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		<title>To the Greek sun!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last two weeks were busy. Although I&#8217;ve started with getting Ubuntu Wanted in shape again and began a new programming project which I want to use to learn techniques used for developing Ubuntu desktop programs, most of the time &#8230; <a href="http://www.sehofstede.nl/to-the-greek-sun">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The last two weeks were busy. Although I&#8217;ve started with getting Ubuntu Wanted in shape again and began a new programming project which I want to use to learn techniques used for developing Ubuntu desktop programs, most of the time had to be spent on school. Several teachers demanded reports and essays to be delivered just in time for the upcoming trip and the trip itself needed to be prepared as well.</p>
<p>Because all my work will be stalled for a week and a day starting tonight. Next week is the traditional &#8216;Classical Trip&#8217; that is common for grammar schools, at least in the Netherlands, which is a bit in the spirit of a <em><a title="Grand Tour - Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_tour">Grand Tour</a></em>. Every year the fifth grade &#8212; the sixth is too filled with preparations for the exams &#8212; goes to either Rome or Greece. My year is going to Greece, where we will tour the country and visit most noteworthy places. We&#8217;re the tour guides.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really looking forward to it. Not only is it currently 30 °C in Athens, whereas it&#8217;s 13 °C here, it&#8217;s also great to be away with friends. To the sun!</p>
<p><em>(We&#8217;ll be heading to Brussels Airport &#8212; cheaper than Amsterdam &#8212; at 23.30 this evening and depart to Athens at 6.00 in the morning. We&#8217;ll be back in the evening of Saturday the 17th.)</em></p>
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		<title>Off to Paris!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow 6 &#8216;o clock in the morning, CEST, we will depart to the beautiful city of Paris with school. I won&#8217;t be accessible until we return back in Leeuwarden at 22:00 on Saturday. Of course I won&#8217;t be only immeadiatly. &#8230; <a href="http://www.sehofstede.nl/off-to-paris">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tomorrow 6 &#8216;o clock in the morning, CEST, we will depart to the beautiful city of Paris with school. I won&#8217;t be accessible until we return back in Leeuwarden at 22:00 on Saturday. Of course I won&#8217;t be only immeadiatly. If you need me you can always mail me, but don&#8217;t expect to get a return until Sunday.</p>
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		<title>Subject for interview found</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sense Egbert Hofstede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I posted a request for a subject for an interview I have to take for school. Very soon I got a reply from someone who said he was willing to help me out. Thank you! If he agrees &#8230; <a href="http://www.sehofstede.nl/subject-for-interview-found">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earlier today I posted a request for a subject for an <a title="Subject needed for school interview" href="http://qense.nl/subject-needed-for-school-interview">interview I have to take for school</a>. Very soon I got a reply from someone who said he was willing to help me out. Thank you!</p>
<p>If he agrees I&#8217;m going to place the English interview and the Dutch worked out version under CC at this blog so other people can benefit from it.</p>
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		<title>Subject needed for school interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Dutch we have to interview someone who did a study we&#8217;re interested in and who does the work we&#8217;re interested in. I&#8217;m looking for someone who has studied Computer Science and develops for opensource at his work. I&#8217;d like to &#8230; <a href="http://www.sehofstede.nl/subject-needed-for-school-interview">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For Dutch we have to interview someone who did a study we&#8217;re interested in and who does the work we&#8217;re interested in.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking for someone who has studied Computer Science and develops for opensource at his work. I&#8217;d like to ask you if you know someone who can help me with this, since there is no one else I could think of except for the people in the Ubuntu Community.</p>
<p>What questions can you expect? They&#8217;re mostly about what you like and don&#8217;t like about your work and didn&#8217;t or did like about your study. But also about the circumstances on your work, e.g. loan, participation at work, travel expenses and conferences.</p>
<p>The interview can take place over Jabber/XMMP/Google Talk or IRC or I could send you a mail with the questions.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d be very grateful.</p>
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		<title>A week away: social work placement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you wondered where I was last week. I didn&#8217;t seem to respond much to mails or very slowly. I&#8217;m sorry for this and I know I should have told you before. Since a year or two it&#8217;s mandatory in &#8230; <a href="http://www.sehofstede.nl/a-week-away-social-work-placement">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe you wondered where I was last week. I didn&#8217;t seem to respond much to mails or very slowly. I&#8217;m sorry for this and I know I should have told you before.</p>
<p>Since a year or two it&#8217;s mandatory in the Netherlands for all students at the secondary school to do a social work placement(maatschappelijke stage). This means they should work at a company or organisation that is a kind of social, like schools or companies involved in health care. It lasts one week and needs to be done sufficent, which is determined from the logbook everyone needs. It&#8217;s part of the so called action part(handelingsdeel) of the school exam &#8212; which makes up 50% of the overal mark, together with the central written exam. The action part doesn&#8217;t use marks, but instead you have to do it sufficent.</p>
<p>I worked for a week at two locations of <em>Talant</em> &#8212; a company that provides work and living for the mentally disabled. I decided to help here because I already know a bit about this since both my parents work for the same company. But there&#8217;s still a lot you can&#8217;t get to know from occasional visits. Another reason was that since my father is the manager of those two locations I could stay for a week with him; normally I&#8217;m just at his place every second weekend.</p>
<p>Altogether it was a great week. It was completely different from school. You have to think very different and constantly be aware that the level of each &#8216;client&#8217; is different. The group of people working there(both employees and clients) are very nice people and I&#8217;ve found it a great experience.</p>
<p>I did take my computer with me because I found one week without my data a bit too much. However, apart from the weekend it turned out that there was little time left to check mail. The computer didn&#8217;t get booted at all days. Currently I&#8217;m reading and answering my mail and I hope I didn&#8217;t miss anything important.</p>
<p>Again, my apologizes for the delay.</p>
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		<title>Away on exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Wednesday September the 24th &#8212; yes, that is tomorrow &#8212; until Friday September the 26th in the afternoon, I will be away and not reachable for anyone here. Our school is taking part in an exchange with a school &#8230; <a href="http://www.sehofstede.nl/away-on-exchange">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From Wednesday September the 24th &#8212; yes, that is tomorrow &#8212; until Friday September the 26th in the afternoon, I will be away and not reachable for anyone here.<br />
Our school is taking part in an exchange with a school in Leer, Germany and since I received a guest last schoolyear this time it&#8217;s my turn to go.</p>
<p>See you soon!</p>
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		<title>Other inactivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 18:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be unable to a normal ammount of work on the internet. I&#8217;m very busy with school at the moment(school theatre, school camp, CUC FCE exams, exchange with another grammar school in Leer, Germany and school camp), so &#8230; <a href="http://www.sehofstede.nl/other-inactivity">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m going to be unable to a normal ammount of work on the internet. I&#8217;m very busy with school at the moment(school theatre, school camp, CUC FCE exams, exchange with another grammar school in Leer, Germany and school camp), so I won&#8217;t triage many bugs, or work on Project Paragon. I&#8217;m also asked to create some mock-ups for the design of the school website and I want to finish it, it shouldn&#8217;t need much work and there is a lot of complaining about the current style and I don&#8217;t want the school management to choose for the ugly and Windows bounded Magister WEB Panel! Their information catalogue sounds like an advertisement for Microsoft: &#8220;With Silverlight we can create excellent things!&#8221; and &#8220;Now with Office 2007 looks!&#8221;. Like that&#8217;s a compliment. <img src='http://www.sehofstede.nl/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Anyway, you&#8217;ll see even less of me than you already see now. I don&#8217;t have an IRC client installed at my Windows installation, which I&#8217;m still using because <a title="Bug #231159 in linux (Ubuntu): “SATA devices don't work with Asus M3N78-EH”" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/231159">bug #231159</a> isn&#8217;t fixed yet. It did got confirmed and the status High from Iulian(thank you!), so it should appear sooner or later in front of some kernel people, but it hasn&#8217;t happened yet.<br />
Meanwhile I&#8217;ve installed The GIMP, using the advantage Windows gives: games and am very, very happy with the opensource driver for ext2/3 which allows me to access my data. I hope to be fully back real soon!</p>
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		<title>Onderwijstijd</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Het is de laatste tijd veel in het nieuws geweest. En alhoewel er al heel vaak over gepraat is, vind ik het toch nodig om er zelf ook over praten. Mijn mening zal vast wel eens door een andere gegeven &#8230; <a href="http://www.sehofstede.nl/onderwijstijd">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Het is de laatste tijd veel in het nieuws geweest. En alhoewel er al heel vaak over gepraat is, vind ik het toch nodig om er zelf ook over praten. Mijn mening zal vast wel eens door een andere gegeven zijn, omdat het ook de zijne is, maar misschien kan je het wel bekijken als een soort petitie; als zoveel mogelijk mensen er over schrijven dan krijgt het meer aandacht en het standpunt wordt serieuzer genomen.</p>
<p>De overheid heeft een tijd terug aangekondigd strenger te gaan controleren of scholen wel aanbieden wat de overheid verplicht stelt. Doen ze dat niet dan moet er een boete betaalt worden. Want, zo zegt de overheid, wij hebben de scholen geld gegeven om les te geven. Wij hebben ze geld gegeven voor een vooraf bepaald aantal uren. Zijn die niet gegeven dan hebben ze dat geld ook niet verdiend, het is bedoeld voor de lessen waar de leerlingen recht op hebben.<br />
Dit neemt echter absurde vormen aan, zoals te zien is bij het Piter Jelles, die 244.000 euro moeten terug moeten betalen aan de overheid. Maar, dan vraag ik mij af, waar moet die school in hemelsnaam dat geld vandaan halen? Ouderbijdrage verhogen? Bezuinigen op materiaal, gebouwen of leraren? Een van de oorzaken van een tekort aan les is een tekort aan leraren. Dat vererger je alleen maar door een boete te eisen. Met welk geld moet de school dan extra leraren aannemen die uitgevallen collega&#8217;s vervangen?</p>
<p>Ook andere problemen dienen zich aan. Zo is dit een van de belangrijkste reden waarom <a href="http://www.z24.nl/bedrijven/voeding_drank/article132159.ece/Urennorm_obstakel_voor_bijscholing_leraren.html">leraren amper of niet naar bijscholing kunnen</a>, waardoor de kwaliteit van het onderwijs achteruit gaat. <a href="http://www.brabantsdagblad.nl/brabant/2473269/Beboete-school-zet-65plussers-in.ece">Een school zette 65plussers in</a> om in te vallen voor absente docenten. Ze kunnen niet zo snel aan vervangende docenten komen, wat komt door een gebrek aan geld en leraren, een beroep wat niet zo populair meer is.</p>
<p>Het kan best wel met niet &#8216;genoeg&#8217; uren zoals <a href="http://www.trouw.nl/deverdieping/opvoeding_onderwijs/article886772.ece/Weinig_les,_toch_goede_resultaten">een aantal scholen</a> laten zien. Dat is ook het punt van LAKS. Ze willen af van het verplichte aantal uren dat scholen per jaar moeten maken. Het gaat om nu veel te veel om kwantiteit, terwijl kwaliteit veel en veel belangrijker is. Wat heb je eraan om in een lokaal te zitten in het bijzijn van iemand met een bevoegdheid, maar die zelf ook niet weet wat je het beste kunt doen? Geef het geld voor die uren en administratie van onderwijstijd en boetes uit aan wat nuttigers! Want zeg nou zelf, betere, nieuwe methodes, betere begeleiding voor mensen die moeilijk en juist erg makkelijk kunnen leren, materiaal en leraren zijn toch veel beter dan een klas kauwgom laten schrapen in het bijzijn van een onderwijsassistent.<br />
Dus, teken de petities op <a href="http://stop1024.nl">stop1024.nl</a> en de website van de<a href="http://www.aob.nl/actie/"> onderwijsbond</a>!  Laat je school aansluiten bij het Bewust Kiezen voor Kwaliteit platform! Want op deze manier maak je scholing niet beter, je helpt alleen scholen nog meer naar beneden.</p>
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