12th November 2007
8am: Dealt with several e-mails from students with queries, and made appointments to meet with some of them later in the day. Set up this FEC Blog.
8.30: Preparing materials for 9am tutorial
9.00: 1st-year tutorial class
10.00: Attended start of 1st-year lecture class to present prizes to 2 students.
10.10: Updating my online access to the Authors' Licensing and Copyright Society, dealing with information from other departments about forthcoming teaching commitments, and further requests from students.
10.30-11.00: Checking materials for tomorrow's classes.
11.00-1200: Visits from students with assorted academic questions.
12.00: Working on new paper that I'm writing with Simon for Progress in Physical Geography. I hope to get this submitted by the end of this month, so "working on PIPG paper" should feature prominently in the November FEC Diaries!
12.15-12.40: Student visitors with academic queries/problems
12.40-1.20: Working on PIPG paper
1.20-1.30: Helping a student
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6pm-8pm: Thinking and learning. One part of my job comes under the general heading of "scholarship". That includes a variety of activities where I'm studying or researching my subject area not for a specific piece of teaching and not for a specific ongoing research project but as part of the constant process of keeping up with the discipline or exploring possible new directions for teaching and research. It's time where I learn things and think about things. It includes getting information and inspiration from readings or other sources, and playing around with the ideas and information I come up with. So when I put "Thinking and learning", it probably means I've been reading about something with a connection to Geography in a way that could be counted as work if I had to charge by the hour but could equally be counted as personal or professional academic development. In FEC terms it comes under the blanket term "scholarship"... so next time I write "2 hours scholarship" you'll know what I mean!
8.00-8.30: dealing with a few more e-mail and WebCT teaching-related tasks, and setting up some meetings for assorted administrative tasks over the next week or two.
Looking back at the day, it turns out (as usual) that I remember doing things that I didn't record - mainly conversations with colleagues about day-to-day admin and teaching issues today. On balance, it's been a rather unsatisfactory day: I didn't spend as much time as I wanted on my current Big Job of writing the PIPG paper - partly because the afternoon was taken out my a non-work commitment and by evening I was too tired to get down to it... oh well, try again tomorrow!
Summary for the day:
Teaching formal contact - 1 hour
Student individual meetings - 1.5 hours
Teaching preparation - 1 hour
Research and writing - 1 hour
Scholarship - 2 hours
General admin - 0.5 hours
TOTAL formal work - 7 hours
8.30: Preparing materials for 9am tutorial
9.00: 1st-year tutorial class
10.00: Attended start of 1st-year lecture class to present prizes to 2 students.
10.10: Updating my online access to the Authors' Licensing and Copyright Society, dealing with information from other departments about forthcoming teaching commitments, and further requests from students.
10.30-11.00: Checking materials for tomorrow's classes.
11.00-1200: Visits from students with assorted academic questions.
12.00: Working on new paper that I'm writing with Simon for Progress in Physical Geography. I hope to get this submitted by the end of this month, so "working on PIPG paper" should feature prominently in the November FEC Diaries!
12.15-12.40: Student visitors with academic queries/problems
12.40-1.20: Working on PIPG paper
1.20-1.30: Helping a student
.................................................
6pm-8pm: Thinking and learning. One part of my job comes under the general heading of "scholarship". That includes a variety of activities where I'm studying or researching my subject area not for a specific piece of teaching and not for a specific ongoing research project but as part of the constant process of keeping up with the discipline or exploring possible new directions for teaching and research. It's time where I learn things and think about things. It includes getting information and inspiration from readings or other sources, and playing around with the ideas and information I come up with. So when I put "Thinking and learning", it probably means I've been reading about something with a connection to Geography in a way that could be counted as work if I had to charge by the hour but could equally be counted as personal or professional academic development. In FEC terms it comes under the blanket term "scholarship"... so next time I write "2 hours scholarship" you'll know what I mean!
8.00-8.30: dealing with a few more e-mail and WebCT teaching-related tasks, and setting up some meetings for assorted administrative tasks over the next week or two.
Looking back at the day, it turns out (as usual) that I remember doing things that I didn't record - mainly conversations with colleagues about day-to-day admin and teaching issues today. On balance, it's been a rather unsatisfactory day: I didn't spend as much time as I wanted on my current Big Job of writing the PIPG paper - partly because the afternoon was taken out my a non-work commitment and by evening I was too tired to get down to it... oh well, try again tomorrow!
Summary for the day:
Teaching formal contact - 1 hour
Student individual meetings - 1.5 hours
Teaching preparation - 1 hour
Research and writing - 1 hour
Scholarship - 2 hours
General admin - 0.5 hours
TOTAL formal work - 7 hours
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