Category: INSPIRATION

By Marie-Christine Lefebvre, Lecturer in Communications. My colleague Nathalie is a teacher at a horticultural and landscape gardening training college. On her courses, outdoor study is just as important as classroom-based learning. Plant observation is one of the most important skills her students have to develop: observing, comparing, recording changes and differences, reproducing and putting them together.

By Marie-Christine Lefebvre, Lecturer in Communications When you’re a lecturer how do you go about marking your students’ papers as and when you like, including while on the train, while spending a weekend at your parents-in-law or while sat in the car waiting to pick up your kids, and then securely archiving the papers?

By Marie-Christine Lefebvre, Lecturer in Communications When organising training sessions on neuroscience, I use mind maps as an educational tool with the trainees. This visual method of organising information provides a means of structuring a concept by showing the relationships among pieces of the whole. It improves memorisation.

My desk is collapsing under the weight of paper on it. My inbox tells me every morning that I have more than 200 unread messages. In short, I’m not exactly a pro when it comes to organisation. But this year, I’ve made up my mind: it’s all going to change with the Zen to Done or ZTD method!

It’s a known fact that writing by hand stimulates the memory and concentration zones of our brain. 

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