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What is a ‘teacher’?

May 12, 2021

in Education, Research, Scholarship, Teaching

administrator, brand manager, counselor, curator, marketer, organiser, professional role, publish, role, social justice, support, teaching, technical support, writer

The role of the teacher is expanding into more diverse fields than ever before. Not only must the teacher have a strong foundation in their professional discipline but they are increasingly expected to take on new roles on a fairly regular basis. What does this look like?
Faculty writing workshop

Jul 10, 2009

in Photography, Research, Social media

abstract, academic writing, communication technology, delicious, digg, facebook, flickr, Houwhoek Inn, journal editor, physiotherapy, publish, research, social software, social software tools, south africa, twitter, wikipedia, youtube

I just got back from an academic writing workshop at the Houwhoek Inn (their site needs some serious work). The point was to go there with an idea of an article you were going to write, spend 3 days writing it and getting feedback from the other participants and to end up with a draft…