Re: [Audacity-devel] Parents evening...

[Leland <aud...@ho...>]

Good show!  It=B9s pretty cool your wife was there.  When the the teacher sai=
d
the word, did you get a bit of a smile or feel butterflies in you tummy?
:-) =20

Leland


On 3/13/07 8:24 PM, "Mar...@ao..." <Mar...@ao...> wrote:

> I had to share this...
> =20
> I had to go to my 15 yr old's parent evening tonight and sit with teacher
> after teacher in turn, telling us how good/bad our lad is (not all good,
> unfortunately) and discussing his GCSE options.  At the ICT table the tea=
cher
> was telling us about the modules that he could do for some qualification =
or
> another, involving a heap of modules adding up to some award.  Rough
> transcript follows:
> =20
> teacher "...and on this one we use Audacity to do some audio stuff..."
> lovely wife (looking proud and pointing at me) "oh he knows all about tha=
t,
> he's one of the.. oh can we tell her?..."
> I, a little embarrassed "hmm... OK then.  I'm one of the developers, in a
> small way, of Audacity"
> teacher "oh yes, and it's free you know"
> I "yes, I know, I spend many an evening in the back room working on it, t=
hat's
> why it's free"
> teacher "oh really? ..and he can do this module of graphics for 60
> credits......."
> =20
> So that didn't make much impression did it?  Maybe next time I'll wear th=
e
> t-shirt, without 2 jumpers and a jacket on top (roll-on global warming, I
> say!).
> =20
> Still, it's good to hear that schools in the UK are using the best piece =
of
> audio software going ("for free") to teach youngsters.  I'd like to
> congratulate all who have been involved in the development.
> =20
> Later this evening, lovely wife came into the back room and was as proud =
as
> proud can be, and now doesn't think I've been wasting my life sat here.
> Having kids can have it's plus points after all!
> =20
> Just an incident I thought I'd share that with you.
> =20
> Martyn
>   =20
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