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patrick langford

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!

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Tired of the new metaphor already! Why not move-forward away from the silly rhetoric?

Julia Gillard PM announces the next election for August 21, 2010, and already, I am tired of the motor-vehicle-metaphor that forms the basis of the Labor party campaign.

"moving forward", "driving ahead", "looking ahead", "turning back with Abbott", "backwards looking", "looking forward"...blah blah blah.

It will become as tiresome as the former PM's "working-families" rhetoric of 2007/08 and 2009.

Please give it a rest. Please tell what your "real plans"! Perhaps its time for the Australian voter to "move forward" in a new direction?

Sylvestor