Privacy diary – day two

As part of my work for Unit H807 from my MEd course with the Open University, I am keeping a privacy diary for a week. It appears I’ve had an irony bypass, because I’m publishing my privacy diary here. I wonder what I will discover?

I checked my bank statement and made some payments online, [...]

Privacy diary – day one

As part of my work for Unit H807 from my MEd course with the Open University, I am keeping a privacy diary for a week. It appears I’ve had an irony bypass, because I’m publishing my privacy diary here. I wonder what I will discover?

I thought this was going to be a quiet day [...]

By way of an introduction

I’ve reached the tricky overlapping stage where I have to work on two modules of my MEd at once. Plan A was to do one module at a time, but the two e-learning modules both run February-September and this is the final offering of H807 Innovations in eLearning, so it’s now or never. The first [...]

#ReasonsWhyIHateSchool

As an educator, when I saw that #ReasonsWhyIHateSchool was trending on Twitter, I clicked through to see what was being said.

It was a depressing experience. I was faced with an overwhelming number of Tweets, most of them filled with frustration and unhappiness. I haven’t made any attempt at a formal analysis, but I have picked [...]

The first rule of the teaching profession is: you do not talk about the teaching profession

 

Jim Docherty, assistant secretary of the Scottish Secondary Teachers Association, told BBC Scotland that teachers should follow his advice: "First thing is don’t bother telling anybody else about your social life. Nobody is interested about your social life and it doesn’t help.

"Secondly, never make any comment about your work, about your employer, about [...]