Another day at work
7.30 got to work, made coffee, checked e-mails etc.
8.00 setting resit question for students who failed module esc-10022, sending question to office and setting up electronic submission for plagiarism detection. This may be a mistake: it might be easier not to know if the students are trying to cheat.
8.30 have read recent student postings onto the online discussion boards for my modules, and responded to a few of the posts. This may have been a mistake: it might be better to let them talk amongst themselves for longer before intervening.
9.00 have arranged set-reading for the week-6 Regional Landsystems tutorial, and put both the reading and a set of instructions/advice onto the WebCT page for the module. This was certainly a mistake in that I should have done it last week but just never had the time!
9.30 received a memo from the Vice Chancellor asking me formally if I would accept the post of Chair of the University Examination Appeals Committee, so I just wrote a memo back to say yes. This may have been a mistake, as well.
Break: off to walk the dog, do a bit of birdspotting and have a coffee and lorry-spot with Debbie for an hour or so.
Upon my return: (11.00 - 3.30) discussed plans for open day with a colleague; discussed plans for next week's teaching with a colleague; asked the Head of School if it would be OK to involve a new member of staff in a particular set of teaching; ran a 1st-year tutorial; met with a student to discuss his recent results and progress with his essay; reviewed a set of proposals for reform of the University Examination Appeals Committee; etc.
I had an e-mail from somebody called "Ib" at the European Commission in Brussels who seems to think I'm going to a meeting there to review some scientific proposals. Is Ib a man's or a woman's name, I wonder? They want my bank details so they can pay me, which is nice, but there seem to be lots of forms to fill in and it seems I have to go to Brussels, which is less nice. Very confusing: I shall try to ignore it for today and make a decision tomorrow having slept (or lain awake) on it. I also got an e-mail from the Exam Tutor telling me it was time to set the summer exam papers for my modules.
Break: off to help Debbie with horse, walk the dog, have some tea, etc., for a couple of hours.
Tea turned out to be two Easter eggs and four bars of chocolate, so if they find me slumped over the keyboard half way through this sentence you'll know why. They were only small bars of chocolate: from inside the Easter eggs! Nevertheless, so much chocolate when I was planning to have a nice piece of fish was almost certainly a mistake.
5.00 - 7.00 During the evening: dealt with a steady flow of e-mails and assorted other messages from students ("why can't I see my marks in the online system?" "can I meet you to talk about my dissertation", "I liked that tutorial, thanks", "I didn't like that lecture", "Can I put you down as a referee on my job application", etc...); constructed an exam paper for the ESC-10023 in-class assessment that I am running next week; worried a bit about all the things on my list that I haven't done yet. Decided to stop, and am now going to go and get beaten (probably) at chess by some Danish bloke I met online a couple of days ago! Hey Ho - well we saw some woodpeckers today, anyway!
8.00 setting resit question for students who failed module esc-10022, sending question to office and setting up electronic submission for plagiarism detection. This may be a mistake: it might be easier not to know if the students are trying to cheat.
8.30 have read recent student postings onto the online discussion boards for my modules, and responded to a few of the posts. This may have been a mistake: it might be better to let them talk amongst themselves for longer before intervening.
9.00 have arranged set-reading for the week-6 Regional Landsystems tutorial, and put both the reading and a set of instructions/advice onto the WebCT page for the module. This was certainly a mistake in that I should have done it last week but just never had the time!
9.30 received a memo from the Vice Chancellor asking me formally if I would accept the post of Chair of the University Examination Appeals Committee, so I just wrote a memo back to say yes. This may have been a mistake, as well.
Break: off to walk the dog, do a bit of birdspotting and have a coffee and lorry-spot with Debbie for an hour or so.
Upon my return: (11.00 - 3.30) discussed plans for open day with a colleague; discussed plans for next week's teaching with a colleague; asked the Head of School if it would be OK to involve a new member of staff in a particular set of teaching; ran a 1st-year tutorial; met with a student to discuss his recent results and progress with his essay; reviewed a set of proposals for reform of the University Examination Appeals Committee; etc.
I had an e-mail from somebody called "Ib" at the European Commission in Brussels who seems to think I'm going to a meeting there to review some scientific proposals. Is Ib a man's or a woman's name, I wonder? They want my bank details so they can pay me, which is nice, but there seem to be lots of forms to fill in and it seems I have to go to Brussels, which is less nice. Very confusing: I shall try to ignore it for today and make a decision tomorrow having slept (or lain awake) on it. I also got an e-mail from the Exam Tutor telling me it was time to set the summer exam papers for my modules.
Break: off to help Debbie with horse, walk the dog, have some tea, etc., for a couple of hours.
Tea turned out to be two Easter eggs and four bars of chocolate, so if they find me slumped over the keyboard half way through this sentence you'll know why. They were only small bars of chocolate: from inside the Easter eggs! Nevertheless, so much chocolate when I was planning to have a nice piece of fish was almost certainly a mistake.
5.00 - 7.00 During the evening: dealt with a steady flow of e-mails and assorted other messages from students ("why can't I see my marks in the online system?" "can I meet you to talk about my dissertation", "I liked that tutorial, thanks", "I didn't like that lecture", "Can I put you down as a referee on my job application", etc...); constructed an exam paper for the ESC-10023 in-class assessment that I am running next week; worried a bit about all the things on my list that I haven't done yet. Decided to stop, and am now going to go and get beaten (probably) at chess by some Danish bloke I met online a couple of days ago! Hey Ho - well we saw some woodpeckers today, anyway!
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