Blog 7: Review Week

Blog 7: Review Week

This week I had a week off from college as you can probably gather from the title of this blog. My thesis is desk based so I decided to stay at home down the country for the week as I don’t have to attend any labs. I took most of this week to get an upper hand on my thesis and to be honest not a lot of bioprocessing was done.  However the teaching class was now on the horizon and I knew there was a bit of preperation I could be doing for that during the review week.

I discussed with Aidan and Shane on our little Wattsapp group that maybe doing a slideshow to teach the class would be more helpful than using our website as the website still wasn’t finished and the slideshow would pick out the exact elements that we wanted to teach to the class rather than rooting for them on the day of the class on the website and going over our 10 minute limit. We all thought about this and agreed that this would be the best way to teach the class.  

Again, like the infograph, we believed that the best way to go about doing this presentaion would my keeping the crowd interested and to have as little writing as possible on the slides. Pictures on the slides and us, the teachers, expalining them would be the best way to keep the crowd interested. At the end of the presentaion we decided that having an educational game about bioprocessing would be a good way to finish off the class. We can then give out little gimmicks as prizes. We haven’t yet decided what type of game would be best but we can decide on that closer to the time.

With my time off this week, it allowed me to reflect on what the bioprocessing class is all about. It’s primarily there to develop our knowledge on bioprocessing, but it does this in a way that you educate yourself by doing a bulk of the work on your own and with your group members without really realising it, by completing the memos and meeting up with your group each week to develop the process that we’re working on. None of this feels like boring college work and you would nearly, not quite, but nearly enjoy doing it.

That’s, all for today,

See you next week, hopefully,

Sean.