Blog 1, 12/01/2021

I feel slightly exhausted after the first week of PGCert sessions mixed with my normal CL role. However, I also feel slightly relieved and excited after meeting my peers and realising they all have the same worries and feelings about maybe slightly dry content as well as finding the time. As this is my first blog, I am not really sure yet how I want to write or organise the posts, but it feels naturally to use it as my ‘safe space’ to gather my own thoughts and reflections. I guess as a personal diary (public though) so no Laura Palmer confessions.. From the Mondays session we naturally started a discussion about teaching practical content in a new digital evolution. This is an area where I have a lot of personal interest as well as both the issues and possibilities that’s directly related to my course and area. I am not going to reflect too much today, just want to get started. It was interesting putting myself in a student perspective and I did find after Mondays session vs today (Wednesday), that I much prefer the smaller groups to the big, wide ‘involve everyone’ kind of sessions. I find myself way too easily disconnecting and spacing out…