• The Art of Conversation
  A summary of tips for conversational skills. Need to go through them to pick out useful ones for a lesson.
  Tags: form_time conversation notes

Pretty soon I’m going to grow a moustache. Not out of personal preference, but as part of Movember. For a month I’m going to be growing, trimming and tending an unsightly sprawl on my top lip in aid of prostate cancer. Dad announced about 2 years ago that he had it, a number family friends have it or have died of it, and Georgia’s father died of it. 1 in 11 UK men can expect to be diagnosed with it at sometime during their life. The moustache feels pretty trivial next to all that, but if anyone feels like donating to a worthy cause (the charity not the tache), I’d be hugely grateful.

If you are feeling generous, you can donate via me here or direct to the charity in the UK (or others worldwide).

Thanks.

October 25th 2008 | Comments(3) | Life on cancer charity moustaches

• Professional Development Reading List from Oxford’s Department of Education
  Pretty fulsome list.
  Tags: education to_read research teaching Oxford
• Blip.fm | What are you listening to?
  Lovechild of last.fm and twitter. Looks good. Thanks Dan
  Tags: twitter tools social mp3
• Open the Future: Super-Empowered Hopeful Individuals
  A leading fear for those of us looking at the longer-term implications of molecular manufacturing is the technology’s capacity to give small groups — or even individuals — enormous destructive capacity… In fact, some analysts consider this a problem we currently face, and give it the forbidding label of “super-empowered angry individuals.”

  Thinking about it for a moment, the question arises: Where are the “super-empowered hopeful individuals?”
  Tags: technology futurism optimism

• Nothing To See Here: Postman’s Park, London
  A quiet space in the City of London is remarkable, but Postman?s Park is unique. Round the corner from St Paul’s Cathedral …, it contains the Watts Memorial where people who were ordinary, yet extraordinary are remembered in a very beautiful way.
  Tags: london sights cemetery
• Huffduffer
  Create your own podcast.

  1. Find links to audio files on the Web.
  2. Huffduff the links?add them to your podcast.
  Tags: podcast mp3 blog aggregator audio social

From this interview:

“the human animal is a learning animal; we like to learn; we need to learn; we are good at it; we don’t need to be shown how or made to do it. What kills the processes are the people interfering with it or trying to regulate it or control it.”

• School of Life, Bloomsbury
  It may all sound like a big metaprank, but the school is perfectly sincere. The ambition is to offer a road map to a fuller life — secular and interior, not religious — toward which end a sense of humor helps. For reticent Britons, disinclined to emote in public, it’s a kind of lubricant.
  Tags: school life whimsy UK london curriculum