User:Chriswaterguy/Chris Watkins: Difference between revisions

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Welcome to the homepage of Chris Watkins

My collaborations
Development stuff
Appropedia - Appropriate technology, development, sustainability. User page
Nabuur.com - "The global neighbour network." Assisting mainly with water and sanitation. User page
Development-related topics on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia user page.
Wikipedia - The concept inspires me. User page
Learning & teaching at Wikibooks. Wikipedia user page.
Mainly Indonesian and English.
Communities on Wikia.com. My User page has miscellaneous net-related stuff, and links to the Wikia communities I'm watching.
Political: Wikia Campaigns, and also the Australian Greens' wiki... still experimental.
I'm looking and waiting for a community recipes site - for now see my recipes and recipe links
My other writing - see the blue box on the right.

Chris Watkins
(Tim's scan in email?)

Languages: English (native) Indonesian (fluent) Malaysian (conversational) Japanese & German (very basic - thanks, excuse me, delicious, mein linke Blinker ist kaput...).

My writing
Blog. Still deciding on a place... I'd like to figure out transclusion and RSS, and maybe even automatically list links to my most recent topics in a table on this page... Here's my out of date blog.
My recipes. Pleasure & health.

a.k.a. "Singkong2005"

(This is where I can write in prose rather than point form. Need to figure out padding for middle section.)

I love the way the internet facilitates collaboration, and I'm quite involved in several collaborations, as you can see in the box on the left.

Plans

Sometime in the second half of 2006 I'm heading to Asia on a one-way ticket. I'll visit and learn from development projects, gain experience and use it (perhaps) for a career, and (definitely) to share via Appropedia and Wikipedia. Partly, though, it's a lifestyle thing - I don't enjoy living in Australia, and long to get back to Indonesia, and explore other countries as well, broadening my horizons.

To help pay my way, I have a 3 options:

Development work (probably further down the track)
Exporting - I have some experience with this, so I'll be looking for those things that I know I can reliably sell. I specialise in scarves and shawls.
English teaching. I think I'll enjoy this. Getting a gig at a university would be ideal.

If and when I do English language teaching, I plan to collaborate on lesson planning, using: Wikibooks, Dave's ESL Cafe, and perhaps The Teachers' Lounge, and TeachForward (not running yet).

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 === a.k.a. "Singkong2005" ===
 ''(This is where I can write in prose rather than point form.  Need to figure out padding for middle section.)''
 I love the way the internet facilitates collaboration, and I'm quite involved in several collaborations, as you can see in the box on the left.
+====Plans====
+Sometime in the second half of 2006 I'm heading to Asia on a one-way ticket. I'll visit and learn from development projects, gain experience and use it (perhaps) for a career, and (definitely) to share via Appropedia and Wikipedia. Partly, though, it's a lifestyle thing - I don't enjoy living in Australia, and long to get back to Indonesia, and explore other countries as well, broadening my horizons.
+To help pay my way, I have a 3 options:
+* Development work (probably further down the track)
+* Exporting - I have some experience with this, so I'll be looking for those things that I know I can reliably sell. I specialise in scarves and shawls.
+* English teaching. I think I'll enjoy this. Getting a gig at a university would be ideal.
+If and when I do English language teaching, I plan to collaborate on lesson planning, using:'' [[Wikibooks:English as an Additional Language|Wikibooks]], [http://eslcafe.com/ Dave's ESL Cafe], ''and perhaps'' [http://teacherslounge.editme.com/ The Teachers' Lounge], ''and'' [http://teachforward.org/ TeachForward] ''(not running yet).
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