Part of why I'm loving reconnecting to Twitter is the human contact with people I'd otherwise never know.
I have been getting loads of follows from musicians who seem genuinely pleased to reply when I tell them they delighted me so I'm sending them a message of encouragement.
I don't do it lightly. Their music is amazing and I've never heard of them. A very humbling experience.
The thrust of this law is that Velocity doesn't get blinded by technology - on the other end of a tweet or an app or an anything is a person.
In terms of education this means that behind every student in my class is an extended family of people.
I well remember when this dawned on me. It was 1983.
My first teaching job was as an English teacher at New Plymouth Boys' High School.
When my first parent-teacher evening had finished I was pleasantly exhausted and fizzing. My students had parents. Who knew?? Parents who cared about them enough to meet me. I looked like I was 16 but I was now the 'expert' who was giving a report and advice on their son.
It was seriously cool!!
We recently had some PTSIs at school - Parent Teacher Student Interviews. It was, again, a wonderful experience.
I had indicated to the parents who I REALLY needed to see but loads more came anyway. Fab! Again - fizzing and pleasantly exhausted - and long may those feelings continue.
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