27.04.’21 — Face to Face Teaching and Quick Tasks

Face to Face Teaching

As of two weeks ago, our course was lucky enough to open up to have face-to-face teaching again, after a long six months away from the BCU campus.

Firstly, I am so grateful for the tutors for putting in all of their hard work to make the students as comfortable and satisfied as possible with offering both in person or online tutoring. That has made the easing back to normality such a manageable step, by offering one day face to face and one day online, for example.

I am finding in person teaching is starting to resemble how university was before the pandemic, in the sense that we can discuss subjects in person, get tips about from tutors far more easily and so on, but of course, it is not quite the same. Nonetheless, I am so glad we are slowly but surely headed in that direction of normality.

Quick Tasks: Martin’s object describing task

Yesterday on campus, as a way of us getting our heads in gear and ready for ideation in our groups, Martin did an object describing task where we spoke about the physicality, the functionality and the emotional associations with this object. This was genuinely just good fun and a good laugh to do on campus with my pals and tutors all getting involed.

Quick Tasks: Jane’s Create a GIF task

And finally, as part of some of the face to face teaching and keeping the tasks light and quick, Jane set a 20 minute task to make a GIF of a piece of type. What I ended up really enjoying about this task was that I hadn’t practiced making a GIF in over a year and was refreshed and reminded by tutors in a really fun way in university. I was pretty nervous at the start of the task as I knew many people on the course would likely produce something really impressive but I was so happy to have produced something I was proud of for myself in that time.