Author Archives: thetravellingfellow
Idle thoughts on the train to Sydney
I have seen a few virtual schools now, and here is the train of thoughts I am going to bring with me to SIDE the school of Isolation and Distance Learning. For me personally Mr Brown my English teacher inspired me at school, other teachers never managed to hit the spot for me. I don’t …
In Canberra
For those of you who are still following the blog, thank you, at times I honestly feel that is an exercise in self –indulgence and while I am having an amazing time, a real adventure, I feel humbled that people are still reading what I am doing, so before I continue the travelogue about Canberra, …
Finigan
This blog entry is really only of interest to those of you who are interested in the potential of distance learning, those of you wanting to read the travelogue or the opionates rants or learn more about the Churchill fellowship, I would probably recommend you skip this entry. However If you are interested in virtual …
Good Morning Darling
In an earlier posting, I said that some blog entries are about my travels …purely as a visitor, some are about Churchill fellowship and some are about my observations and impressions of the educational research. Probably every entry has an element of singing the praises of a Churchill fellowship and in that sense, this is …
Response
According to the Institute of strategic studies, the league table for spending on defense across the world is USA Saudi China Russia India UK Although some figures have France in between UK and India If we look at the per capita spending, UK moves up to third place after Saudi and USA Using the same …
Rendevous in Sydney, Goodbye Melbourne
This is my last day in Melbourne, I had a fabulous day at VSV, I like to think I learned a lot, the programme organised by Mal McIver was about as perfect as it could get. OK so this is work, but we can enjoy work n this was a pretty good day. I have …
questions, rhetoric polemics and observations
Not a great picture, I know, I know, but this virtual school Victoria, the school for nearly 4000 students….now take a look at the (blurry) picture, go on take a close look and tell me what you notice? this is a school for 4000 students and there are no students in the photo. The school …
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Virtual School Victoria
I am going to write a fairly extensive section here, and will edit it as I go. This particular entry is almost entirely related to the research part of my Churchill Fellowship, so probably if you are not interested in the data I collected from teachers and students at this school, then come back a …
Getting your Tongue around it
OK so back to a story about school and education. I am neither a language teacher nor a polyglot but the promotion of teaching modern languages is something I feel passionately about. Whether we are talking about the various CLIL partner teachers I have worked with from Albacete, Montarnaud, Mielec or Pivka, whether it the …
A Churchill Fellow Down Under 