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My go to answer is normally “ermmm… not much really” … however … During our microteaching sessions we … Learnt about 3D printing, the different types, how they work, how it’s done. The technical side and the creative side through an amazing exploration of three very different types of 3D printed objects and all demonstrated… Continue reading “Did you do anything interesting today?”

And the only way out is to ‘make some NOISE’. There are times when silence is so loud it becomes unbearable. The beginning of a teaching session saw the co-tutor and I setting up the Padlet which echoed across the for extra-large display screens. The Padlet was filled with an array visual research students had… Continue reading Silence is … a murky shade of grey

I glanced up and saw my student scribbling away in their notebook, head down so close to the page I’m sure their nose was touching it. They were focused and oblivious to what was going on in the studio, to what I had just been speaking to the rest of the students about, to what… Continue reading A complex situation

The idiom ‘a rabbit caught in headlights’ pretty much sums up my reaction when as a student I had to endure crits. I dreaded them. Shocked, frozen, panicked, paralysed with fear, unable to think, much less speak; the sudden, unexpected situation of being confronted (picked on) by a (seemingly) all knowing tutor as my peers… Continue reading Rabbit caught in headlights