A lesson learned from James Bach
I just finished James Bach’s “Secrets of a buccaneer-scholar” and it hit home in a weird way. I’m not an unschooler or a high school dropout, but I could still relate to a lot of things in his book. It...
View ArticleChildren’s own pass/fail criteria (and nursery rhymes)
One month ago, my oldest daughter (6) started taking on rope skipping. The last time I had seen her practising, two weeks ago, she was still having trouble getting the rope neatly over (and under)...
View ArticleThe Eurostar 2012 diaries (the prequel)
What a year… It has been a while since my last blog post, and being the programme chair for Europe’s biggest software testing conference probably had something to do with that. Now that the twentieth...
View ArticleThe Eurostar 2012 diaries – part 2 (monday Nov 5)
So it begins… tutorial day En route from the novotel to the RAI on this dark and rainy monday morning, I am pleasantly surprised to see “Eurostar Conference” signposted everywhere (next to Shrek the...
View ArticleThe Eurostar 2012 diaries – part 3 (tuesday Nov 6)
Super Tuesday Photo by Rik Marselis Early tuesday, and my dreams were filled with empty auditoria and keynote speakers stuck in airports. A first reality check eases my mind a bit. The people I dreamt...
View ArticleDEWT4 – a peer conference on teaching testing
From left to right: Jeanne Hofmans, Rob van Steenbergen, Jurian van de Laar, Peter Simon Schrijver, Jean-Paul Varwijk, Bernd Beersma, Huib Schoots, Arjen Verweij, Zeger van Hese, Joris Meerts, Markus...
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