PathwaytoPhD is back from sabbatical – where did those four months go? In truth, it was a sabbatical from this blog and during this time I still wrote a little (for my local Tidy Towns group), I read a little more (advance reading for my PhD ahead) and did a bit of organisation thanks toContinue reading “And so it begins…”
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It’s been a funny old week
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”
Organising the chaos… hello Trello
In my newly created bullet journal I have a page dedicated to blog ideas for September. Regular readers will know that I currently only write two blogs per month but it’s a step in the direction of organisation and this post is about the first of those ideas, sharing how I’ve recently come to startContinue reading “Organising the chaos… hello Trello”
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”
Organising the chaos… bullet journalling
Monday was a holiday this week here in Ireland and it’s the day when I usually give some thought to what I might write in my blog scheduled to post every two weeks at the moment. I would like to have a pipeline of content to write about but it just hasn’t happened that wayContinue reading “Organising the chaos… bullet journalling”
Building community… the question of reciprocity
In my last blog post I starting thinking about the concept of lurking in an online community and whether it is a good or bad thing. My instinct tells me that the term is a negative one, that lurking isn’t a good thing since it’s one-sided and no reciprocity exists. So, I did a littleContinue reading “Building community… the question of reciprocity”
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