Full-on Friday

Another long day of work and well into the evening. CELTA work first thing and the course's Moodle went live late morning, so the candidates can now access all the pre-course work and the resource library. Course starts on 7th March. More or less finished the input timetable, assignment rota and teaching practice rota.  A lot more work this time round as I'm picking up the pieces after the person who was the main course tutor and worked in the centre for decades left.  I never had much to do with the centre's Moodle before and just did what I was told. Now I'm helping the centre organise the content on top of running the course. The Moodle is an ongoing task though and much has been archived and we'll go through it little by little.  I do have to make sure though that everything the candidates can access is correct and fits in with any changes I'm making to the course. Next week I'll be working on my input sessions and preparing teaching practice points for the candidates. It's my co-tutor's first time in a full assistant course tutor's role and I'm trying to support him and help him see how everything fits together, rather than him just doing things in isolation. 

The afternoon and into the evening was spent on preparing myself for 3 days of Aptis testing on a different, clunkier platform than our usual Aptis one, and using a new test specifically for the Japanese market.  This is a big project and will run from 9am UK time on Saturday till midnight UK time on Sunday.  My shifts are 2x3hrs back to back a day. Saturday and Sunday as examiner and Monday as a temporary senior examiner for this project. I hope it all goes ok!!  We all have to sign into Microsoft Teams (also new and less intuitive than Zoom!) at the start, say hello, then keep that running as a back channel during the testing so we can get any technical support. I'm nervous about it all to be honest. Fingers crossed. All live marking, no practice runs possible on the new platform. 

Embarrassing step count. An early dinner of some Japanese food at Chin's and an early night after watching The Apprentice. 

My blip is an emergency one of a few pieces of jewellery I keep in our downstairs bathroom. 

The situation in Ukraine is unbelievable and deteriorating. So heartbreaking.