Welcome to the fortieth Briefing and the tenth scheduled Briefing for 2014, and straight to new releases. ERA for Rolemaster For a number of months, Maximiliano Tabacman has been running playtests of his excellent character management software package for Rolemaster. ERA (Electronic Roleplaying Assistant) provides the ability to create characters at any […]
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Director’s Briefing – September 2014
Welcome to the thirty-ninth Briefing and the ninth scheduled Briefing for 2014. My August was sandwiched between the conference at the start and short trips to France and Spain in the final week. September in the real world for me will be writing materials for a new module (I did in the end acquire […]
Director’s Briefing – August 2014
Welcome to the thirty-eighth Briefing and the eighth scheduled Briefing for 2014. This month’s Briefing has been delayed by my excursion to the USA for a microscopy conference, but better late than never. Progress on the ToDo List RMU: The combined Arms Law & Character Law has gone through Marc Rosen’s editorial […]
Director’s Briefing – July 2014
Welcome to the thirty-seventh Briefing and the seventh scheduled Briefing for 2014. Marking and Grading I can confirm that marking and grading is an absolutely draining process, and just when you think it’s done, there’s another umpteen forms to fill in. I can also confirm that it did take out my entire […]
Director’s Briefing – June 2014
Welcome to the thirty-sixth Briefing and the sixth scheduled Briefing for 2014. Marking and Grading The teaching portion of the academic year is now complete. The nightmare that is marking and grading is already underway. Fortunately all the materials that I have to mark are word-processed (even the exam scripts) so I […]
Director’s Briefing – May 2014
Welcome to the thirty-fifth Briefing and the fifth scheduled Briefing for 2014. Encroachment over ALL the lectures have been completed and I am very happy to see the end of the preparation battle. Yes, there is marking to be done come the end of May but I’ve ensured by careful deadline setting […]
Director’s Briefing – April 2014
Welcome to the thirty-fourth Briefing and the fourth scheduled Briefing for 2014. Encroachment in its last throes The real-world battle has continued. The enemy sent in reinforcements -forty mock exam scripts, ten dissertation literature reviews, and eleven software project reports (where unlimited wordcount meant one of them was 100 pages long -definitely […]
Director’s Briefing – March 2014
Welcome to the thirty-third Briefing and the third scheduled Briefing for 2014. Encroachment fully underway My real-world battle with the lectures and assignments continues. There’s been some Dirty Fighting tactics from my opponent – having the students infect me with some unpleasant throat malady and cough caused some unexpected activity penalties. Despite […]
Director’s Briefing – February 2014
Welcome to the thirty-second Briefing and the second scheduled Briefing for 2014. Encroachment begins As I expected, my real-world job has commenced its encroachment upon my evenings and weekends, with a sneak attack known as exam and assignment marking (including second marking for colleagues which was an unexpected bureaucratic ambush). I am […]
Director’s Briefing – January 2014
Happy New Year to everyone. This is our thirty-first Briefing and is the first scheduled Briefing for 2014. I am back from an extended holiday overseas and am catching up on email and GCP projects, and am feeling refreshed from my break from the demands of students and reinvigorated by having seen the […]