DrJoolz Snapshotz on Life

I understand (from watching trash films) that sometimes private detectives look through other people’s bins to find out stuff.

Well today I decided to do something similar. To look through my own email trash can to see if I could find out anything about myself.

We could see it as a bt of self-psycho-analysis. (Freud would have a good day with that concept.)

Aaaanyway, I found in my bin a number of emails from people I don’t know. This first one is from Adam Burt (thanks Adam) who sent me a link to his blog telling me how to podcast onto my blog using a photocopier… YES REALLY. Look here at the video.

I had an email from someone else who I never heard of and it had a link to his blog. The blog had a blog post with a hilarious video of some girl dancing.

I had gerzillions of emails about blogging in secondary schools - so much so that my inbox went nto the SCARY RED ZONE.

An extract of the mail is this:

We have 300 children in school. Up until this year it has really only
been my class who blogged although I did some whole-class-blogging
with younger children.
This session we are trying 2 children from each of our 2 primary 6
and 2 primary 7 classes being bloggers each day. This should mean
each child in these classes blogs every couple of weeks or so. Mainly
just writing about what they have learned, the quality of the posts
is variable, but hopefully will improve as the children get the hang
of the tech and can focus on learning

The person said they use this software.

Oh and then there was all the mail about ethics reviews which I chucked … after doing the reviews of course. But what if someone finds that trash??

In one of the emails labelled

SPAM

it said:

If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed…
…Oh, wait a minute, he already does.

Actually, on second thoughts, it is really BORING going through my own trash can.

Ok, so now the analysis…
I found out this about me … I get a lot of emails. I deleted 80 today, which is a bout avearage. I don’t read about half of what I delete. And some of it, I now see, is QUITE interesting but I just don’t have enough time to read it all.

And finally …. nearly in my trash can is an email from someone I do not know, asking for advice on who to have as her referees when she applies to another university to get on a teaching course (????!!!) Weird. The e mail is full of spelling errors. She has also sent me her personal statement to look through. I don’t know her and this is CRAZY!! But I am going to help her.

And finally.
Guess where I went at the weekend .