Me and my profession
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.
Specialties:
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!
Citroen has released pictures of its new luxury small car, the DS3, ahead of the car's public debut at the Frankfurt motor show. By RICHARD BLACKBURN.
The new Citroen DS3, funky, masculine and traditionally Citroen!
Yes, I think I will want one!
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- By Scott Thill
September 18, 2009 |
Blurring the boundary between sci-fi and documentary, Franny Armstrong’s The Age of Stupid peers back in time from a climate crisis-wracked 2055 to lament our current inaction on the mother of all conflicts: The war on terra. The film premieres globally on Monday.
“We’re not at war at the moment,” explains Piers Guy, a British wind-farm developer who serves as one of The Age of Stupid’s compelling subjects. “But if people actually recognized the full implications of what’s happening to us, they would be treating it like a war.”
Armstrong’s docu-film isn’t shy about examining those implications. Beginning with the Big Bang, The Age of Stupid’s evocative CGI hurls toward 2055 at light-speed, only to find Earth’s once-mighty metropoles annihilated. From a drowned London to a buried Las Vegas and a burning Sydney, its dystopian imagery conjures up disturbing visions of humanity and hyperconsumption gone seriously awry.
London drowns and Sydney burns in The Age of Stupid's destabilizing dystopia. All images courtesy Spanner Films
Well, it might be a bit of hogwash - do we really think London will be flooded and Sydney burning in 2055? Seriously?? This movie - come - docudrama (errk!) really is just about putting fear into the voters so that their Governments react according to our Enviro-Economists in Copenhagen.
But since the special effects and CGI are meant to be awesome - why the hell not! Read more at wired.com's reviews section.
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