Blog 9: Last Lecture

Blog 9: Last Lecture

The last lecture of bioprocessing has come and overall I must admit that I learnt a lot and just about managed to grasp what bioprocessing is all about, but I’ll get into that later in the blog. The teaching class is now only a week away and I’m slightly nervous about it as I’m usually not a fan of presentaions and this teaching class is very similar.

During our last lecture, Barry thought us all about the downstream purification process. What this was about is the technique on how to purify your product to the highest quality possible. As thought-provaking as this was to try and apply it to our kefir water process, we don’t really need to and It’s probably best not to fix something if it’s not broken.

At the end of the class Barry gave us the grading rubic for the teaching class next week. I believe what the aim was of giving us this rubic was to use it as a tool to build a good foundation for our presentation. In order to have a good teaching class we decided to meet a lot more this week to try and nail down the perfect class. We split the workload up to make time management most effective and efficient. As we finished off the presentaion and went through our individual sections to teach the class, we realised how much we have learnt from the start of the semester from knowing very, very little about bioprocessing to educating our classmates on it.

As I mentioned at the start of the blog, the last lecture is now over and I went from knowing practically nothing, to teaching a class next week. Over the weeks Barry thought us class by class the stages that we need to develop our bioprocessing process. For me he used relevent information and didn’t overload us with jargon that we wouldn’t understand and cause us to lose interest. The self learning method that he uses from the memo’s and assesments was also very helpful as well in my opinion as it didn’t feel like work as we were learning. Having applied this learning experience to our teaching class presentaion I now feel we can give an informative, helpful, enjoyable class to our peers and Barry. Hopefully it will go well.

I hope you manage to catch my last blog next week,

That’s all for now,

Sean.