A New Voice from Down Under: "Thinking 2.0"
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If you haven’t discovered Cindy Barnsley’s “Thinking 2.0″ since she started it recently, it’s fine indeed. Good conversation happening there about the need for “constructive dissent” in the edublogosphere - which prompted me to write the previous post to Karl.
Interesting side-notes about the Yankee-centric tendencies of said e’b’sphere as well, and the differences beyond the USA in teaching and learning and philosophy in general (Scott Schwister, you mentioned you’re thinking about this issue, didn’t you?).
Cindy’s fresh to teaching from journalism, from what I gather, so her ideas are fresh, and here prose is fine. She also has a knack for cool cartoons. 
(Is “Down Under” offensive to Aussies and Kiwis? Is “Aussie”? Is “Kiwi”?)
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An Aussie is an Aussie and a Kiwi is a Kiwi and never the twain shall meet. The same as a Canadian is not an American. I am an Australian living in New Zealand and I’m sure that the Kiwis living in Australia would say the same
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Jane Nicholls
13 Jul 07 at 7:06 am
Hi Clay,
Thanks for the encouragement. Being from “Down Under” does sound a little weird doesn’t it. There was once a “cultural cringe” associated with living, as our former Prime Minster Paul Keating so eloquently put it, at the “arse end of the world”, but I’m not bothered by it or by the term “Aussie”. I do rather like “Antipodean” though - it has a more exotic ring (etymology- Antipodes (from Greek anti- “opposed” and pous “foot”) means “diametrically opposed”, and more specifically refers to the opposite side of the Earth, the region of the antipodal point, and those to those living there. In Britain in particular, “The Antipodes” is often used to refer to Australia and New Zealand.
Cindy
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Cindy Barnsley
13 Jul 07 at 9:28 am
Another etymology fan!
I wish my president had the wit (and the English fluency) of your fmr P.M. I think the word “antipode” would garner blank stares from Americans. But so do words like, I dunno, “Canada” and “Mexico.” It’s not our fault. We have the shortest vacation periods in the developed world, and we’re isolated by the two biggest oceans. We don’t have time to get out much.
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Clay Burell
13 Jul 07 at 9:46 am