Blog#4

Work
I enjoy working as a freelance staff and educational developer in higher education.

I enjoy the mixture of predictability:
"Will you run some workshops for us on ...?"

and variety:
"Will you evaluate this development project for us?"

and surprise:
"Will you help us to redevelop our postgraduate medical curriculum?"
But I don't know anything about medicine!
"Don't worry, we know about medicine, you know about curriculum development."

and astonishment:
"Will you come to Japan for 10 days and help us in our work on developing standards for University teachers and on forming a professional association staff and educational developers?"
Of course I will!

My strategy is, subject to workload and diary, to accept most offers of work.
"That doesn't sound much like a strategy."
I know. But it is. It has produced the mixture of predictability, variety, surprise and astonishment noted above. It keeps on stretching me. And I said 'most', not 'all'.


Life
On Sunday to Anglesey Abbey, Quy Road, Lode, Cambridge, a much-reconstruct priory converted to country house and frozen in time in 1966, where Pan protects the rose garden and visitors enjoy summer sun.






Other Stuff
1 As promised in Blog#2 - Notes in Outlook is an OK way to write posts. Inserting links and images within Blogger is then fine.
2 Thank you to Lawrie Phipps at JISC who (by example) got me into blogging.