Jo,
I was going to recommend that you did this until I noticed that
applicants need to have teacher training. Perhaps when you finish your
course.
Penny

 
On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:47:03 +0100 "Ensor, Mary" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Dear All
>
> Our Note taking for Disabled Students in Higher Education Course accredited
> by LOCN can also be run in Scotland by going through the Middlesborough
> branch of NOCN. The phone number to ring is 0133 259 1071. Speak to Malcolm
> Carson for further information. I hope this will be useful to those of you
> in Scotland who are interested in our course.
>
> Our 4th Note taking Tutor Training day will be on Saturday 14th June.10 to
> 5pm in London. Cost £95.00 Email [log in to unmask] for the
> application form. Applicants need teacher training.
>
> We continue to run one week course for potential note takers each half term
> for those of you in the London region who need more trained note takers.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Mary Ensor
>
> (City Lit Centre for Deaf People wrote the course for a HEFCE project with
> Westminster University to increase the number of note takers available to
> disabled students)
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Terry Hart [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 07 April 2003 16:20
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Mind-mapping and brainstorming
> >
> > This idea of copyrighting something like mindmapping seems a great idea to
> > me.
> >
> > Do you think I am to late to patent breathing?.
> >
> > Terry Hart
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bernard Doherty [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Mon 07/04/2003 15:29
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Cc:
> > Subject: Re: Mind-mapping and brainstorming
> >
> >
> >
> > Great link, Iain, and taking us to the heart of di$ability $upport
> > i$$ue. 'Mental literacy': ROTF, as they say, LMAO. Personally, I see
> > Tony not just as the greatest living adviser on literacy but as a
> > guru
> > taking me to nirvana. After all, why would I want to waste hours of
> > my
> > life contemplating literature and teasing out subtle meanings when I
> > could be spud rudding manuals?
> >
> > Bernard
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:45:56 +0100 Iain Hood <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Mind-mapping might be hyphenated in some grammatically legitimate
> > > reality, but in the Buzan Centre it is not. Check out:
> > >
> > > http://www.buzancentre.com/trd_mrk.html
> > >
> > > I am definitely changing to 'thought showers', though, which,
> > using my
> > > powers of lateral thinking, I will associate with the idea
> > 'golden'.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Iain
> > >
> > >
> > > PS: whether these words, though I think it might be
> > 'brainstorming'
> > > that is actually objected to, are offensive to people who have
> > epilepsy
> > > is really for people with epilepsy to decide (not as a collective
> > but
> > > individually), so if someone said to me "Please don't use
> > > brainstorming, I have epilepsy and it offends me" I would take
> > what
> > > he or she was telling me on face value without (much) external
> > > validation. I'm more than willing to admit no one has ever said
> > that,
> > > but I have heard people object to 'fit' rather than 'seizure'. I
> > also
> > > have a sneaking suspicion that the original comment may be one of
> > those
> > > 'manhole cover' or 'mastercopy' urban myths, where the "gordon
> > bennett,
> > > you'll never guess what they're objecting to now!",
> > "PC-is-rubbish" mob
> > > suggest something has become verboten when it actually hasn't.
> > >
> > > Happy days!
> > >
> > > Iain
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 13:23:00 +0100 Bernard Doherty
> > > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Whether mind-mapping is copyrighted or not, it has a hyphen.
> > > > Otherwise, every time I said to someone, 'Would you mind mapping
> > > > previously uncharted territory of naked exploitation of people
> > with
> > > > learning difficulties?', I would have to pay Tony Buzan a fee.
> > Oh,
> > > > somehow that doesn't seem as incongruous as I first thought. In
> > the
> > > > meantime, as usual it is not so much whether people people can
> > lay
> > > > claim to legal title, more a question of whether they can find a
> > court
> > > > to support them. In this case, unless someone was specifically
> > > > referring to a product or a learning programme produced by
> > Buzan, I
> > > > doubt he'd have any luck. Both parts of the phrase were in
> > common use
> > > > before the one-man publishing phenomenon bestowed his gifts to
> > the
> > > > world (i.e., it's not like Kodak or Xerox). Just a view, as
> > usual.
> > > >
> > > > Regards, Bernard
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:25:14 +0100 Ian Webb <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Some years ago when I was up in Scotland the same was said to
> > me so I did some research. I
> > > > > could find no-one to sustain this argument. However Mind
> > mapping is a term that is used by
> > > > > Tony and Barry Buzan and I understand is their copyright.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ian
> > > > >
> > > > > Ian Webb MNADO
> > > > > Learning Support Adviser
> > > > >
> > > > > >>> [log in to unmask] 04/07/03 10:06am >>>
> > > > > Hi
> > > > >
> > > > > An FE colleague recently revealed that her institution
> > discouraged the
> > > > > use of the above terms - as they are regarded as non PC, the
> > reason
> > > > > being that they may gve offence to people with epilepsy.
> > > > >
> > > > > Apparently, though, it's okay to use 'spider-diagrams' and
> > 'thought
> > > > > showers' (gawd!).
> > > > >
> > > > > Perhaps I'm being insensitive but I find this level of
> > 'control' quite
> > > > > irritating and can't quite see how someone with epilepsy could
> > be
> > > > > disturbed by the terms.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any thoughts?
> > > > >
> > > > > Peter Hill
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > 01527 500324
> > > > > [log in to unmask]
> > > > > www.study-pro.com
> > > > >
> > > > > Dyslexia Consultancy and Resources
> > > >
> > > > ----------------------
> > > > Bernard Doherty
> > > > Student Adviser
> > > > ACCESS Centre
> > > > Anglia Polytechnic University
> > > >
> > > > Tel: 01223 363271 x2534
> > > > Fax: 01223 417730
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> > >
> > > ----------------------
> > > Iain Hood
> > > Senior Student Adviser, Learning Support
> > >
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > > Student Support Services
> > > Anglia Polytechnic University
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> > >
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> >
> > ----------------------
> > Bernard Doherty
> > Student Adviser
> > ACCESS Centre
> > Anglia Polytechnic University
> >
> > Tel: 01223 363271 x2534
> > Fax: 01223 417730
> > Minicom: 01223 576155
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> >
> >

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Penny Baldwin
Anglia Polytechnic University
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