Well, that was a long day but a productive and eventful one.
More checking emails on the way home – oops – battery has nearly gone – and then replying from home. Check the e-learning support again – one student cant access some electronic resources (again!).
After the earlier seminar: check my position on Google and [...]
One of my King’s student had invited me along to an event she was participating in. This was an interactive seminar with a focus on marketing and social media with three professionals (including her) talking about how to use (and how they used) social media. The emphasis was on ways to promote yourself online: ‘marketing [...]
The afternoon speaker was enjoying himself so much he stayed until the end after which I bought him coffee and cake at the UCL Print Room Cafe (a cheap price to pay) before hurrying off to the bus stop to get to the Southbank.
This is a favourite of mine. We have guest speakers and then that is followed by a (student led) seminar – so less talking from me.
Today’s session is Health Informatics with a speaker (and friend of mine) who’s a researcher at CHIME here at UCL although based at Highgate.
This was a great session. An excellent [...]
a quick break for lunch (with more coffee) and reply to more emails. Then it’s back to the teaching room for the afternoon session.
And this one here hanging over the side …
they look happy
And then off to the computer room for the practical session
Simon ‘pointing’ out the finer points of XPath with the newly discovered pointy stick (thanks Claire!)
Boot up computer / drink coffee / reply to email / gather thoughts and class notes / drink more coffee (it’s a long day). What have I left behind?
Check my e-learning support discussion forum – any problems:
not today!
Off to class.
Thursday is my teaching day and I had very little time to post anything but this is the update.
The working day starts with checking email on my phone on the tube to the office! It means I lose 20mins sleep (what I used to do on the tube) but gets me off to a start. [...]