Feeling a little more confident

by | Nov 24, 2013 | learner symbol

So, with a little help and deliberately going through the uncertain process again, I seem to be making progress. From previous experience though I know it’ll take several more successful attempts before I feel that I can do what I need to do without hesitation, and know what to do when I get stuck. When we’re working with children we say they are learning when ‘they know what to do when they don’t what to do’ and that’s what I’m aiming for now in myself. Interesting how that fairly trite phrase suddenly has more meaning.

A bold image of the learner symbol

A bold image of the learner symbol

A new post – the morning after

by | Nov 24, 2013 | memory, Uncategorized

This is how it's supposed to work

This is how it’s supposed to work

Learning is a funny business: you hear about something, make notes about it, try it out, talk about it, and then you close down the machine, go elsewhere, have a meal, watch Borgen, go to bed, wake up the next day  and try to remember what you learned the day before. Ah….Um…

On the second day of a two day course you are asked to start by using all the skills you learned yesterday.

Uploading the picture was the first challenge, needed help. So I’m trying that again. This portrait of Jane Austen was found on Wikimedia, downloaded and then inserted. This time I did it without help.

This was the only portrait, by her sister Cassandra

This was the only portrait, by her sister Cassandra

From old to new

by | Nov 23, 2013 | self-publishing

My old website on www.ruthsutton.co.uk looks impossibly clunky now, but there’s some good blog posts on it, so the current challenge is to lift some of that into a new glitzy WordPress ‘website’ that I’m trying to build.So far, no joy, but I’ll keep working on it.

Hopefully tomorrow at this Guardian masterclass we’ll learn how to post photos and video, which could be great if I can manage to do all that myself. Don’t want to have to rely on – and pay! – someone else to do those things for me. Only when I feel that the website reflects me without embarrassment will I feel happy to use it as a proper ‘author platform’. Is a bad website worse than no website at all? I suspect so.