Jacqueline

I found a set of paper strips from last year today, so we'll make them next week too.

It's so lovely! I can hear the rustle.

a man with glasses and a mustache is covering his mouth ALT: a man with glasses and a mustache is covering his mouth

Hmmmm...
Gut feeling is to disagree on all three, so am also pondering.

Very impressive!
My classroom decoration has begun, with a skeleton draped in fairy lights and wearing a Santa hat & beard.

I'm even older. Not sharing. 😂

I know this may look like an ordinary bend in a suburban Belfast road; it's anything but.

At this time of year as you round this bend on your way home heading west, you can be met with the most glorious view of the golden sun, setting in a peachy sky that fades to deep blue.

It's magnificent.

It's amazing.
Also Shrinking.

I suppose this is an instance where you tailor your lessons to the learners, and I've done this enough times now in my context that I know it works there.

Every classroom is different.

Best Nails on Belmont Road.
The nail techs have zero interest in customer chat, which suited me fine yesterday 😁

Just worked out that if it first appeared in Vol 2 of the magazine, and the current volume is Vol 38....then I may have first encountered it when I was doing A-levels myself!

I've shared this before but always happy if it finds a new audience somewhere, and I hope the author would be too. It's pretty old but some students, particularly if they're linguists, love it.

It's just something I build in, and I do think it's worth the extra minute. Explaining poly- and di- and mono- when we do carbohydrates will absolutely help students when we get to proteins and nucleic acids.

This reminds me I need to restock the chocolate drawer in work for December.
Doing my bit for cognition 😁

I have found two places now that take walk-ins, one near work and one near home. Very handy!

I was getting tired of seeing them under my visualiser looking meh. 😂

Whom? 🤷‍♀️

That's quite clever, because it makes it look like she's the enlightened one.
You can see how someone is drawing these people in. But who?

Stopped getting nails done this year but felt festive yesterday. So now they look like red wine.

👏👏👏

There's a synthesis there, in the connectedness, that I think the memories are the foundation of.

I've to take big son to work but I will ponder!

True. I think it fundamentally invoves memory, but not memory alone.

Feels to me like more than memory alone. Proper learning includes an aspect of understanding and connecting.
I know that when my students have memorised the light dependent stage of photosynthesis and can reproduce the diagram, we're only half way there on the learning.

It's a curmudgeonly old thing that needs allowances made for it at every turn. Timetabler has to remember stuff that Nova can't be told. Can't cope with the modern ways of multiple part-time and flexible working patterns.

All of this is fine in humans, but not in software, in 2025 😂

Of all the spam emails i get, my favourites are from Exceptional Ron.

I can't watch this because, having grown up against a backdrop of a constant threat of violence, I know the long-term impact on the collective mental health of a community. You get on with your life, but it's not normal.

That this is taking place on such a large scale there is just unthinkable.

Not sure I've anywhere to go, he's always seemed pretty unique to me 😁

Mike Batt?

Good learning moment 😂

barack obama is sitting in a chair making a funny face with his hands in the air . ALT: barack obama is sitting in a chair making a funny face with his hands in the air .

Some people still flaunt it, but agree it's weird.
I'm embarrassed about the Microsoft thing I did, and can still picture a respected older colleague's face when I told her.

Although it's hit my household this week so I may fall.