Pumpkin-arama

Me and Catherine (well Catherine mostly) made a scary pumpkin for outside our house! Check it out (it's designed to scare off burglars!)

(Bad) customer service-tastic

As I think I've mentioned a couple of times, I've been helping my Dad out with his alarm company website - and one of the things I've been helping him spot is posts about how bad ADT customer service is. Check out this example!

ADT UK customer complaint!

Check out this fabulously crazy UK ADT customer complaint. It's bonkers to see how bad ADT's customer service is. Ho hum!

Critical thinking teacher's resources

Critical thinking is an interesting subject.

So I've been developing a series of critical thinking teaching resources to help A-level (and other) teachers. In particular it's a developing arguments teacher's pack.

I've also developed up a guide to Aristotle's Rhetoric - to help newbie's understand the basics around Aristotle.

Tips on Critical thinking

So I wrote this piece the other day on critical thinking, detailing what it is, why it's relevant and why it's useful.

I still can't believe you can take a whole A-level in critical thinking, as frankly it's a bit of a thin subject - however, I do think it's incredibly important, and of course argument mapping and argument maps can really help visualise your thoughts.

Reasons why my Dad's company's the best alarm monitoring company

I've been helping my father with his security company marketing a bit recently - giving him some tips - one of which is to write more blog articles.
So to kick things off, I've written one for him on 5 reasons why his alarm systems are the best monitored alarm systems, and why his is the best UK alarm monitoring provider.

I've also started helping share around his selection of videos on monitored alarms.

Animation blog launches with UK animation festival list

So we've been helping our friends at Channel 4 re-launch 4mations as the UK leading animation blog. It's been kinda hard work, however it's all coming together. The 4mations animation blog now features things like animation reviews, animation shorts, tips on how to get an animation commissioned on TV, how to make a good animation showreel, and also a list of UK animation festivals.

The list of animation festivals features festivals including:
- Encounters Short Film Festival: Deadline 30th June 2009, next festival 17-22 November 2009
- Edinburgh International Film Festival: Submissions open October 2009, next festival June 2009
- Leeds International Film Festival: Deadline 21st August 2009, next festival 4-16 November 2009
- London International Animation Festival: Deadline 1st of June 2009, next festival 28 August - 6 September 2009
- Kinofilm: Deadline 10th September 2009, next festival 23-28 February 2010
- Animex: Deadline 1st October 2009, next festival 8-12 February 2010
- Aurora: No submissions, next festival 5-15 November 2009
- Showcomotion: 2010 dates to be announced
- Flip Festival: Deadline 3rd July 2009, next festival 5-7 November 2009
- Bradford Animation Festival: Deadline 24th July 2009, next festival 11-14 November 2009
- British Animation Awards: 2010 dates to be announced
- Canterbury Anifest: Deadline 30th September 2009, next festival 7th and 8th november 2009