Archive for the ‘Reflective’ Category

Fighting the good fight

Posted: 22nd January 2010 by Joseph in Reflective
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I’ve been fighting the good fight with the Teachers’ Alliance. I’ve made them a very pretty website and an ultra nice forum. Hopefully between us all we can create some positive change in education. I’m entirely happy with my role of web master; although I may need to add the title of editor to my [...]

The Camera and the Crown

Posted: 7th November 2009 by Joseph in Expository, Reflective
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Having read the Wikipedia entry on Zygmunt Bauman and one of his papers, “Alone Again: Ethics After Certainty”. I’ve been thinking about the camera. Bauman looks at the camera twice, firstly as the creator of still images, and then as the creator of moving images. He points to the still image as a cultural anchor, [...]

Becoming organised

Posted: 3rd November 2009 by Joseph in Reflective
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I have a love/hate relationship with chaos. I will openly and freely admit to enjoying the excitement of a last minute deadline, a dozen conflicting commands, or total technological failure. I will also admit that this is a sad and pitiful way to get one’s thrills. So I’m going to be more organised. Zen like [...]