So... that was that

Just rode my bike back from what will be my last lecture of the Semester. Just over half the class of Introduction to Geochemistry students gained (hopefully!) some benefit from working through past exam questions.

I reminded myself, inadvertently, that there is not really that much to be said about a topic in three weeks of lectures. Particularly when I'm trying to get across some fundamental material about my discipline  - when it comes down to asking exam questions, they're mostly variations on a theme or even repetitive from year to year. Students with good exam technique will recognise this and exploit it - more power to them.

Oh yes - this is supposed to be a journal club blog. The club meetings have been at best sporadic this year and attendance is dwindling. Although I did talk to one of the PhD students who attends sometimes who mentioned that she used one of the papers (Davidson & Janssens 2006 - see here) we discussed for teaching first-year ecology. That's where I've gotten the most benefit so far from the Journal Club - it has enhanced my teaching.