First Podcast
So we are creating podcasts now. This one we talk about preparing for the new semester and coping with workload Continue reading First Podcast
Category: Academic Development
Curriculum Development and Storytelling
Dr N Tasler & Dr VHM Dale Story-Telling How to tell a story? So one of the things I want to achieve, but not entirely sure yet how to, is to make sure the new course my fabulous colleague Dr Vicki Dale and I develop has a story. It is coherent. I know we are … Continue reading Curriculum Development and Storytelling
Thinking Thoughts
When you stuff your brain glutinously with ideas and paradoxes that push you into cognitive dissonance trying to come up with a story and there is no anti-acid—or granny’s really expensive gentian-schnapps—that can help the brain to break the thought-food down as it does with overeating during the holidays, then what do you do? Mind-Map? … Continue reading Thinking Thoughts
A cuppa: the holy grail of meetings
Meetings of death Good gracious … we have so many meetings at the moment that I barely manage to get my lunch-break. If I take lunch-break I won’t answer emails, or I answer them during the meetings, or in the evenings. I am currently trying the not working in the evenings or on weekends thing … Continue reading A cuppa: the holy grail of meetings
The Autopoietic Teacher
This writing exercise is challenging. It feels as if I share snapshots of a road-trip without telling you where I was going. My thoughts a junction of a conceptualization exercise. Hoping a cartography of thought will emerge. Continue reading The Autopoietic Teacher
How to write regularly?
Trying out a writing challenge. 30 posts in 30 days: The next 30 days will not mark a full calendar month or some other sort of temporal meaningfulness. The only reason I use today, is that I have despite all the good advice not yet managed to create this every day routine. Which is just generally difficult for me–heck I am glad if I remember to moisturize! So beginning today gives me four days (including the weekend) where there are no excuses for not writing. It’s basically a little bit of a head-start. Continue reading How to write regularly?
Teaching as a Healing Art
Identity and integrity have as much to do with our shadows and limits, our wounds and fears, as with our strengths and potentials. (Palmer, 1997) Continue reading Teaching as a Healing Art
The Power of Reflective Practice
Reflective practice, in conversations, in writing, is the teacher’s secret weapon. It doesn’t matter if we teach at university, college, or school. The ability to look over our own shoulders (knowledge on action) can help us develop knowledge in action. Continue reading The Power of Reflective Practice
Blooming Taxonomies
Catching up and refreshing my knowledge about all kinds of educational theory and research–it was inevitable to stumble across Bloom’s Taxonomy again–The University of Iowa ‘s CELT has developed a really nice model. I am still not convinced. But I am supposed to teach it. So how do you teach something that you consider at … Continue reading Blooming Taxonomies
Bullet Journaling
Get Organized–Get Things Done One of my aims for this year was to become better organized to find a system. And Heureka! Whoohoo! Happy Dance! I have found it. From beginning: I have a myriad of journals which I write for different purposes and with varying consistency. One for projects, for meetings, for messy ideas, … Continue reading Bullet Journaling
Nathalie Tasler, PhD, SFHEA, MPhil, PGDip CCM, PGCert LTHE 