On Saturday I almost didn’t have a pleasant dinner with Bruce and Joanna. This was because they moved house about six months ago, the implications of which did not fully dawn on me until after I had already knocked on the door of their old house and got no response. It is important to remember that when people move to a new house, they generally don’t leave copies at the old house.
Fortunately, Bruce and Joanna knew me well enough to drive around to the old house and remind me.
Over dinner, it transpired that Bruce and I are both looking for work at Ultralab. And we had both got as far as taking in a CV and saying that we’d very much like to work there. Which is all very well, but we would need a project to work on, and they don’t have a lot of projects running yet. So Bruce and I decided to go back to them with our own research programme, and we spent the rest of the evening brainstorming.
The upshot is that we have what I think is a very viable and worthwhile project that should be exactly the sort of thing Ultralab is looking for, and which neither of us could do on our own. It will look at developing an easy to use database-driven system for tracking student progress that will allow each student to pursue an individually tailored programme with minimal workload for the teacher, and linking it to assessment standards so that the students come out with nationally-recognised results at the end. Bruce will do most of the programming work, and I will provide the educational expertise and the ability to trial the system.
It’s all very exciting.
You can’t deny that to fall through the endless sky with arms open wide to the emptiness on every side… would be quite a ride
Music: Glide, Chris Knox