"In my day, we didn't have all these fancy computer things. Printing was much simpler then." Blah blah blah. Yeah right. Today we can write, publish and distribute with one click. What could be simpler than that? Blog technology plus...
Blog: Content writing and content strategy insights
Consulting you about plain English school reports
Report cards in plain English: that's what New Zealand's Ministry of Education wants. This is part of a larger consultation about literacy and numeracy standards (here we go again). We love the emphasis on plain English reporting, as detailed in...
SFIA, SFIA, I just met a girl named SFIA
SFIA... lovely acronym, pronounced as in Sophia Loren. It stands for the Skills Framework for the Information Age. 10 things you should know about SFIA, as explained very clearly by Peter Leather. The NZCS will use SFIA for certificating ICT...
Twitter: the opposite extreme
OK, finally, two years after thinking about it, we're on Twitter. Find us on twitter.com/AliceandRachel Twittering or tweeting is mini-blogging, as they say, and in terms of length, tweets are the extreme opposite of the living-memoir kind of blog. One...
Blog as living memoir
Harvey McQueen is a dear friend, a former teacher and influencer of education policy, and a lifelong writer. His life is brutally confined and constrained now, as a result of a degenerative muscle disease. Very recently, in February, Harvey discovered...