Conductive World
USERS' MANUAL
Conductive World: the ezine
News, analysis, reference, advice
Conductive World updates you on the fast-changing world of Conductive Education. It connects you with what others are doing, their triumphs and disappointments, and provides critical comment and analysis on conductive practice, theory, relevant social policy and financial/economic affairs. Perspectives are historical and contemporary, spiced sometimes with a little 'what-if' futurology.
There is usually at least one new posting a day,
Conductive World encourages everyone involved in this fast-developing and complex field to inform themselves as widely as possible, adopt a critical position on what they read or hear and, above all, to find their own voice and speak out for themselves on matters of concern.
This Manual will be amended and updated as Conductive World itself continues to evolve.
A group of associated and collaborative sites
Conductive World occupies two sites, the ezine itself and its administrative site
These are in turn linked into two social-networking sites:
- Conductive Community Forum (in collaboration with Elliot Clifton)
- Conductive World Jobs (also in collaboration with Elliot Clifton)
- Conductive Education Press (in collaboration with Gill Maguire and Elliot Clifton)
(place an order)
DIRECTORY
The left-hand column of Conductive World offers a DIRECTORY for those wishing to find out more about Conductive Education and related matters, both on this site and elsewhere.
CE blogs
Under the heading CE BLOGOSPHERE you will find links to currently active CE blogs, listed according to their most recent postings. This is is meant to update automatically, in real time, every time a new posting is made. In the event notifications may be sometimes delayed. Down at the bittom if the list is the blog I, Elliot, currently stuck there because of lack of a feed. This does notmean that it does not update: click on it to see.
There are currently CE-focussed blogs in English, French, Hungarian and Portuguese. Please notify any others identified to:
conductive.world@gmail.com
There is a short analysis and discussion of CE blogging at:
CE resources
Listed under CE RESOURCES are links to other sources of information on Conductive Education and related matters, outside Conductive World.
Language
Conductive World is published in English (a sort of internationlised British English, with typos) but welcomes contributions and comments in any language.
Conductive Education is an international movement encompassing many nations and Major languages for publishing Conductive Education on the Internet are currently Chinese, English, German and Hungarian, but there are also a number of other national Internet 'literatures'. Inevitably reference is made to non-English material and at times quotations are given in the in their original language.
English may indeed currently be 'the international language' of Conductive Education, but English-speakers are depriving themselves if they do not at least try to see what they are missing because it is 'in foreign'.
Machine-translation is quick and FREE, and continues to improve, slowly.. According to linguistic proximity it can prove surprisingly effective. Just remember that Hungarian has linguistic proximity to no other tongue! At the foot of each page of ConductiveWorld, choice of three machine-translation services is offered under the heading of MACHINE TRANSLATIONS.
Search Conductive World
Conductive World has been running since October 2007. At the time of writing its archive already contains approaching six hundred items, some very brief, others rather long. To search for a specific topic got to the top of any
Conductive World page, type what you are looking for into the white box on the left-hand side, and click on the Search symbol (a little magnifying glass). You will then be presented with previous postings in which your topic has been mentioned. This may not be effective in identifying older posts and an alternative is being sought.
You may also scroll down the DIRECTORY on the left-hand side of the page till you come to SEARCH CONDUCTIVE WORLD BY TOPIC. Click on a topic that interests you to find previous posts that touch upon this.
Note the the two ways of searching may bring up a rather different range of results.
Be a 'stringer'
Someone who brings something to media attention is called a 'stringer'. Contributions and news are always wanted by
Conductive World. Good news is always welcome, especially in these difficult times. Other news is welcome too! If you have any news, events,
pletyka, that you would like to share more widely, then email in confidence to:
conductive.world@gmail.com
Your part in bringing something to wider public notice will be acknowledged
only if you wish it. Otherwise your identity will be withheld and remain confidential.
For more on being a stringer for
Conductive World, see:
http://www.conductive-world.info/2009/05/become-stringer-for-conductive-world.html
Referencing
Conductive World is not an academic publication. It is fundamentally a personal document with a wider social mission, It reports events, facts, circumstances, and along with these it also expresses opinions and derives conclusions. It endeavours to make this distinction clear, and to provide written sources for information wherever possible and appropriate.
Over two years of publication different styles of referencing have been tried out, and sometimes time constraints have led to their shortened presentation. Throughout this, however, the aim has been and will remain that checkable sources should be easily identified by readers.
Comments and discussions
You are cordially invited to publish your own comments on
Conductive World. You may comment on anything that you read on these pages and there is no requirement to register in order to do so. To comment, go the foot of the posting that you are reading and Click on COMMENT. Write what you want to say in the box provided. (please, no more adverts from saddoes for dodgy Viagra substitutes – boring!).
Some people find it hard to publish their comment once they have written it. The easiest way is simply to select Anonymous. If you still want to identify yourself you can always sign your name at the end of your comment – but you do not have too. Of course, if you really do not want people not to know who you are, you can always use a pseudonym (there is after all a strong tradition of this on Conductive Education, going back to before it even began!)
You can comment in any language, whatever comes easiest to you.
You may comment in the same way upon items here on www.conductive-world.com. For example, if you wish to comment upon this Users' Manual, go down to the foot of this item and click on COMMENTS there.
The comments on
Conductive World also serve as a discussion forum, currently the most active such facility in the little world of Conductive Education. You can see other readers' opinions on what is written on Conductive World, and then join in by publishing your own views, either upon a given posting or upon the comments of other readers.
Queries and enquiries
If there is anything that you would like to ask about, then email.
conductive.world@gmail.com
Preferably, write in English... but if not write in whichever language you express yourself most easily.
Maps
The ezine and its administrative site each display two maps.
- The smaller, 'red' map shows visitors to the site since 1 February 2008 (NB not back to 4 October 2007, when Conductive World started). If you click on this map sometimes you will get further information, sometimes not!
- The larger, 'blue' map shows yesterday's visitors to Conductive World and updates daily. Click anywhere on the map to see a list of most recent visitors. This list updates every five minutes and you will probably find your own location at the top.
Visits are mapped separately for each site. The larger map shows yesterday's visitors to Conductive World and updates daily. Click anywhere on the map to see a list of most recent visitors. This list updates every five minutes and you will probably find your own location at the top.
Note that visits are mapped separately for the two sites.
Social-networking
All new postings on
Conductive World the ezine and on its administrative site are announced on
Twitter and
Facebook, with links to the articles themselves. There are links to these on
Conductive World, under the title SOCIAL NETWORKING, and he current 'Facebook badge' (ikon) is also displayed in the DIRECTORY.
Other announcements may also be made from time to time on these social-netwrorking sites, where comments etc. can also be :posted. Thes esites may also be used for writing messages to
Conductive World.
Knols
An attempt to provide additional information on line by means of Google Knols was discontinued because of the experienced impossibility of achieving acceptible, stable formatting. Two small groups of documents stand, awaiting a better means of presenting unpublished documents on line at no extra cost and with no requirement for technical sophistication. These are linked to under the headings of SUPPLEMENTS and ANDREW SUTTON'S BIBLIOGRAPHIES. The two bibliographies are both presently incomplete).
AT THE FOOT OF EACH PAGE
Send to a friend
If you like a particular article and would like to send it directly to others to read, then you can email it direct, along with your own message if you wish. At the bottom of each article you will find small post symbol (a small envelope with an arrow on it). Click on that symbol and complete the form that comes up. You can include a short message. You can send a single article to up to ten different addresses at one time.
Music and video
Some postings on Conductive World link to music or videos on line.
Fror those who like background music, there is also a link to background music from Radio Antarctica, under the title MUSIC. This station is chosen because I like what it does, I like its music, and I approve of its austere sourcing policy.
Publishing details
Conductive World is available FREE, for reading, downloading and storing, on paper or electronically. It is published by way a standard format provided by Blogger technology:
http://www.blogger.com/
This is an open-access, online ezine, written and published by Andrew Sutton. It is presently the only way to stay updated on today's rapid developments in Conductive Education:. Topics include practice, service-provision, finance and economics, research, children and adults, pedagogy and upbringing, and the chance to state your own views.
Conductive World by Andrew Sutton is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License:
What this means is that you may use materials from Conductive World how you please. By all means quote what you find here. Please, though, it would be appreciated if you do not pass off what is written here as your own work! Just say where you are quoting from.
