C.E. Jottings

Has The Time Come For Holistic Business Strategy in Conductive Education?

Some people I know (you don't need names) don't like "holistic" as a applied to conductive education. Indulge me a moment. SAHK have sought to apply conductive education to and embed it within their business model holistically, one might say, if by that we mean, the whole. "The Time Has Come For Holistic Business Strategy" says Brian Solis - now what could that possibly mean? You'll have to check the link yourself, as I'm not quite sure. I quite like... Read more →

World Congress live - well not quite. #WCCE

Just been up to my blog and am absolutely amazed to see how many visitor-places have been mapped in the past 24 hours - 317 - incredible. Does this show the demand for 'World Congress - Live!" news and pix? If so, I'm sorry that "Live from World Congress" is working out not even as well as the low expectation I had of my experiment. In case any one is interested in the experiment itself, though, this quick assessment: 1.... Read more →

First pic from #WCCE Hong Kong #Cond Ed

By way of seeing if I can, here's a first pic from the 7th World Congress of Conductive Education from here in Hong Kong - Pre-Congress Workshop 2, Andrew Sutton's presentation "Researching Conductive Education: Past and Future" on Sunday 5 December. The full text of Andrew's presentation can be found as his blog post "What I intended to say". I experimented with tweeting direct from the Workshop, using hashtags #WCCE and #CondEd - until the MacBook Pro became too uncomfortable... Read more →

Living with Cerebral Palsy in the Web2.0 Era

I've only just caught up with this great post back in mid-August from Glenda Watson Hyatt (@GlendaWH on twitter) Living with Cerebral Palsy in the Web2.0 Era. She begins her post: Three weeks ago today I had the pleasure of presenting with web accessibility consultant and speaker Tom Babinszki on the panel “Living with a Disability in the Web 2.0 Era” at the Plain Talk Conference held in Alexandria, Virginia." Glenda types at 10 words per minute with her left... Read more →

Top tips for reporting our impact #CondEd

With thanks to @NCVO on twitter: "Reading: Top tips for reporting your charity’s impact" "... a recent report from New Philanthropy Capital, Talking About Results, says that charities are much better at talking about what they do than why they do it and what it achieves ..." I've been trying recently to work out how Paces can make better coordinated use of social networking on the internet to reach out to parents and friends. I've also been pondering lately how... Read more →

Remembering Dr Hari

Andrew Sutton has published on his blog a post "Remember Maria" Reading it reminded me that in our meeting room at Paces Campus hangs a picture taken at the 1993 Sheffield Summer School. I took it down and scanned it in. Here it is: The Conductor on the left is Elizabeth Pappert. (Hello Elizabeth, wherever you are, from all of us in Sheffield.) My daughter Sarah is in the middle in the grey sweatshirt. Who is the conductor behind her?... Read more →

Changes afoot (2) - thinking it all afresh

As I continue experimenting with changes to this blog, I see that I first posted on May 30th 2007 - "For Starters". At lunch-time that day I was attended a meeting of OFFER (Sheffield's voluntary sector network) on the subject of child Poverty. There is no link to OFFER here as it ceased to exist through lack of funding from April this year. Things change. I wrote in that post that the new blog was to be a fresh start... Read more →

OpenData - now for charities like us. Hat-tip to @watfordgap

You may know that as well as Conductive Education I also have a passing interest in social networking, web2.0 and so on. I profess no expert knowledge, being merely an enthusiastic "dabbler" with, here and there, some understanding, fed by an active curiosity and an admiration for those who are the real creatives. My great thanks then to @WatfordGap (Paul Webster of NAVCA in Sheffield) for his Tweet that alerted me to the couple of links "not to lose" in... Read more →

Conductive Web

For some time now I have occasionally been adding to a website of links to blogs about conductive education and to blogs by parents who have some interest in or for conductive education. Do take a moment to visit "Conductive Web". If you have any comments or if you can recommend a link, please let me know. Read more →

Facebook CE2.0 Group and some social media tools - #CondEd

Just a reminder of the Facebook Group CE2.0 - "the interface between conductive education and Web2.0 I've added a post with a link to some useful tools for tracking conductive education across social networks on the internet. -------------------------- Nb #CondEd is the hashtag for conductive education for those on twitter. Read more →