Personal Blogs

I started distance learning with the Open University on 2001. I’m a better student than I am an employee ADHD and assorted challenges probably having something to do with it - I’m unduly suspicious and untrusting of people and easily bored. A happy working life for me means juggling three or four part time jobs and paid or paying hobbies.

Meanwhile I’m back in Coursera and onto the third of five modules on Project Management. I’m impressed with the content and the pedagogy. It’s pleasing to see how learning online has evolved and how practices that become apparent in my time have been adopted. Technological advances, relentless improvements and experience means that the science of learning is understood - you are made to listen, take note, struggle, be tested and as a result the knowledge being shared slowly accrues. I want to apply practical tips on project management into my Town Council work, maybe in a task & finish group for the swimming club and perhaps even getting myself back into video production which I so loved in the 1980s and 90s. On verra.

I have up social media a month ago. No X, Facebook or Instagram, no doom scrolling. If the BBC doesn’t stop quoting Elon Musk every time he makes an arse of himself on X I am going to ditch BBC news as well.