Participants were welcomed to the second iteration of the online PACT course with a clear statement of its aims: The aims of the PACT badge are to familiarise you with the PD framework, to encourage you to use the PD framework to develop effective PD strategies, and to develop your PD learning community. We encourageContinue reading “Goodbye blog, hello learning portfolio 👋”
Category Archives: 2. Professional Identity, Values and Development
An open letter to my students of #MN6052 AY2018/19
Our module has come and gone, assessment work has been graded and it’s time for reflection. By that I mean my own reflection rather than yours, many of which have inspired this blog post (or ‘blessay’ given its length at just over 1,000 words) and your insightful direct quotes are scattered liberally throughout. Here goes…Continue reading “An open letter to my students of #MN6052 AY2018/19”
My name is Sandra and I am a teacher…
In last month’s post I referred to my planned research project for Module One of my structured PhD programme, the first draft of which is due for peer review in a week’s time. Being a logical sort of person, I drafted my introduction and literature review, in the knowledge that both will need to be edited duringContinue reading “My name is Sandra and I am a teacher…”
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”
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”
Stepping Stones
Reflecting on Week 1 of the MOOC ‘Discovering Your PhD Potential: Writing a Research Proposal’ offered by the University of Leicester via FutureLearn, I have given a lot of thought to the challenges involved in obtaining a doctorate. Time and cost are obvious ones but I need to give some thought to the more fundamental challengeContinue reading “Stepping Stones”
Sandra Flynn 