Sarah Slade

LIFE blew up again.

I started a new job with a major consultancy (check my LinkedIn if you’re really curious). It is an awesome place, but there are a lot of things to learn and a lot more things to get used to.

I lost my workroom. Well, it was in a good cause. We have a young relative from the other side of the world who is looking for a purpose in life, but the only thing she knows is that she doesn’t want to do it on THAT side of the world, so she’s over here, working out what to do next. And she needed somewhere to sleep, so bye bye workroom.

I had to write a TMA. It took up all my waking hours that weren’t spent at work. But I got a really rather good mark.

I launched into the second course in OUH880 – Adapting to Contexts – covering learning contexts (ie the conditions in which you learn). It was interesting, but not as interesting as the first course.

There was another TMA. It took up all my waking hours that weren’t spent at work for two weeks, and the instructions were hella prescriptive yet confusing at the same time. And while I got an unexpectedly rather brilliant mark, it didn’t stop me complaining to the course director.

Am now in the middle of the next course: Opening up Education. This one is better in some ways, but in other ways it’s frustrating because it doesn’t actually bear much relevance to my work context, so I’m having to imagine how it might work if I worked for a university or school (which I will never do again – that bridge was burned after Charlie was born).

Part of this course requires me to create an online portfolio – a kind of record of my thoughts. We haven’t had to do it for the rest of the course but hey. Anyway, the FutureLearn portfolio is fairly awful, so I’m going to copy over my current portfolio entries to this blog and keep slightly longer entries. I probably should make a page for them, actually.