It’s Thursday and normally my fortnightly blog post is published at this stage but as the post title says, it’s been a funny old week. Not funny in the ha-ha sense and this post aims to explain my thinking about where I’m at right now and where I’m going (in the direction of a PhDContinue reading “It’s been a funny old week”
Category Archives: 1. The Self
A sense of community – contribution to wellbeing
As the summer draws to a close, planning and preparation begins for a new academic year. In some respects it feels similar to coming into January and a new calendar year, and in a sense that’s exactly what this time of year is like for those of us involved in education, students and teachers alike.Continue reading “A sense of community – contribution to wellbeing”
Reflections on my first year of blogging
It’s been a year since I tentatively dipped my toes into the then cold waters of blogging to create a learning journal for myself, publishing my first post on 19 June 2017 at 2:50pm local time. The intention was for it to be a personal place to reflect on my learning, teaching and research journeyContinue reading “Reflections on my first year of blogging”
Chaotic organisation or organised chaos?
I’ve always thought of myself as an organised type of person, everything in it’s place even if it doesn’t appear so – you know the sort. I’m open to trying new things – technologies, note-taking techniques – in fact anything that will make my life more efficient. Since starting my current study programme, I’ve foundContinue reading “Chaotic organisation or organised chaos?”
An open letter to my students of #MN6052 AY2017/18
Featured image courtesy of Pixabay Our module has come and gone, assessment work has been graded and it’s time for reflection. By that I mean my own reflection since I’ve completed reviewing your submissions and that’s the topic of this blog post. At the start of the semester we struggled with dynamic interaction but IContinue reading “An open letter to my students of #MN6052 AY2017/18”
Lessons from the year that was 2017
It seems that reflecting on the year that has passed is something that bloggers do, but I don’t consider myself a blogger (yet!). Nevertheless, here are a few lessons that I’ve learned from 2017 and will use to guide me in 2018. They are not, however, New Year resolutions…. Time is a precious commodity, spendContinue reading “Lessons from the year that was 2017”
Sandra Flynn 