Mundane News

[Andy in Germany]

Down to work today with my usual small group of misfits who don't fit our one size eduction system.
Only to be told we need you to take a maths class. Thought ok thinking be the bigger group of almost misfits.
No top set , year 11 good job Ive got higher qual maths and qual to teach. Double lesson too
They loved it i'm not like the academy staff i'm a way more relax, treat them as individuals. Planners on tables , powerpoint ect stuff that we had a ball not sure the head of dept approved bet you they remember it come exams though.

Good for you. And yes they'll remember it at exam time. They're probably telling their parents about it right now in fact.

I also have a lot of respect for anyone who can teach anything for two lessons straight on an hours notice; I need a good half hour just for a quick presentation.

As for the head of department, I generally take the attitude that if you're annoying someone in authority you're probably on the right track.

 

[postman]

. I now have the Christmas Box for postie,

Dear young lady. i am umbled nay umbled more than Uriah Heep.What can this poor old gentleman say.I am most grateful.

 

[tom73]

Sounds so much better than the dry, stodgy and uppity maths teachers I had at school.

Maths was so much more fun at uni when it was mixed up with all the interesting engineering stuff.

Like any subject make it fun and like magic it's interesting. I had same great teachers many old school but trained in the 60's liberal teaching training. So more open to most things. One of our chem teachers at uni was a total to the max eccentric a 1/4 Russian showed you all sorts one of the 1st things was how to make vodka stronger.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

u.So he goes ok i will take legal action against you

What for deciding not to sell to them after a few messages on FB. What planet is the guy on?

 

[Tenkaykev]

Like any subject make it fun and like magic it's interesting. I had same great teachers many old school but trained in the 60's liberal teaching training. So more open to most things. One of our chem teachers at uni was a total to the max eccentric a 1/4 Russian showed you all sorts one of the 1st things was how to make vodka stronger.

I went to "Summer School" at Bath University when I was studying with the OU back in the '80's. It was a "Fundamentals of Technology" course and one of the subjects was Mechanics. We got a few hours on stresses / strains / loads etc then we split into teams and had to build a span out of Balsa. Our various constructions were then subjected to progressive loads and the model that did best got a round of applause. What struck me was the lecturer was Australian and when he first walked in to the lab he was wearing two triangular half slices of toast dangling from his earlobes.

 

[tom73]

Good for you. And yes they'll remember it at exam time. They're probably telling their parents about it right now in fact.

I also have a lot of respect for anyone who can teach anything for two lessons straight on an hours notice; I need a good half hour just for a quick presentation.

As for the head of department, I generally take the attitude that if you're annoying someone in authority you're probably on the right track.

Our team annoy most high up TBO we do things differently the last few years it's so regimented so many rules it's plan potty.
Got told today don't forget toilet passers are purple this 1/2 term stuff that i'm not starting that game.
Partly I was lucky I often invigilate exams so know the papers pretty well they'd planned around a few so just went with it.
But in my own way the stuff got done just not to the plan.

 

[Jameshow]

Good for you. And yes they'll remember it at exam time. They're probably telling their parents about it right now in fact.

I also have a lot of respect for anyone who can teach anything for two lessons straight on an hours notice; I need a good half hour just for a quick presentation.

As for the head of department, I generally take the attitude that if you're annoying someone in authority you're probably on the right track.

Thanks for that last sentence... Missed an ad-hoc meeting with boss and finance director.... Perhaps I need to look for new job?!

 

[tom73]

I went to "Summer School" at Bath University when I was studying with the OU back in the '80's. It was a "Fundamentals of Technology" course and one of the subjects was Mechanics. We got a few hours on stresses / strains / loads etc then we split into teams and had to build a span out of Balsa. Our various constructions were then subjected to progressive loads and the model that did best got a round of applause. What struck me was the lecturer was Australian and when he first walked in to the lab he was wearing two triangular half slices of toast dangling from his earlobes.

That's the OU for you, summer schools are the stuff of Legends. They'd stopped most of them when I started so never got to go.

 

[Reynard]

Dear young lady. i am umbled nay umbled more than Uriah Heep.What can this poor old gentleman say.I am most grateful.

It's extreme range for the trebuchet, so there may be some breakages...

 

[oldwheels]

Never got out cycling again today as rain appeared so went for a brief walk instead.

MV Loch Frisa again missing sailings and this is about the third time no sailing because of a toilet problem. The boat came from a commuter route in Norway and probably the toilets were not used much there. Here there is generally a rush just before docking as for car drivers and passengers the next available ones will be quite a long way off and no guarantee they will be open anyway. Foot passengers have to rely on supermarket ones generally.

It is hoped my ear problems are simply caused by wax but I have an appointment next week anyway with an audio technician who checks for wax as a routine

 

[Andy in Germany]

Never got out cycling again today as rain appeared so went for a brief walk instead.

MV Loch Frisa again missing sailings and this is about the third time no sailing because of a toilet problem. The boat came from a commuter route in Norway and probably the toilets were not used much there. Here there is generally a rush just before docking as for car drivers and passengers the next available ones will be quite a long way off and no guarantee they will be open anyway. Foot passengers have to rely on supermarket ones generally.

It is hoped my ear problems are simply caused by wax but I have an appointment next week anyway with an audio technician who checks for wax as a routine

I remember when I first came to Germany the privvy on local trains was basically a hole under the seat with a pipe pointing down; you could see track passing when you flushed it.

 

[Reynard]

Like any subject make it fun and like magic it's interesting. I had same great teachers many old school but trained in the 60's liberal teaching training. So more open to most things. One of our chem teachers at uni was a total to the max eccentric a 1/4 Russian showed you all sorts one of the 1st things was how to make vodka stronger.

Oh yes, definitely. Even really chewy theory can be fun if you dress it up the right way.

I remember one lecture I had to do as a postgrad to fellow postgrads and final year mech students for whom the subject was relevant. In this case it was how composites react to a particular type of impact. I opened my speil with some actual footage of racing car impacts - including Alex Zanardi's accident at the Lausitzring. Quite a number of them went green at the gills as it was a pretty nasty smash, but I had everyone's attention for the remainder of the hour...

 

[Reynard]

I went to "Summer School" at Bath University when I was studying with the OU back in the '80's. It was a "Fundamentals of Technology" course and one of the subjects was Mechanics. We got a few hours on stresses / strains / loads etc then we split into teams and had to build a span out of Balsa. Our various constructions were then subjected to progressive loads and the model that did best got a round of applause. What struck me was the lecturer was Australian and when he first walked in to the lab he was wearing two triangular half slices of toast dangling from his earlobes.

Reminds me of the "building a bridge out of drinking straws" thing we did during our foundation year.

Our lecturer for that portion of the course was Welsh. No toast in evidence, however...

 

[Reynard]

Anyways, time for a and a chocolate biskit.

 

[oldwheels]

I remember when I first came to Germany the privvy on local trains was basically a hole under the seat with a pipe pointing down; you could see track passing when you flushed it.

I remember ones in the UK being like that. No idea when they changed.