<div dir="ltr">You know that we - the usual suspects - have been predictably bellowing, stamping and raising dust during the annual post-exam mania.<div><br></div><div>But every so often I hear cheeps (usually off-list) from tentative newcomers with very real and valuable contributions to the debates that we thick-skinned bulls are thrashing out noisily on the savanna.</div><div><br></div><div>[Analogy dying, the author struggles on through the tall, dry metaphorical grasses of the Serengeti...]</div><div><br></div><div>We here at the ITA Edulist would be delighted if more lurkers and sensitive souls with creative insight would contribute to this exam thread, or other ITA discussions in the future.</div><div><br></div><div>We promise we won't laugh at you or make you embarrassed. We have a rigorous "Rainbows and Unicorns" protocol that makes all contributions welcome and supported.</div><div><br></div><div>So please gird the loins, draft and craft your posts (I spend anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes editing a particularly dumb post; much less time on a good one) and send them in.</div><div><br></div><div>As we old bulls die off... </div><div><br></div><div><font size="1">[ I know *I* don't have much time left, what with heart surgery, a love of red wine and bacon, a curious need to win Russian Roulette contests in the smoky back rooms of post-war Asian bars, and occasional difficulties differentiating left from right when travelling at high speed on freeways. But then, doesn't everyone? I know my old mum was just the same...] </font></div><div><br></div><div>(cough) </div><div><br></div><div>Sorry. Where was I? Right... as we old bulls fade away, we need fresh young contributors who have something new to say to get us out of our well-worn and dusty cognitive and pegagogical ruts. </div><div><br></div><div>Please: <b>somebody</b> stop me going on about evaluation criteria being developed during the design stage of the PSM. I bore MYSELF to death going on about that.</div><div><br></div><div>If you don't speak up on this list, here's what will happen... we'll just keep moaning about the same old things until someone does something we'll <b>all</b> regret.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not talking about a rifle in a clock tower. I mean something <i>far</i> worse ... there might be <b>another</b> debate about the misuse of Boolean fields for binary data.</div><div><br></div><div>O, the humanity. Please save yourselves. Save us all. Post soon.</div><div><br></div><div><font size="1">Already, I feel the stirrings of a rant coming on about VCAA ERDs that lack cardinality...</font></div><div><font size="1">Must resist. Must...</font></div><div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div>Immoderate moderator - ITA Edulist.</div><div><br></div><div><i>I love the sound of people's voices after they stop talking.</i></div><div><br></div><div><div>I, Mark Kelly, am entirely responsible for the offensive verbiage I spew forth.</div><div>Have I offended anyone with this post? I would not be surprised.</div><div>If offended, please whinge to me at the email address above. </div><div>Please leave poor Kevork alone. It is not his fault.</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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