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    Posted by: weebecka 05/02/2011 at 10:49
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    Karvol:
    Either way Weebecka - if I was hypothetically refering to you, which I wasn't ( hypothetically ), the comment made no reference to anyone's teaching ability. I have my views on your teaching and you have your views on mine. No point going over something again which has been raked over far too often anyway.

    Actually Karvol - I don't feel like I know a great deal about your teaching and I'm really interested to hear more.  As you know I teach enriched A-level to first year degree standard at the minute so you've got exactly the kind of experience I'm interested to listen to.

    If there are threads from before I joined the forum that you think I would be interested in could you point me to them?
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    Posted by: CarrieV 05/02/2011 at 10:49
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    weebecka:
    Due to the way I taught and the classes I now teach I have more insight than most

     Oooer, get you!

     

    weebecka:
    and am, as I said, genuinely interested to listen

     

    chokes over bacon sandwich and splutters onto keyboard!
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    Posted by: DM 05/02/2011 at 10:53
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    weebecka:
    Bombay Sapphire and betamale - do make sure that you robustly provide the evidence to back up your claims.  It would look a little unprofessional were you just to write disparaging letters which are apparently unfounded.  

    A number of people who have not engaged with you in any of these threads have told me they have contacted ATM to complain about you using this forum and others to bring this organisation into disrepute.   For every person who can be bothered to send an email, there must be many more who have been upset by your behaviour.   I would be extremely surprised if ATM consider your "contributions" so essential that they will be prepared to overlook the harm you cause indefinitely.
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    Posted by: curlygirly 05/02/2011 at 10:57
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    I don't think I've ever seen anyone hit the "career self destruct" button so many times on here.
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    Posted by: florapost 05/02/2011 at 11:14
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    weebecka:

    Florapost I have to confess that last time I chatted with Tony I was half cut and only semi knew who he was.  

    I started to talk to him about The Amidextrous Universe.  Oooops!

    Can you tell me a bit more about who Tony is and what he is so I can more clearly discern him from Martin (who sadly passed away recently) in my mind?

     

    and when you typed this?

    look - we all know who martin gardiner was - don't keep going on like it's some esoteric knowledge and what a clever girl you are to have heard of him so it's fine to confuse someone completely different with him

    as for tony - dm has this wonderful thing you can get folk to click on called 'let me google that for you' but i can never get it to work properly - so if you really need me to provide you with the link, here it is - i am (well, would be if it was anyone else) amazed that you are not aware of him given what your cv says you currently do

     http://www.mat.bham.ac.uk/staff/gardinerad.shtml

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    Posted by: bombaysapphire 05/02/2011 at 11:24
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    DM:

    weebecka:
    Bombay Sapphire and betamale - do make sure that you robustly provide the evidence to back up your claims.  It would look a little unprofessional were you just to write disparaging letters which are apparently unfounded.  

    A number of people who have not engaged with you in any of these threads have told me they have contacted ATM to complain about you using this forum and others to bring this organisation into disrepute.   For every person who can be bothered to send an email, there must be many more who have been upset by your behaviour.   I would be extremely surprised if ATM consider your "contributions" so essential that they will be prepared to overlook the harm you cause indefinitely.

    I think that the volume of complaints will provide plenty of robust evidence to back up my claims.

    If any further evidence is needed, what you post on here provides it.  Copies have been kept of some of the pulled threads but it appears that resorting to those will not be necessary as you provide further evidence nearly every time you post.
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    Posted by: weebecka 05/02/2011 at 12:03
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    florapost:

    look - we all know who martin gardiner was - don't keep going on like it's some esoteric knowledge and what a clever girl you are to have heard of him so it's fine to confuse someone completely different with him

    as for tony - dm has this wonderful thing you can get folk to click on called 'let me google that for you' but i can never get it to work properly - so if you really need me to provide you with the link, here it is - i am (well, would be if it was anyone else) amazed that you are not aware of him given what your cv says you currently do

     http://www.mat.bham.ac.uk/staff/gardinerad.shtml

    Oh florapost I was only decribing a funny situation.  That's all.  Nothing more than that.

    Yes that's definitely the guy I spoke to (the link doesn't work but the web address does).  But the page doesn't say much.   I hear so much about him and he certainly has some interesting views and I enjoyed talking to him.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/dr-tony-gardiner-the-fast-forward-maths-programme-is-crazy-933833.html

    for example,

    so I'm interested to hear more. 

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    Posted by: weebecka 05/02/2011 at 12:04
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    bombaysapphire:
    Copies have been kept of some of the pulled threads

    Yes - Autimuk must have access to the forum adminstration system to do that, mustn't he?

    I do wish he would just restore the threads.

    Oh sigh.Confused

     
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    Posted by: DM 05/02/2011 at 12:10
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    weebecka:

    bombaysapphire:
    Copies have been kept of some of the pulled threads

    Yes - Autimuk must have access to the forum adminstration system to do that, mustn't he?

    I do wish he would just restore the threads.

    Oh sigh.Confused

    Another bizarre conspiracy theory to add to your collection?

    "Infamy!  Infamy!  They've all got it infamy!"
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    Posted by: valed 05/02/2011 at 12:11
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    Wow

     

    Weebecka-baiting reaches new heights!

    Cuckoos are best left alone, you know!
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