wrote a budget bid, gathered all the stats I could find on the system and started keeping records of library usage. No one looked at it, no one cared. No one wanted a budged bid, they told me what I was getting. No one cared how I spent it, there was only one budget line.<br /><br />The new principal, seems to be interested in my plans and ideas. I have been asked for budget bids, I have been asked for a business plan, I have been asked how he can improve the library, I have been told "if the library works the school will work"<br />Wow!<br />So, day 1 of my new meds I was up until 4am writing a business plan. A very detailed one, giving him background information, my vision, my ethos, my ideas for building the library, for improving space, building new collections.<br /><br />So, it may be time to blog again to:<br /><ul><li>give me a way to focus my ideas (I do that better with an audience)</li><li>give me somewhere to express my frustration with the academic world of school education. The jargon (which hides reality from parents)<br />The political correctness (one text was so politically correct it said "all Aboriginal parents want their children to learn" really? All? I am aware some people dismiss Aboriginal parents and student too easily, but NOT ALL parents give a shit about their kids' education be they aboriginal or otherwise).</li></ul> But, now it is time to get back to uni texts before printing and re-reading my business plan (after all, I was writing it at 4am so I may have been hallucinating and writing complete dross.ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-69208156829679295692010-11-03T17:18:00.002+10:302010-11-03T17:24:25.379+10:30unsubscribing from OZTL_NET : a complex 37 part process?<blockquote>It must be weeks since I have offended anyone on the oztl_net list by trying to be funny in a format without subtlety or a sarcasm font, so when I sent this email off I prefaced it with "please remember I am trying to be funny but, that many a true word has been said in jest".</blockquote><br /><br />I am scared,<br />scared about what those of us working in school libraries seem incapable of doing and this constant inability to unsubscribe from a basic e-list is one of the things which scares me. We are working in a field chock full of technological bells and whistles. We are the gatekeepers (or perhaps keymasters) of information retrieval. We should be guiding young people in strategies to help them find information hidden in the deep web.<br /><br />Yet some of us can't manage to type <span style="font-style: italic;">oztl_net unsubscribe</span> into Google?<br />Hell, this isn't the deep web, nor the hidden web. oztl_net is not hidden behind a pay wall. And as people on the list were discussing just a week or so ago, it is using very old (in web terms) technology.<br /><br />Why is it then, that people who are supposed to be able to find information for a living are unable, or unwilling, to type 20 characters into a google search box? Seriously, that is 120 characters less than a tweet. Some of you (judging by an earlier topic) are keying in call numbers longer than that.<br /><br />So, those of you thinking of unsubscribing from this list plese note, it isn't hard BUT if you can't work out how to do it for yourself, then you probably need the people on this list because I doubt your ability to deal with the IT component of a school library without the regular contributors here to help you.<br />I mean, you obviously need help not just in web searching, but also some help in managing that complex new technology 'email'.<br />(how difficult is it to set up a separate folder for all your oztl_net emails to drop into? Not very - really. Want to know how? Then use Google and do a search. If you can't work out how to find that information on Google then, please consider another career path because if the year three kids in your school are better at one of your key competencies that you are... well (do I need to finish that thought?)<br /><br />So, the last person who emailed "please unsubscribe me from the list" to EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE LIST! Well, I unsubscribed them. No, I am not a mod, or an admin (nor even a modmin). I am just; capable of using Google, capable of reading comprehension and then capable of following a 2 step process. And before I berated people for their inability to do such a simple task, I wanted to make sure it was really as simple as I had imagined every time I have read identical requests.<br /><br />you go to;<br />http://listserv.csu.edu.au/mailman/options/oztl_net/technophobe@library.school.edu.au<br />(where the email address at the end is yours rather than one I invented in order to mock you).<br />then you press 'unsubscribe'<br /><br />Seriously<br />That is it.<br /><br />You shouldn't need 2 degrees and a grad cert to be able to manage this.<br />And, if you are working in a school library and the process of finding this out is too hard for you, please, do me a favour. Don't ever accept a job at my kids' schools.ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-573147619614928622010-09-06T14:56:00.005+09:302010-09-06T16:38:02.547+09:30My (first) library camp reflections<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZLSC5Ezlx0A/TISSQDWu5qI/AAAAAAAAApA/ijz4gG12j_k/s1600/libCamp02.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZLSC5Ezlx0A/TISSQDWu5qI/AAAAAAAAApA/ijz4gG12j_k/s320/libCamp02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513692648284546722" border="0" /></a><br />OK,<br />no preabmble, no preperation and no first draft. I am about to write out what I am thinking now, a few days after the camp in a conf. Then I will press 'publish post' and go do some shelving.<br /><br />The library camp was the most fun I have had in a conference, and I think it was very productive too. We were not completely full (unlike some rooms on day 1) but we had a good core of participants and a significant number of other folk who were dropping in when there was nothing in the other streams which called to them. In fact, a drop in space for those who found a gap in their personal program was a big part of our original plan.<br /><br />Did I mention I had fun? I like to think that some other folk did too, there certainly seemed to be a buzz in the room almost all the time. I think that the participatory nature of a lot of what we decided to do helped with that. There was, most of the time, an opportunity to interrupt, interject and ask for clarification or re-direction. It was great having a lot of people willing to speak. Sure there were plenty sitting quietly, perhaps because that was what they wanted to do, perhaps because there were a few big personalities in the room (well, big for librarians anyway).<br />Still, the way things went, I believe that some of the less vocal audience members had the opportunity to speak. Certainly I tried during the sessions I facilitated to get everyone involved (even if it was just my obsession with getting people to divide themselves up into statistical groupings - who had a library job pre-graduation, pre-enrolment, not until after cap and gown...)<br /><br />There was always the opportunity for the breakout groups to come back to the whole camp and give a summary of their conversations. We also had a scanner set up to scan any notes they took, however that didn't happen (no one volunteered their notes) so I do feel like we lost a lot of what was done. I know it lives on in the brains of those who were there and some of them may well use the ideas generated for; succession planning, library training, environmental advocacy and other stuff which I will remember 30 seconds after I publish this post (but I am not coming back to edit it).<br /><br />Anyway, I hope some of the campers decide to turn their notes into blog posts or even a series of tweets as I would like to read more of what others got out of the time (and also what happened in the breakouts I couldn't attend due to my inability to perfect my cloning machine).<br /><br />The day the way ran was fantastic, live updates on the program wiki as we adapted and changed the program when topics came up (or died). The stream committee were a wonderfully fluid crew (and it was an absolute pleasure to work with them). We ducked, we weaved and we proved what we had been saying all along "it will work perfectly on the day". That said, for all that Snail and I are duck and weave on the day kinds of people, the whole planning and lead up work was held together admirably by Kate Davis, while Elizabeth Caplice and <span class="fn">Michelle DuBroy proved a </span>wonderful support crew. Adapting themselves to everything from chasing speakers and writing bios to taking photos, leading discussions and playing bouncer on the door.<br /><br />I won't mention any of the wonderful people who did lightning talks for us, nor those who sat on our pannel (their names are available on the conference program). I will also neglect to mention the names of the people who stood up and joined in to facilitate conversations, move furniture, direct traffic. I won't mention anyone by name because I wouldn't want to single out those I know when there were more than a few people whose names I didn't catch who were a big part of a successful day. Plus, I wouldn't want to forget someone's name.<br /><br />I think, I need to read someone else's view on how #aliaaccess #camp went, because as I sit here trying to write about it, I realise I was too far into the rabbit hole. Perhaps I need to think a while then try to write this again.<br />Still, in the meantime I will put this out for your reading pleasure (and with luck, some feedback of what Snail and I could do better next time. Because a mere day after the camp, we found ourselves both using the words 'next time' when talking about how we could have done things better).<br /><br />(photo: <span style="font-style: italic;">Breakout discussion at library camp</span> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happylibrarykat/">Katie Wiese</a>)ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-87342072151549505452010-09-02T13:08:00.003+09:302010-09-02T13:12:13.342+09:30Day one - after lunchHaving fun online, first conf for me where I have been twittering and on-site.<br />But, now I am looking at all the stuff I am going to have to sort through to find the librarycamp session 'hot' topics.<br /><br />Just sent out a tweet asking folk to add the #camp hash tag as well as the #aliaaccess and your session tag. But where else should I be looking for content? Is it all twitter this time round or are others liveblogging?ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670596.post-15401708934665061902010-09-02T11:44:00.002+09:302010-09-02T12:11:43.828+09:30ALIA Access day one part one session one part one one oneWoke up to slightly hazy views of the river feeling relaxed and happy. A couple of ciders last night followed by an early night meant I bounded out of bed while Disney style forest creatures frolicked around me. Together we sang a little song as I had my shower. Then it was onto the notebook to check the ALIAAccess hashtag and feel the community waking up.<br />However, no disney movie is without drama and just as Bambi watched his mother die from the hunter's bullet...<br />Well, you see my notebook is still on Darwin time.<br /><br />Oh well,<br />I arrived at the venue a touch later than I had intended and decided to sneak into the first session.<br /><br />Conference people,<br />organisers<br />committee types<br /><br />Why, would the door to a session open up NEXT TO THE LECTURN?<br />Now, before anyone suggests that this is a problem for ADHD boy alone, let me assure you that I was not a lone soldier in this. As I was walking toward the room I saw others sliding into the doors of the different rooms. (edit, most of the rooms enter at the back and the one I went into did have a back door, just the signage was on the front door)<br /><br />As luck would have it, I arrived just as the speaker was asking questions of the audience so the attention of those in the room was not directed forward with the gaze of 100 disapproving suns. However, as it turned out the session was full. Every seat was taken and the latecomers were lined up along a 'wall of shame'. I decided I did not need to be on a wall of shame (and did not want to stand until morning tea time). So slunk straight back out to go buy myself some poached eggs and a latte.<br /><br />Then it was a bit of networking, some time with the co-op folk seeing what they can do for me in terms of acquisitions and into the next session. Where I sat for a while wondering why the hell I chose that session. Realisation dawned, someone had mentioned errors in our personalised timetables on our ID badges. Once again I slipped out of a session and off to the secretariat to get an accurate printout. Feeling quite happy that I was supposed to be in a session with a back door.<br /><br />Had some good sessions then, listening to TAFE things which will trickle down to secondary while simultaneously following the new grads' session via twitter. Wireless (free) and twitter are improving my conference experience significantly.ADHD Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161222584844304238noreply@blogger.com0