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Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer
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Any NP who feel up to posting a few brief encouragements will be much appreciated.
How's it going, Lydia? Are you doing a running total?I've just learned that Mavis Beacon is not a real person
You'd think that if you were going to invent a name, you wouldn't use Mavis, would you (I have a close family relative called Mavis, so feel able to make that joke!)Do it, zag. I'm told it takes 10 hours of deliberate learning to get the hang of it, and then after that you just get faster and more accurate because every time you type something it's more practice.
I learnt a few bits of typing at work when computers were introduced, using a computer programme, and then stopped. For a while, my typing continued to improve.
Since then it's gone steadily downhill and my typing now is really poor. It would help if I could consistently get my fingers over the correct keys to start with (yes, I know about the little ridges on F and J) ...0 -
German turned out to be unexpectedly useful, mind you and it was my favourite subject.
How did you end up using it?I was forced to learn German, as we had to choose one language for 'o' level and already realised I was bad in French. That was the one and only exam I ever failed. I can't do languages. Supposedly surprising for someone who can do maths, but I'm a one trick pony.
DS is like that - he's picked double maths for A-level but didn't do any languages for GCSE because he would have failed them if he had.If you are marking a mock exam, are you allowed to mock the pupils? It's a pain to do all this marking and I strongly believe that the teachers should be allowed to relieve the tedium with a fair bit of sarcasm.
The Y11 mock GCSE that my class have just sat was put together by a friend of mine in my department. He had to remove a few questions and put other ones in because at this stage of the course there are a few topics we haven't done yet. One question was fine, apart from part (c) which he replaced with the words "This question has been removed" because of the limited possibility of editing pdfs, which is the format we get the exam papers in. One of my students wrote in the answer space "But the answer lines haven't been." I found it when marking yesterday, and it made me smile. This morning, another of my department friends had an urgent message for me from the student in question, explaining what she'd done and begging me to understand that she hadn't meant to be rude and hoped I wouldn't take it the wrong way!
I do put a bit of a bite into some of my marking comments. Such as "Does this seem likely???" when the candidate has calculated the speed of the car as 0.000362 m/s or something like that.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
If you are marking a mock exam, are you allowed to mock the pupils?
When DS was a new Y7, just started at secondary school, he saw on the school calendar something called "mock exam results day" and was horrified - how could they be so cruel as to have a day set aside for mocking those who had done badly in their exams, he wondered?How's it going, Lydia? Are you doing a running total?
I did quite a lot last night (can't now remember exactly how much) and finished paper 1 last night. So that's 2/3 of it done. The students don't sit paper 2 until tomorrow just before lunch, so tonight I need to get done all the home stuff that I won't have time to do once I get my next pile of papers.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
How's it going, Lydia? Are you doing a running total?
You'd think that if you were going to invent a name, you wouldn't use Mavis, would you (I have a close family relative called Mavis, so feel able to make that joke!)
I learnt a few bits of typing at work when computers were introduced, using a computer programme, and then stopped. For a while, my typing continued to improve.
Since then it's gone steadily downhill and my typing now is really poor. It would help if I could consistently get my fingers over the correct keys to start with (yes, I know about the little ridges on F and J) ...
Well, I certainly didn't! Thanks for that :T0 -
You'd think that if you were going to invent a name, you wouldn't use Mavis, would you (I have a close family relative called Mavis, so feel able to make that joke!)
I do wonder. But to a foreigner the name may have no associations. I often wondered why the lead rebel android in Blade Runner would be called Roy Batty, a name I'd feel belonged more in Last of the Summer Wine or somesuch. There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Watching Great Canal Journeys - the actor chap Timothy West and wife Prunella Scales toddling about in a narrowboat. Tonight they were going up through Ireland and knew that his grandfather had been the first family actor and he knew his name and said he knew he came from there, but knew nothing else.
And, as they do these days, the programme took a trip up the genealogy route.
They took him on land at Enniskillen and they'd done his whole family background - as they keep the records there, so Timothy West had not ever been and looked into it before.
Turned out to come from a posh family and they'd been there for 400 years. He's done his tree before and had no idea about this lot. He's now about to land the boat and see his ancestral home - a big posh estate.
He's quite moved by the fact he's on a boat on a loch and had no idea his ancestors moved along that loch and lived there for hundreds of years.
He's been given a drawing of a fortified manor house - but it's now been transformed into a big Georgian house and he's going in.
The current house owners, a local Doctor, had done some background research on the land ownership. 1613 the Carltons moved there, 100 years later the Carlton daughter married a Richardson and they got the house and the family lived in that house until 1967.
Timothy West had known his grandfather was called Christopher William Carlton-Crowe, but didn't know that Carlton was a "real name", thought it was a made up stage name - the Carlton part turned out to be his mother's maiden name - and this branch of the family are the Carltons.0 -
Likewise - because I was deemed "academic" it precluded me from learning typing, sewing or cookery, all of which would have been a lot more useful later than most of the other things I learned.
German turned out to be unexpectedly useful, mind you and it was my favourite subject.
There wasn't a ban in our school, I did the optional science and language 'O' levels plus the office practice RSA and food and nutrition 'O' level (although you could only do that one if you were in the top sets, lower sets did home economics)
Josh chose to do cookery in his choices, they wouldn't let him as he was too bright, so they put him in business studies instead.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
UCL requires you to study a foreign language in every degree. Years ago (no decades ago) you had to learn Latin for Medicine and German for Chemistry.
Wales had a double GCSE in Geography in French where the French teachers had to learn to teach the Geography syllabus. A brilliant idea, except for the fact that there's a huge chunk of Science (including maths) in Geography, and it's not a given that everyone could teach it all.
There was also a double GCSE in Business Studies in Spanish. Understandable, as that was the language an international businessperson was most likely to meet if they didn't speak English.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
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