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Tag Archives: teach
David Mitchell’s ancestors and Rabelais (Rousse)
David Mitchell and I were meant to be studying, but we kept on catching one another’s eye across the library table. As I wondered what it must be like to be married to him (lucky Victoria Coren) I found it … Continue reading
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Tagged ancestor, ancestors, caravan, class, classes, concentrate, cruel, David Mitchell, deadline, dissertation, e-mail, email, grandfather, Isle of Skye, John Forbes, library, marry, parishioner, parishioners, Rabelais, reunion, reverend, sin, Skye, Sleat, study, sympathy, teach, term, University of Birmingham, Victoria Coren, Victoria Coren Mitchell, work
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Lecturing more stressful than teaching (Rousse)
SPC switched teaching for lecturing. Her verdict: the life of a university lecturer is much tougher than that of a school teacher.
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Tagged lecture, lecturer, school, stress, stressful, teach, teacher, tough, university
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Acrobat injured after demo goes wrong (Rousse)
The acrobat invited me on to the platform suspended above the audience. The idea was that she would teach me how to perform one of her perfect forward rolls. She attempted a demonstration – but landed awkwardly on her head, … Continue reading
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Tagged acrobat, audience, break, demo, demostration, head, injured, misadventure, neck, teach, wrong
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Knowledge Management on ice (Rousse)
This term I was studying the Knowledge Management module rather than teaching it. The new tutor brought in a number of major changes. For example, most of the classes were taught outdoors in the melting snow, and the regulation module … Continue reading
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Tagged bunk off, changes, classes, enormous, father-in-law, footwear, Germany, graduate, guest, hut, ice, ice-skates, indoors, knowledge management, literature, melt, niece, quiz, sea, seashore, snow, speaker, speakers, statement, statements, stature, study, teach, tutor, white board, wooden, Word
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Teenaged tutors at the University of Oxford (Rousse)
It was festival time in Edinburgh and celebrities were everywhere. When we passed a BBC van my niece BMcC recognised a famous drama director and Oxford academic. As B was a keen actress herself, and planning to take up a … Continue reading
A tale of courtly love (Rousse)
I read the new module descriptor with glee. I was being asked to teach a class on etiquette to computing students. This would give me the chance to use my first degree in my job (at long last), tracing the … Continue reading
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Tagged computing, courtly love, degree, descriptor, knight, knights, love, medieval, module, napkins, student, students, tablecloth, teach, teaching
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Rachel wins Ross back – again (Rousse)
My name is Rachel Green. You may remember me and my friends from a television documentary broadcast 1994-2004. We don’t see each other so often now – perhaps about once a month. Monica and Chandler are still married, have a … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Chandler Bing, Courtney Cox, David Schwimmer, finance, flirt, flirting, Friends, hair, inspector, Jennifer Aniston, Joey, Joey Tribbiani, make-up, makeup, Manhattan, Matt LeBlanc, Matt Perry, Monica Geller, nails, New York, New York University, Rachel, Rachel Green, Rachel Greene, Ross, Ross Geller, school, schools, teach, teaching, trainers
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Class-conscious Cotswolds offers mixed welcome (Rousse)
Everyone* we knew had moved to the Cotswolds. We drove down to see if life there would suit us too. My sister J set up an introduction for us with the vicar’s wife, also newly arrived in the village. The … Continue reading
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