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As a qualified educator, and educator of the educators, I am a communications expert; understanding how and why information delivery works and doesn't work. I have experience with technology and consider myself an information-futurist. I am a dreamer!

Now, enough of that wank and onto some more...I have been a teacher of modern English and literature, taught people the skills of learning, teaching and communicating. A can look at big and little pictures and advise on getting from point A to point B. I can read maps!

I am an excellent facilitator, negotiator and have, on many occasions in the past, presented to small and large groups alike. I am a talker!

My experience in commercial enterprise has helped me take a leap from the structure and politic of government back into the real world. I am a thinker!

But I am a teacher; was a teacher of skills and knowledge, and now, like most of us, just a teacher.

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Information and communication developer, reviewer and planner, advice on learning, elearning and services online. I see the past and dream the future. I can use smart and dumb tools. A sharer and a listener. A strategist and a dreamer. I can negotiate with people from all walks. I know where I am at and where you want to be. I can read maps!

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Leyland brother Mike dies aged 68 | The Daily Telegraph

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September 14, 2009 4:07PM

Aussie favourite ... Mike Leyland has died aged 68 Source: The Daily Telegraph

MIKE Leyland, one of the two legendary brothers whose quirky travel show ran for years on Australian television, has died at the age of 68.

His family announced that Mike died of complications of Parkinson's disease this morning.
Mike and Mal Leyland, explorers and documentary filmmakers, were best known for their television show Ask The Leyland Brothers.
The weekly show, which ran from 1976 to 1984, was watched by more than 2.5 million people at its peak.
It featured the brothers in unusual or far-flung places around Australia which viewers had asked them to visit.
Mike was eight and Mal was five when they migrated with their parents in 1950 from England to Newcastle in NSW, where Mike lived for the rest of his life.
Mike Leyland is survived by his wife Margie, his daughters Kerry, Sandy and Dawn, his stepdaughters Sarah and Alison, and seven grandchildren.

via dailytelegraph.com.au

There are some things that become a permanent part of your life. Growing up, one such thing for me, as a typical Aussie kid, was of course, the Leyland Brothers television show.

Its sad when the realisation that those who looked back at us from the television set for all those years are just as human as the rest of us.

Mike Leyland and his brother Mal may not have been everyone's favourite brothers, but they contributed so much to what makes our country what it is today.

RIP Mike.

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