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plakboek

Pencil Metaphor

Jan 19, 2006 02:38

The pencil story was first mentioned to me by Lindy McKeown at the 2005 QSITE conference and I have been very fortunate to make good use of it at other workshops ( Read more... )

computers, metaphor, internet, technology, qsite, elearning, pencil

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missmargaret January 19 2006, 11:21:49 UTC

I like this metaphor ... unfortunately, there are too many "add ons" in our school :(

plakboek January 23 2006, 13:54:05 UTC

I think we have dead wood.

What I like about the metaphor is that it illustrated where you can best provide support. It is where you grip and hold a pencil, not just at the tip or at the very end.

The Pencil Metaphor kattekrab January 26 2006, 02:38:42 UTC

Thank you SOOOO much for A> telling me the pencil story last year, and B> finding it on the web so that I could refer to it in my presentation at the Linux.conf.au Education Mini-conference ( ... )