[spoonshadowsymphony]

My first end of a semester as a teacher. Hats off to all the teachers there ever was.

[spoonshadowsymphony]

The half finished re-written draft of my first paper is the crappiest piece of writing there ever was. The only silver lining is that no matter what I do with it at this point it’ll be an improvement.

[sandersstudies]

I think a great way to improve communication with kids (and adults) is to make every yes or no question a this or that question.

I started doing it when after brain surgery my husband had trouble forming responses to questions for a while, and realized that the habit was helping my students engage more truthfully with me.

Some examples:

Yes/No: “Did you clean up your room like I told you?”

This/That: “Did you clean up already, or do you still need to do that?”

Yes/No: “Are you going to sit quietly?”

This/That: “Are you ready to sit and do our quiet activity, or do you need some time by yourself first?”

Yes/No: “Are you doing anything fun for your birthday?”

This/That: “Are you having a party on your birthday, or are you going to relax?”

I think many children (and adults!) are averse to telling adults “No,” especially when a command is implied. (“Did you clean your room?” “Are you going to sit quietly?” Hmmm if I say ‘no’ I will be in trouble with the adult.) So they are actually pretty likely to just lie and say what they think you want to hear.

Presenting a this or that question provides an alternative to lying, a ‘no, but’ scenario where they are presented with the reasonable consequences of a No (“if you’re not ready to sit quietly, you cannot do our quiet activity with us yet.”)

[littlecozydoodles]

enjoying the view 🌼

prints

[embroiderycrafts]

Halloween decor is ready! by hypoglycemicwarewolf on reddit.

[spoonshadowsymphony]

Upon revision and closer inspection my first sub-study isn’t actually a qualitative study using summative content analysis at all - it’s a quantitative content analysis.

Funny, how the peer review was so brutal.

[spoonshadowsymphony]

Re-watching Edward Scissorhands as an adult was a strange experience - I realised that three different characters told him they “know a doctor that could help him”, but not one takes action to make that happen - not even after Edward comments on live TV that he’d like to explore that option. He was a robot inherently so switching what ever part instead of the scissors could have been an opportunity. All the people only took advantage of him and even the girl that claimed to love him never, not once went to see him after he returned to the mansion up the hill.

Went in for nostalgia, found commentary on humanity.

[craftingcreature]

Stitching is done on “can i lick it?”

Tonight I’ll wash it and finish it in the pretty wooden hoop.

[spoonshadowsymphony]

Here it came today, my first academic journal rejection as a single author.

[spoonshadowsymphony]

Anteeksi, mutta miten voi kuulla, että toisella on leipä kädessä? (Kuulija, eli Emilia on tässä kohtauksessa omassa sängyssään.)

[spoonshadowsymphony]

Last night I spent 9 PM to 4 AM in the emergency room with my son (he’s okay now). I texted my boss I’d come in late and managed to catch a few hours of sleep. I expected today to be a complete disaster.

Instead, I managed to grab a quick coffee and a sandwich on my way and deliver a half-day lecture to first-year students on poverty, disadvantage, and vulnerability — and it turned out to be the kind of lecture that really clicked.

The students really engaged and I remembered my key points. We talked about how heavy these topics are, how broken our systems may feel, and how discouraging it can be to face them. A couple of students felt safe enough to share personal stories. And we also found some hope and purpose - the reasons they chose this field, the ways they can help, and the difference they can make.

One student stayed to talk to me on the topic even between the lectures and I received several thank yous on their way out instead of regular odd byes.

I’ve had this feeling working as a social worker when I see that I have helped someone. I didn’t really expect to get it from teaching - and all that with only a few hours of sleep!

[little-english-corner]

как сказать ‘мне всё равно’ по-разному? есть несколько вариантов

I don’t care — мне всё равно (самый прямолинейный вариант; может звучать грубовато);

whatever — как угодно / да что угодно (тоже иногда может прозвучать не очень вежливо, но зависит от ситуации и интонации);

suit yourself — делай как хочешь;

makes no difference to me — никакой разницы для меня (самый нейтральный вариант)

есть ещё вариант I don’t mind, но у него несколько другое значение, хотя в каких-то ситуациях может переводиться так же. оно скорее означает ‘я не возражаю’, ‘я не против [что-то сделать]’

— can I open the window? (могу я открыть окно?) — I don’t mind (давай, я не возражаю)

[bobbole]

Jester Pepita, Dreaming of the Blue Tiger

[spoonshadowsymphony]

Btw I dropped one of my (non-PhD-related) writing projects just because there’s so much stuff on my plate that I can’t even. And now I’m planning a proposal to lead a working group in a research conference instead. Why can’t I just focus on doing the things I’m already doing?

[spoonshadowsymphony]

I had lunch today with a colleague from my past job. Love her to bits but I’m beginning to dread that I will have to go back there next year. It’s very uncertain that they could offer me another temp teaching position where I’m at currently. And if they will, it’s most likely a short term and in the worst case I’d be unemployed by the next summer.

[whimsy-and-prose-deactivated202]

As an online student, please god bring back criticizing people. Criticism isn't the same as being mean, it's just disagreeing with someone's ideas, pointing out flaws in their argument, and/or presenting (what you think to be) a better supported opinion. I am so so tired of seeing responses to discussion posts like "omg loved your response! such a great job!" and the OP is literally making moral justifications for slaughtering civilians in war.

It's even more annoying when the literal professor refuses to touch clearly/objectively wrong and/or harmful opinions being presented. Like, in an in-person setting that kind of stuff does not fly, and the professor and your fellow students are critical of you because one of the skills college is supposed to teach you is disagreement and conversation about a contested topic???

Just. Please god bring back criticizing your peers.

[yvanspijk]

What does it say in the image? It says minimum. Hard to read? Medieval scribes thought so too. That's why they invented the dot on the i. This way, you could at least see which strokes represented vowels - and that helped a lot.

For similar reasons, the letter j was invented. Two consecutive dotless ı's looked a lot like the letter u. A Middle Dutch word such as dııc ('dike') could be mistaken for duc ('often'). That's why the second ı was lengthened to ȷ: dıȷc.

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The letters ıı/ıȷ/ij originally represented the long ee sound as in English freeze, phonetically [iː]. However, in the 14th century, this sound started to become a diphthong in certain regions, initially close to what you hear in Cockney me: [ɪj]. Later, it became similar to English ay in may. In certain regions in The Netherlands and Flanders, it eventually became the diphthong heard in my.

Nowadays, ij is considered a digraph: two letters representing one sound. Some even insist it's one single letter (and they can be very vocal about it). At any rate, ij is always capitalised as a whole: ijs becomes IJs if it's the first word of a sentence. On signs like the one below, both letters are often put in the same box.