Category: Academic Development
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Annual review time
I am taking a brain break from semester prep and editorial work to prepare for my annual review tomorrow. And while I am looking at awards and invited contributions (keynote, workshops etc) there is no space to share real life stuff! I am leaving most of the health issues out as I have been whinging…
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Teaching as Community Property
So I was not able to access this book in an accessible format (only print version available) but I wanted to know what it is in. I asked Gemini if it can provide a summary: so it did. For anyone how was able to read the book how accurate do you think the representation of…
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Let’s talk analogue journaling
and slowing things down In spring one of my wonderful colleagues Mary McQuade lent me her copy of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and while I worked my way through the twelve week self-coaching, I began writing Morning Pages. Morning pages are a fairly straight forward writing technique: First thing in the morning, usually…
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Sunday thoughts: of showing-up and being present
Sometimes topics keep snagging my awareness until I pause and engage with them. One such topics over the last months was: presence.
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Treacle
if the day is like wading through treacle … free writing exercise … typos included (probably)
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Research Question Game Version 2
my-questiongame.web.app/ There would have been no way on earth I would have been able to put this game together without the help of Gemini Pro in such a short time and with such relatively low stress levels when trying to debug things. And I adore that I can learn coding as I go along with…
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I made a game
I made a game and need some people who are willing to test it! Could you please help me identify inconsistencies, by all means improvements to language (grammar, typos), and things that would be nice to have.
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Symbiotic Autoethnograpy
A very (very!) brief introduction to Symbiotic Autoethnography, with further reading and a webinar embedded.
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Looking for the story: how we teach our students to read academic texts
When we teach our students how to read academic (scientific) papers, we send them on a quest to identify the story amidst the academic writing conventions. I briefly show the 5 elements of story we also find in academic papers.
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Reading Strategy
It feels very empowering: the biggest writing project, after my PhD. I can now deliberately implement learning from the writing process, and cull all the things that didn’t work. So here is my reading strategy:
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New Note Making System Part 01: Keep track of reading
A journaling system for managing significant amounts of reading.
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My Top Three SoTL Highlights to Start the New Year
I have chosen my favourite three SoTL activities from last year. These are interesting resources which might be useful for anyone involved in #SoTL
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Transition Times for Work-Life-Balance
Better late than never, I joined the Wayfinders program again as this has significantly helped me last year, one of the big insights from the last round has been lingering in draft status ever since: The Problem In the middle of semester scrambling, I often fall into bad habits of forgoing exercise, and walks, and…