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Paul Kleiman

@paulrk.bsky.social
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Fragments at the edge of educational, cultural, political chaos. HE Consultant. Visiting Professor. PFHEA. Strategic thinker. Assessment radical. Creativity expert. Learning Outcomes heretic. Narrowboat owner. Blog: stumblingwithconfidence.com

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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Wordle 1,944 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Opening the door to the living room she was surprised to see everyone gathered there.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Wordle 1,943 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Muttley runs outside, pauses for a moment, then send a long howl into the darkness.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wordle 1,937 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 “OK. Come out, come out, wherever you are!” “Sshhh!”
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I missed last night’s #LTHEchat, but have just read through the thread. Fascinating! This may be of interest stumblingwithconfidence.com/2025/06/22/r...
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Revealing assessment through drawing
When leading workshops on assessment I often start with a ’warm-up’ exercise in which the participants, supplied with sheets of paper and plenty of coloured pens, are asked to draw/make marks on pa…
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just read through the thread! 🙂
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No, it does not. Historically and fundamentally, Hamas does not support a permanent two-state solution because it officially refuses to recognize the right of Israel to exist. Its core charter calls for the establishment of a single Palestinian state covering all of historic Palestine.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A guide for the perplexed.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wordle 1,932 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 While all the attention was on Muttley’s predicament, a lone skater flew over the top of the bowl demonstrating impressive airtime. Who could it be?
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
😱
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wordle 1,929 6/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The hare tumbled downwards, unaware that there would soon be a crash landing.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wordle 1,923 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 As Muttley dozed by the hedge he was blissfully unaware of the stone racing competition taking place above him.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wordle 1,922 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Pursued by paparazzi, Muttley resorted to desperate measures.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wordle 1,921 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Muttley ran off to find some safer ground. Pausing (or pawsing) for a moment was not a good idea.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wordle 1,920 4/6 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The sun hadn’t moved in three days. Should the team be concerned ?
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wordle 1,919 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 As Muttley inspected what appeared to a rabbit hole the ground around him started to fall away revealing a large sinkhole.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wordle 1,918 4/6 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The sun has still got its hat on.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wordle 1,917 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Several hours later, Martha hadn’t moved.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good one, Jackie! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wordle 1,916 5/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Sēnor Llama stumbles on determinedly as the heavens opened and muttered to himself “‘Rhymes’, ‘Reens’ it’s all Greek to me!”
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wordle 1,915 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 As the bee colony approached Martha, Muttley and Saga fled the scene, but Sěnor Llama decided to throw himself into a nearby ditch,
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wordle 1,914 4/6 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 At the back of an overgrown latch of weeds they discovered an ancient vine. Sẽnor Llama picked one, tasted it and exclaimed “It Moscatel de Alejandría from my home country. How on earth did it get here!”
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Wordle 1,912 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Martha and Saga discovered that the butternut squash were jealously guarded by a particularly aggressive parrot.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wordle 1,911 6/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🎶 “Pumpkins are falling on my head…..”
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wordle 1,910 4/6 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 …and the pothole enquired as to everyone’s whereabouts.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wordle 1,909 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 “I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing.” Munia Khan
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wordle 1,908 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Perhaps Señor Llama should listened to the Shipping Forecast as he struggled against a Force 9 storm.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wordle 1,907 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Toboggan v. crevasse. Latter wins every time.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wordle 1,905 5/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It appears that Señor Llama has a head for heights.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Wordle 1,904 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Greetings all! The traveller returneth to the Wordle fold. Long 40th wedding anniversary road trip cum family visit in Canada. Ended up in Quebec City where we honeymooned. Who said romance was dead?
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
About 30 years ago at an early Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) conference in Northumbria I was playing the piano after dinner. Sally Brown asked if I could play Autumn Leaves. I couldn’t, but then learnt it. Never managed to play live for her, but I send her a video every autumn bit.ly/4qYtLCy
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Les Feuilles Mortes-Autumn Leaves Sept2026.mp4
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wordle 1,896 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I’m back, but Martha and Muttley are clearly unimpressed and I’ve no idea where Saga is.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Wordle 1,873 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The problem was that the honesty box tuck shop was perched somewhat precariously over a deep chasm.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wordle 1,868 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Congrats, Pauline. In my case it’s a matter of playing all the right letters but not necessarily in the right order!
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Wordle 1,867 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Martha and Saga attempted the aerial route through the trees. But where was Muttley?
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Wordle 1,866 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 “Hey, you two.” said Muttley, “As we’re such a great team, why don’t we try some synchronised swimming.” Martha and Saga just laughed as they continued to dive and jump into the pool.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Wordle 1,865 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It’s definitely ‘dog-days’ muttered Muttley.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
On this day, 81 years ago, my mother typed this and added it to her daily journal. #history #politics
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Wordle 1,864 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Muttley, managed to recover and rejoin the other two. Then the three set off in blissful ignorance of the obstacle that lay ahead of them.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Wordle 1,863 5/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Martha and Muttley could never resist a decent-sized pothole. Saga looked on muttering ‘This is not going to end well’.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Wordle 1,862 4/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Hidden deep in the verdant greenery of the wood it was impossible to spot them.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
www.maptap.gg July 18 89👑 99🎯 96🔥 84😁 86🎓 Final score: 890
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Wordle 1,855 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 As darkness fell, someone produced a torch.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Wordle 1,852 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That’s just ridiculous!
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Wordle 1,851 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not far away, a golden idol atop another ziggurat waited to be discovered.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Wordle 1,843 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 “Scrubbing the deck?” muttered Muttley, “Sod this for a game of sailors” and scrambled up to the crow’s nest.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Wordle 1,836 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Rather late in the day, Martha, Muttley and Saga found themselves swimming in a calm, shallow lagoon. Ringeaux and submarine had been thwarted.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Not a great fan of hydrangeas, but this, in our garden, is stunning.
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Captain Ringeaux stood on the poop deck and announced that “Punishment will continue until morale improves.”
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Paul Kleiman @paulrk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Wordle 1,833 2/6 🟩⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 No need to ‘up periscope’ as the submarine sat on top of a calm sea.
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