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4b The Pre-summer vacation conversation

a chance to raise any issues before the schools break for summer holidays

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Dear All,

I thought this might be a good chance for anyone to raise any questions in here (no matter how small) just before the final bell rings and the school doors close for the summer vacation ?

I know only too well how everyone must be feeling as the last day approaches :-) I looked forward to it many many times and you'll all deserve a good break...so wherever you are going and whatever you will be doing please ''enjoy''

This summer vacation will be an excellent time to get the hard reading done for the critical litertaure review (a hugely important and integral part of your research work) We will be in here logging on and checking conversations and threads but take the time to enjoy classroom free weeks and get busy with the review - once done and out of the way we can all re-convene in Sept and then begin the exciting part of putting the research into place once your background reading and review is complete.

 

If there are any questions at this point please use the conversation below.

Have a great summer.

 

Hamish & Sue

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Can I make a plea ?

Posted by Hamish Scott-Brown at Jul 11, 2010 04:47 PM
can I ask please that everyone labels, titles and uses headers and footers in all correspondance with Dr Ian, Sue and myself please/

Once this is set up on all your documentation and submitted work it allows us to recognise who, what and when this work has been sent. I was reading through some plans passed on to me just recently and my own system is to save into directories - if the work has no name, student number and title in the header and footer.......for me personally it is almost impossible to know who it's from.
Its rather like collecting work in from the kids in class but without any recogniseable features - in school of course we can deduce by things like handwriting etc. markers however don't have that luxury and wont spend time to figure out who ar where they came from - simply cast them aside and mark them as 'unknown'

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep all your work organised by this simple rule.
Headers can contain student name (can be removed later for final submission as SID numbers are only needed for final submission)
Footers can be used effectively for labeling page numbers, group which you are in, plan or document name'

Here is a link if you are unsure of how to use headers and footers

http://office.microsoft.com[…]-to-bottom-HA010098572.aspx

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Posted by Hamish Scott-Brown at Jul 11, 2010 05:39 PM

For Hamish

Posted by Peter Lindsell at Jul 28, 2010 09:32 PM
Sorry these posts and the one for the professional autobiography happened just as I was going on holiday. I don't work in a school, although I have a lot to do with one - my wife's school!. The most importants thing to know about it, you will learn a great deal more about it later, is that it is INDEPENDENT and therefore we have just come back from our hols and I am now playing catchup! I will get there very soon!

For Hamish

Posted by Hamish Scott-Brown at Jul 30, 2010 09:11 AM
PLease don't wory about these Peter.....really.....these are merely milestone dates for everyone's benefit and a way of roughly marking 'the MA journey' with dates that enable a smooth timeline of events. I relaise that they might not fit exactly everyone's calendar but are there merely as assistance.
Hope your holiday in Cephalonia went well....I was there last in 1995 with an old girlfriend touring the islands on a Honda Africa twin. Beautiful island but the heat was a little too much in Aug.

For Hamish

Posted by Hamish Scott-Brown at Jul 30, 2010 09:11 AM
excuse the typos and spelling howlers :-)