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Teaching Week - no, Month - no, don't we do that all the time?
06 May 08 12:56 PM
This is my attempt at live-blogging Teaching Month, which I keep referring to as Teaching Week and is actually two and a half weeks of events, so the term 'month' is loose to start with. I'm at the Vice-Chancellor's Invitational Lecture - I hadn't originally Read More...
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Virtual Research Week
18 September 07 09:42 AM
The PSA Research Careers Week (held 10-13 Sept) was a cornucopia of information for research students at any stage in their degree. From designing your thesis, to managing supervision and the mid-thesis doldrums, to examinations and what distinguishes Read More...
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Preparing to be Unprepared?
05 September 07 05:04 PM
At the moment I'm procrastinating over two workshops that I need to prepare. I hate preping workshops and will spend days trying to prep and simultaneously avoiding it. On the other hand, philosophically and practically, I like workshops as a mode of Read More...
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Be My Guest
27 August 07 09:44 AM
I'm giving a lecture in an English unit later today: I've taught in this unit in the past, though this time I'm just doing the one guest lecture. I think that I'm coming down with the flu that is going around (I'll blame Sanna, despite the fact my sister Read More...
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Open Letter to My Brain
23 May 07 09:58 AM
Dear Brain, I'd really prefer if you didn't wake me up at 5pm in the morning to come up with lesson plans for the next day's tutorial. But if you must, would you mind actually holding onto the plan you come up with? I can tell you that staring at a page Read More...
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Tutorials (the MasterCard version)
18 May 07 10:14 AM
Reading the text for the week: 3 hours Listening to the lectures: 2 hours Tutorial planning: half an hour Watching students scramble to cover up the fact that they have done none of the above: Priceless. Read More...
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Lecturing: Reflections
27 April 07 11:20 AM
I've given two lectures recently (Thursday last week, Tuesday this week) and was struck by the way my approach to lecture preparation has altered over time. Way back in the beginning (all of three years ago), lecture preparation meant anxiety, over-investment Read More...
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