Knuckle down and just do it.

Multi tasking in training and assessment language means doing more than two things at one time... effectively and as efficiently as possible.   In cognitive psychology there is serial and parallel learning.  Passing through the serial learning to the parallel learning leads onto successful multitasking.  In turn these lead into foundation training for the time management skills to have gained competence for a life skill learned. Even IT has a Multi Tasking program.  One where you run one prorgram and do something else [ like play a game or check your emails while the computer defraggs] so that the first program does its thing.

Multi tasking is found in household management as well.  The direct example is when someone is gathering the clothes into laundry baskets while hunting for dishes to wash [ on the computer desk, under the bed, top of the book shelves]. Either way you are going to find the floor needs cleaning. The laundry gets sorted and the first load goes on.  The dishes have been gathered and are waiting to be washed.  Therefore this job has been started. Lunch will be prepared once the next load of washing goes through the machine and the dishes have been washed, dried and put away.  With the benches clean the lunch preparations can begin. before lunch is eaten the table will be cleared and the laundry put out to dry.  Multi-tasking boils down to job allocation within efficiently effective time management procedures. The perimaters of time management is a conceptual learning program where the 'manager' has benchmarks that they may choose to follow.  The methods used suit each individual 'time managers' skill levels or a needs annalysis is done and change occurs.
Serial learning occurs when learning one task at a time. The task may be broken down into steps by step learning.  For instance the gathering of toys as part of a game. Then lining the toys up and throwing the toy into the bucket.  Tipping the bucket into the toy box.Closing the toy box lid and going out side while the laundry is being hung out.   Serial learning allows for different steps having been learned at different times. In the example the looking for, gathering and throwing are three learned steps.  Joined together in a serial pattern allowing for the toys to be tipped into the toy box.  Added to this is the congratulations and show of 'A job well done ' approach [ie cheering].

The above example also allows for the gradual sequential connections between tasks to have numeral value in task completion pattern making. That is (a) occurs before (b) which occurs before (c) etc. It follows that when the steps of 'look - gather- aim - throw- tip and congratulate'  have occurred the task has been performed. The task steps then have meaning and direction planning has occurred in which the task is complete. Competency is gained through practicing that one task with both direct and intrinsic understanding. 

Parallel learning is the learning of how to combine two or more tasks, in synchronisation, while still completing more than one task at a time. Example of parelle learning can be cleaning the floor of toys, gathering laundry and collecting the dishes so that these jobs may be completed.

I am thinking that  paralle learning is not the same as multitasking.  Indeed that mutli-tasking consists of  both serial  and paralleled learning - begun in childhood and is taken into our adult lives, thus the skills go with us into the community, or jobs, further education, future relationships, family life patterns -something passed on to future generations through the successful use of time management.  Thus older youths may recognise that they have gained a subconscious knowledge basis level to be built upon, there is already in place multi tasking concepts, networks, systems and structures.  This knowledge is a large part of time management skills.

Be on the look out

The primary focus of asking people to share their travel pictures on the travel blog is to 'share places of interest from many peoples view point.'


The reasons:

a) I enjoy blogging when I have down time at work.

b) Naturally I cannot be everywhere, have eaten everything, watched as things grew, participated in shows, festivals or life's events.

c) Through work I meet a lot of overseas and out of state people.

d)  One thing naturally leads to another.  People travel with access  to local events and places off the beaten trace to go to.  If they are interested in fishing then the family can do other things like go to the nearest town and leave the fish to communicate with the hook all they like.  Family cames back either with fish and chips [prepaid at local take ways outlet!] or to AL La's natural fish on the BBQ or hot coals.

The common thread is 'what is there to see' . Either in Australia or overseas. Since I live in Gippsland the students, friends and relatives want to know where to go in Melbourne on their travels. To get out of the valley and explore. Or what to see when they are away in Cairns or Sydney.  On the other foot by sharing part of their homeland, or places of interest they prepare others for their trips abroad.

Then, I also meet a lot of people who are so close to going off the rails that they do not realise they could be locked into Victoria through the Justice system let alone be unable to leave [ more pointedly not be accepted into another country] when they get older due to 'a phases they were going through'. The proposal is to use the sight to show these individuals where people have been, seen, and are doing.

One objective of the above points is form a 'community' of people who want to share that there is a life out there. Things to see, do view or participate in. Boredom is a choice not a necessity of life. That being constantly boarded is a self harming aspect of what people consider life is.  Not a factual reality at all.  Life is what each of us make of it.  The network of support threads may at times passively provide a trigger point which quietly pulls others out of a negative downward vortex. [My soap box issues is community development participation]

The overall strategies

a) Simply to involve other peoples pictorial view of the world. What it was like then to what is happening to it now.

b) Through involving other people ( with coauthoring) a multifactitied approach is taken. The blog will not become one eyed and tunnel visioned.

c) Countries may have recognised boarders but people cope with human capital factors [ a mix of social frameworks, education, financial, religious, ethics, age and generational aspects towards life skills, approaches and so forth]. Utilizing Internet and multimedia opening the world of visual possibilities through a simple blog is a mind field of exploration.

d) Social sharing on networks opens blog up. Pictures shared equates to more people possibilities. The pictures that others take of your home town, country or events in the world as they are occurring trigger adventure while feeding the brains desire for knoweldege. Look at what the collaborative efforts of trying to brake the codes in the second world war have lead too. That is something you are taking full advantage of now.... a view point of your abilities and the world you are currently standing in with an education that is totally different from when your parents were shown how to use the abacus, slide rule and then wonder of wonders the calculator ( early seventies time period!)

All I do do is send you a coauthor invitation. You either accept of not this invitation. From this point you up load your pictures to the blogs memory. Write what you want to describe the picture [where it is, when taken [summer, winter, travel arrangements, although this may be part of a series of posts. In one day of Melbourne this is what I saw. List. Hyperlink to posts you place on. Note more than three photos, diagrams or maps  tends to confuse people[usually only one or two]  per post as peoples time span and attention span is limited to only a glance then maybe few minutes of reading time.

You save your post or publish it. The coauthors may do their own hyperlinks to other sites of interest as well.

The upside to coauthoring [Guest writing] is the positive answer " yes I have published works"  Yes I am a Guest writer of!  The knowledge that one step leads to another.  Use this opportunity as an inclusive first step.

Besides taking pictures myself  my back ground part in this will be hyperlinking to other posts. For instance the constant updating of the index's while hypelinking into other parell interest sites. [ ie what food, art and craft, community , change, camping and so forth.  This is not to say that I will be doing all the hyperlinking.  If something does not fit into over all focus aspect then I either ask you to place it in another appropriate blog [for instance a graffiti blog I know of or a art on the exterior one]

Sound simple enough? To participate send an email addressed to "es I'm interested in sharing" too  cve4me@gmail.com and I'll spend time sharing with you.