Just keep swimming
by ed podesta • April 15, 2010 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
Phew! I did it! 5k, 200 lengths in 1 hour and 37 minutes – I take that to be about 28.5 secs per length on average.
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Kevin McKenna
by ed podesta • January 18, 2010 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
I just spent a very happy half hour reading some of Kevin McKenna’s contributions to the guardian. I agree with every word, it was a bit of a revelation. Take a look at the one about private schools. If it weren’t for Mr McKenna’s obvious talent and writing skill, I could have written that.
Read more →Ed, the christmas survivalist
by ed podesta • December 18, 2009 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
All I’m saying is that we should buy a frozen chicken and put it in the freezer, just in case it snows and we can’t get out of the house. That’s all. I don’t want to dig a bunker under the dining room, or buy a gun to ward off frozen zombie hordes. I...
Read more →The Voices of Newbury
by ed podesta • November 28, 2009 • Uncategorized • 2 Comments
The acceleration of time continues. I’ll be 36 in January, (I think, can’t actually remember it it’s that or 37). Anyway, I’m hurtling towards 40 at an increasing rate of knots. In keeping with this I seemed to have joined a choir for Christmas, and have recently spent two brilliant evenings meeting people and...
Read more →Leading in School (2)
by ed podesta • August 14, 2009 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
The last post about this was quite directly focused on the administration of OCR Nationals exams. This time, inspired by a comment on the last post from Andrew Field (of the excellent and venerable www.schoolhistory.co.uk), I’d like to think about the more generally applicable things I’ve learned from leading this team out of a...
Read more →Bleedin' Torigraph manages to raise my blood pressure again…
by ed podesta • August 1, 2009 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
in addition to which, it’s about to make me out myself as an occasional mumsneter. I note from a twitter post that the Telegraph leader writers are peddling myths about the good ol days of British education, claiming that an incoming Tory government, must implement reforms that rebuild the ladder of opportunity for gifted...
Read more →What stuck today…
by ed podesta • June 16, 2009 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
People who have no clear idea what they mean by information or why they should want so much of it are nonetheless prepared to believe that we live in an Information age, which makes every computer around us what the relics of the True Cross were in the Age of Faith: emblems of salvation....
Read more →Imposter Syndrome
by ed podesta • June 3, 2009 • Uncategorized • 1 Comment
This probably belongs in the middle class (now middle aged too) angst category. If there are any other anxious middle class professionals out there reading this stuff, you could let me know if you too sometimes feel ‘like an imposter’. It’s the constant niggle, the background fear that you’re about to be outed as,...
Read more →Facebook panic!
by ed podesta • April 14, 2009 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
The twitter-fuelled spread of the news of a research study that suggests that using facebook can lower your grades has inspired three types of response. The first – panic (and more panic), and the second – anecdotal (as can be seen from the ‘I use facebook and I’m alright comments to the panic responses),...
Read more →My report is done, this is what I used.
by ed podesta • April 5, 2009 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
So, on onedamnthing you can read my PGCIE assignment on the ideas that teachers bring with them when thinking about and using ICT for learning. The process of writing this piece was much easier that the last thing I wrote, almost two years ago for the Oxford diploma on ITT Mentoring. This was partly...
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