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How many of you listening remember those old-fashioned true crime magazines? I’m going to have to do a Google search to refresh my own memory of some of those pulps, hang on, those that stand out were called “True Crime”, “True Detective” and one called “True Crime Detective”.

Don't do this often, but here you've got a review on a series I saw this past weekend. I enjoyed it, it was very well made and suggest you check it out as well. On HBO, it's "I'll be gone in the dark".

Transcript of this episode, as usual, over on the radio revel blog.

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Hey friends!

Drifting (as Mim Canny would have asked us to do) to a different topic, even had to make a new tag over on the blog (where I've left the transcript and links to some of those things I mention in this episode, videos and blogs).

Good riddance, Kellyanne. Hope you stay out of public service for a long time, won't thank you for the service you've given this time around.

Can you tell I didn't like her very much? ha!

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Hey all.

Here's a novel idea. Going to turn boring babysitters into a new, important vocation. Trying to launch ideas that will get us out of ruts that we use as excuses for not evolving. Moving from "they have to go to school, I have to go to work, the economy needs me!" to "I can go to work because my children are safe at home with someone caring for them as they enter a new world of valid educational choice."

Not going to change the world with this one, but got it off my chest anyway!

Enjoy. Transcript can be found on the blog.

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Hey all!

Continuing on with the "Engage them" theme on learning from home, I look a bit at how I began engaging my own ESL students and transition to the motivations younger students have imposed upon them.

You can read the transcript on the You're listening to radio revel blog.

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"Are we really going to send our kids back to school? Really?"

We've got to look at some of the reasons there is so much resistance to not sending our kids back to school. This episode, I segue from that distance learning design experience into the first part of one of the themes that often keeps distance learning in the "can't be done" box: student engagement.

If you want to take a look at a transcript of this episode, it can be had on the radio revel blog.

Like, subscribe, notify, share, don't be shy. I'm sharing to notify you of ideas for change that you might like to subscribe to!

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Hey all.

Yeah, it's been a couple of weeks. Yeah, any excuse would be lame, so not bothering!

Hope you enjoy this episode, it's longer because it's kind of one-and-a-half episodes all in one.

Remember, transcript can be read on the radio revel blog.

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Yeah. Is this just another podcast that got enthusiastically started during quarantine and now fades away with everything else we ought to have learned in March and April of this year, 2020?

As always, transcript can be seen on the radio revel blog.

Enjoy!

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Hey listeners!

Friday again, plodding on with the work from home episodes in the "It can be done" series. I'll get back to education, I promise you! Actually, sooner than we think....

This episode describes two work spaces I inhabit: the one at the workplace and the other on in my home. I figured we'd have to have a clear idea of the two physical environments in order to be able to do a pro / con comparison for issue identification and problem solving. Often, the objections of issues that come up in work from home discussions are directly related to the geographic location of the working space.

Remember, you can read this episode transcript on the radio revel blog. There you can also see better images of the two offices (the thumbnail here is probably pretty tiny!)

Enjoy, and if you need reminding, do the like, subscribe, notify, share thing (I'm going to call it LSNS from now on, maybe it will catch on and go viral!)

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Hey again!

A new "it can be done" episode here.

I take a look at the two main "authorities" that define what a workspace is, hoping that we employees are on the ball and ready to face the restrictive ways in which these authorities will probably try to write the script for future work from home platforms and practices.

Though I say in the episode "9" minutes, I must have read slower this time!

Transcript available on the radio revel blog!

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Hey listeners!

Thanks for tuning in again. This episode continues the chain of "work from home" reflections. It contains an anecdote that I lean on when trying to defend the fact that despite contrary beliefs, a lot of us actually do do some of our work from home without it being officially recognized as such. Also an introduction to how we can begin, on an individual basis, to get some say in the future of work from home.

Transcript (for those who like to read!) is on the radio revel blog.

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