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PROFILES
OF PROMINENT EDUCATION FORUM
MEMBERS
PROFILE OF ANDY
WALKER, MODERATOR
Home Page --
http://www.learningonline.me.uk
Birthday --- 4
January 1965
Location --- Gravesend, Kent
Interests -- No Information
Andy Walker Dec 17 2003, 11:48 PM
I'm Andy Walker a History and Sociology teacher from Dartford Technology
College in Kent. I am the founder of this forum.
I host two web sites, one on SHP GCSE History and one mainly focussed on A
level Sociology, History, PE, Health and Social care and Citizenship. I am a
member of the ATW and am an administrator of this forum.
Dartford Technology College
http://www.dtc.kent.sch.uk/intro.html
PROFILE OF JOHN
SIMKIN, MODERATOR
Home Page --
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/
Birthday --- No
Information
Location --- Worthing, Sussex
Interests -- No Information
John Simkin Aug 23 2004, 07:30 AM
I have been a history teacher since 1977. In 1979 I was a founder member of
the Tressell Publishing Cooperative and in 1984 established Spartacus
Educational. Since 1997 I have run the Spartacus Educational website. I have
also produced electronic and online resources for a wide range of different
organisations including the Guardian (Learn), the Daily Telegraph
(Electronic Telegraph), British Library, Historical Association and Becta. I
was also a founder member of the Association of Teacher Websites and an
early member of the European Virtual School.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/
http://www.byteachers.org.uk
http://vs.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/index_vs.cfm
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John Simkin
Biography: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=1365
General Website: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
JFK Website: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKindex.htm
Operation Mockingbird: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm
PROFILE OF SHANET
CLARK
Home Page --
http://w.w.w.scribners.org/
Birthday --- 14
March 1962
Location --- Atlanta, Dekalb Co., Georgia, USA
Interests -- Writer, Lecturer, Historian.
Shanet Clark Oct 13 2004, 09:45 PM
Shanet Clark: GSU History Fellow active with the Organization of American
Historians, the American History Association, the Southern Historical
Association and the National Council of History Educators (OAH, AHA, SHA and
NCHE).
Shanet Clark graduated summa cum laude with a BA in History from GSU. Writer
well versed in intelligence and Watergate history, & able to offer sober
reality checks, facts, citations, to the debate as proud member of the
EDUCATION FORUM.
Writer / Historian.
Born 3/14/1962: Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia. Outdoorsman.
Married to B.B.C Clark, Charleston S.C. 10/1/96, Parish of St. Michael's.
Resides Atlanta, Georgia: Democrat. Episcopal Disciples of Christ.
Blueblood Geneology: FFV or "First Family of Virginia"
I am apparently a fourteenth generation American, and my direct ancestors
came from England to Virginia in 1611. I have WWII, Civil War and
Revolutionary War ancestors. The Pilot John Clark, who was captured at
Jamestown and held by the Spanish for four years, and then was hired to
pilot the 'Mayflower' to Plymouth, Massachusetts, is my ancestor. I know of
no other person who had property granted to him at both Plymouth Mass. and
Jamestown Virginia, and he is my great grandfather to the Fourteenth
Generation.
"The Seventh Son of the Seventh Son ... the long way"
I've been to 38 states and Jamaica and have experienced life to its full
extent.
I studied political science under Dr. Simon Perry at Marshall University --
out in the rugged coal center of the tri-state industrial area;
Charleston-Huntington-South Point-Ashland on the Ohio River where Kentucky,
Ohio and West Virginia meet. I wrote for newspapers and had a series of
radio and television studio work experiences, then I earned at GSU in
Atlanta the BA in History. Georgia Perimeter Community College, formerly
DeKalb College, which was very diverse, and winning Honors History Student
of the Year, and model myself now on these public academians. Harold Laswell,
C. Wright Mills and V.O. Key informed my politics, exposes, critical work.
I took the Graduate Records Exam, an SAT test for college graduates in the
US, scoring in the top one percent in the verbal area, in the ninety-ninth
percentile of all college graduates. I think we can all take pride in this.
This was sweet vindication indeed for a self-taught writer who had put up
with dimwits all his life.
Political Scientists, Psychologists and Sociologists have taught me that
education is an indoctrination and intended for behavioural socialization,
mainly for ideological conditioning and imposing rhetorical constraints. I
only returned to the academy when I felt I could use the system for the
critical political anlyses of history's "unspoken truths."
In 1988 I helped Dr. Jack Herer edit the book "The Emperor Wears No Clothes:
Paper, Fiber, Fuel and Food" & I was News Director of WMOQ FM "the Bridge"
rock station in Athens, Georgia 1996, writing and producing timed
ninety-second cartridges for airplay on entertainment, technology and news.
I travel and present papers on political history and geography to history
and inter-disciplinary conferences around the country.
I am active in the OAH,SHA,AHA and NCHE, history organizations, and a member
of the Benevolent Association of Hibernians, Atlanta.
I was good friends with the Seventh Episcopal Bishop of Atlanta, the late
Judson Child. I have been backstage with Little Feat, Grateful Dead,
Firefall, Widespread Panic, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen with
Bill Kirchen, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, Outlaws and the Drive By
Truckers, all these very cool and talented contemporaries, my associates and
dear friends, working in their culturally constricted and publicly inscribed
spaces we all now inhabit, friends of mine thriving in all their postmodern
irony and eclecticity... even Jerry Garcia was an acquaintance.
I subscribe to The New York Times, Playboy and New York magazine, and I
occasionally read the National Review and Soldier of Fortune. I own over one
thousand books, many from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the 1783
S. Johnson Shakespeares, Paley, Layard, Tott, Elton, Punch 1876 and
MacCaulay.
I value critical thinking, the incisive use of reason, self-awareness. My
tendency is to corgi-like yipping into the face of hypocrisy emanates from
immersion in the great books, protestant anti-clerical theory, whig theory,
media political agenda theory, critics like Aldous Huxley, George Orwell,
Ginsburg and Kerouac and Gary Snyder, also Alan Watts... Lewis Carroll and
Edward Lear... contact with artists and songwriters, poets, radical
independents, balanced by my insistence on the Wallawhatoola way, the way of
Powhatan, or integrity in the face of authority.
My father was a
Nixon antagonist and a Kennedy man in West Virginia in 1960.
I have always been contrarian. I have read LAING and Oscar Janiger, Robert
A. Wilson, P. K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Vance Packard, C. Wright Mills,
Domhoff and Dahl, the logistics of political participation theory, Louis
Hartz, the rhetoric of the founders and Clay/Lincoln, the rhetoric of
MacCaulay and Bishop Gilbert Burnet, Rene Descates...Samuel Clarke and Issac
Newton, Montesquie, DeToqueville and Voltaite. Jean Jacque Rousseau... the
Skellig Irish Bishops, the ancient martyrs, the native American myth and
shamanist tradition, British Druid Christian tradition ...Lives of Boadicca,
Bran, Caroadoc, Linus, Coel, and the Silurian Court in first century Rome,
Joseph of Arimathea, Arthur at Bath, William III and Washington,
Wellington... Madoc ObGwinet, Saint Patrick, Saint Augustine of Hippo, (the
first autobiography) Thor Heyerdahl, Joseph Conrad, Dr. Johnson. Greatest
influence: a pious Victorian grandmother who was insistent on sanitation and
church on Sunday, Welsh nationalism.
All time favorite music: Apostophe, Blues for Allah, Timepeace and Blind
Faith.
Autobiography of posting member.
Sworn: Photo Avatar Portrait of posting member Shanet Clark.
Member:Education Forum. 2/14/2005: Shan Clark, Shanet Clark: ATL-USA.
This post has been edited by Shanet Clark: Mar 20 2005, 07:03 AM
Salvador
Astucia has written a book, Opium Lords, which deals with the
opium-rich Golden Triangle and how it was used to pay the men who killed
President John F. Kennedy. Astucia has written a second book, Rethinking
John Lennon's Assassination: The FBI's War on Rock Stars. To read either or
purchase, click here:
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