...what will it take ... (109/365, 19 Apr 2022)
Into the office today for two online courses and a meeting, of course (although my meetings have decreased along with those emails). One course is a course I've been forced into taking, despite my protestations on academic and specialist grounds...but I digress. What I have to do is teach the basics of SDGs to aspiring first-year accounting students. I can assure you they want to hear from a political scientist in this early stage of their uni studies even less than I want to teach it. But teach it I must...
At the end of a difficult day, I went to my calming device...water, the port and canals near the campus. It can be kind of pretty as the sunlight fades and street lamps start to light up. But also, yet again, as I was thinking about today's SDGs class, I noticed the rubbish that floats, that gets caught on the tides. I was telling students today that as part of their assessment for this course, they can 'write' a diary of their observations over the next few weeks or they can present their work using images, drawn, or as it turns out, photos...just as these ones I took today show that we still have a long way to go.
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| One of the training fleet in port |
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| Just as the lights came on |
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| Some greenery |
So even when I go for a walk to calm the senses, it nearly always turns into an experience for the classroom. I will certainly be showing these pics to the students...this is happening, right here in our campus precinct.
This evening with the Canon EOS M5, 18-150mm, but also wishing I had a method to pick-up the rubbish (you would actually need to be on the water...there isn't a safe area or 'shore' to walk along here unfortunately).
