Class questionnaire: "If you'd like to add further information about your spoken English skills, please do so here." Student response: "I’d like to leave this empty in an effort to make up for the time lost by reading my previous brabblings and to add a sense of mystery and the unknown." #LoveHE

Happy Friday, happy weekend! This is me trying to put aside the news that we’re going to have about double the number of freshers this year that we’ve had in the last few years. 😑 #notmydecision #loveHE #butshithappens

Super useful admin exchange with someone from one of the other HE institutions in #Freiburg. #LoveHE

Fascinating day at #unifreiburg yesterday with a half-day crossdisciplinary meeting about coherence in teacher training, followed by Monika Fludernik‘s valedictory lecture & reception in the afternoon/evening. Old & new faces, fresh ideas, reminiscences. Totally peopled out today. 😅 But #LoveHE

TFW you’re a uni teacher who spends lots of time each week replying understandingly to e-mails from students excusing themselves from class. But YOU can never, EVER drop a class session yourself because you’d let x number of people down, and no one can cover for you. #LoveHE but it can be SHIT!

The new #Mendeley is so rubbish (I have to log in each time & wait 10 minutes for it to sync all articles before I can do anything) it's made the switch to #zotero
for new research a no-brainer. Anyone else? #loveHE

Feeling a bit emotional watching the final of Vitae’s 3-minute thesis #3MT competition. So much talent amongst our doctoral communities, and real passion for communicating their ideas to wider audiences. The future is bright. #LoveHE

https://twitter.com/goteamou/status/1605153284255367168?s=12&t=YAv7056UahWDQZZBebxprA I'm looking forward to seeing what AR and XR add as we develop them over the next year or so. Online learning works well when it blends techniques and approaches. #OnlineLearning #LoveHE

I am helping one colleague work out some train times, giving another a crash course in how to do diagrams in Word, and trouble-shooting a third's online entering of grades. This is most definitely NOT an ivory tower. And that is good. #unilife #softskills #loveHE