Some personal action research
A year or so back I had a vision of uploading all sorts of documents, contemporary and historical, to stand as 'supplements' to Conductive World. Had things gone well, there would have probably been dozens up there by now in Cyberspace (not just my own stuff but all of it unavailable by any other means).
Then I met Google Knol and, like others whom I know, gave up on it in screaming, carpet-chewing frustration. Maybe Goggle has got the formatting working properly now but I cannot face going back and trying again.
Perhaps the fault was mine all along, sheer computer incompetence.
Before he left for Mauritius Ben Foulder suggested that I try Scribd, and this afternoon I plucked up courage and had a go. I do have to say that my document went up easily enough at first.. Then, however, I altogether failed to find out how to edit the format on line (page ends mainly) and got myself into a terrible mess. I may or may not have got it up now – I can barely look – but what a footling waste of more than an hour's life. Why don't the Junior Einsteins who put such things together find staff capable of writing instructions that are anything but insultingly incompetent?
Again, probably my fault, though what am I doing, apologising, who's the customer?. I shall have another go (not immediately, however). Oh, how I hate being an autodidact, and how I wish for a good teacher/mentor in this. It does rather grant insight insight into the problems of learners and the crippling, demotivating force of frustration and failure.
A small thing but mine own
As a trial run I put together last week's postings on the problems of that the nightmare of 'special educational needs' present to the Conservative Party – and how the likely future Conservative Government might address these.
My proposal – for everybody's sake – is a Royal Commission.
Scribd permitting, my line of thinking that confirmed for me that nothing less will do, more than six thousand words of it, are now downloadable at
I shall doubtless return to this topic.
And now for something completely different
It does look that conductor-blogger Ben Foulger has gone to a far, far better place. Follow his adventures at:
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