Katie and Nigel's Wedding

My daughter Katie Saywood married Nigel Davison on 27 May 2005. The ceremony and reception were held in the Mansion House at Edinburgh Zoo It was wonderful! Here are a couple of pictures of the occasion: the first one is the stretch limo outside our house, waiting to take the bride and wedding party to the ceremony and the second was taken just after the wedding (before the reception)- don't they look happy!

Katie and Nigel keep many reptiles as pets, including leopard geckos. My husband, Gus, keeps tropical fish, especially cichlids. I hope posting 2 photos works & they are not too squashed!

Ataxia UK

I'm secretary of the East of Scotland Branch of Ataxia UK. At the moment, our Branch website is on the USQ student web server, but we'll soon be getting our own web host; I'll post the address of this when it changes. Ataxia is (usually) an inherited condition and causes progressive problems with mobility and speech: cognitive abilities are unaffected.

At last! Our permanent web address is up and running. It is: http://www.ataxia-east-scotland.org.uk/

Here's a picture taken on a charity walk last summer (2004). The picture is taken at the start in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, with Arthur's Seat in the background - we then walked all round the city. I'm number 1339 and my daughter Katie has a red jacket on. My nephew Al is number 1343, the rest are friends from work and our branch of Ataxia. We raised nearly 1000 UK pounds for the charity.

Starting FET 5601 at USQ

Hi there! I've just started my third course on the Masters in Flexible Learning at USQ (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) - it's FET 5601, Instructional Design for Flexible Learning. Have never tried blogging before so this is a bit scary! This is a picture of me and my husband Gus, at my daughter's wedding on May 27 this year. It was a very happy occasion.

I'm hoping to have some discussions on designing courses for flexible delivery. I work at Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK and I lecture in Accounting. We run a BA Hons in Accounting, Certificate / Diploma in Accounting (similar to HNC/HND) and professional training courses for ACCA and CIMA. I also run 3 paper-based distance learning modules which I'm hoping to adapt for the web as well.

We use WebCT for most of our modules, but just as an add-on to face to face delivery - posting handouts, lecture notes, worked examples, past exam papers etc. The students love it and can't get enough, although some are not happy about the costs of printing out material - but study material can be accessed remotely too which helps.

Best wishes,
Penny Gardner