I’m still in Australia!
The ISSoTL (International Society for the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) conference finished last Friday. I took a
plane from Melbourne to Sydney, and this week I have been doing some work at
the University of Wollongong. On Monday
I gave a seminar to WATTLE – the Wollongong Academy of Tertiary Teaching and
Learning Excellence (evidently the wattle bird is a significant local
symbol). The title of my workshop was
‘On the way to being a SoTL scholar’.
About 25 people attended and fully engaged with my presentation.
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| Peter continues to keep people awake |
Today I spent some time in Sydney with
Professor Patrick Crookes. We visited a
nursing museum. We intended just to pop
round in about 10 minutes, but the matron (that’s the only word for her,
really) insisted on showing us the whole thing, including a detailed
explanation of everyone in each of the sepia-tinted photographs. I took some pictures of ancient anaesthetic
machines especially for Deborah and the ODP team.
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| Fan base builds up down under |
Tomorrow – Wednesday – I’ll be doing
another workshop, this time for the nursing department. I’ll be speaking about the use of creative
writing techniques in nursing education and inviting colleagues to collaborate
who are interested in researching the use of language in healthcare.
I’ll be back on Monday, bright and early! I
hope my plants haven’t died.
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| Slight improvement on a mallet |
See you
next week
Peter
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