Category: LearningAndTeaching
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Command Words Chaos
Using white plastic cups for critical thinking skills From the archives (Sept 2013). A colleague at the time had asked me to share this exercise. So I wrote it into a post. Last week I had my first cohort of students (a programme that starts slightly off sync with the rest of the university) this…
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Digital Storytelling, GDPR, and MS PowerPoint
authors: Dr N Tasler & Dr VHM Dale As part of our Creative Pedagogies for Active Learning course, we are running a digital storytelling session led by my partner in crime Dr Vicki Dale. Now last year Vicki offered Sway or–if people wanted to try–Adobe Spark (inspired by a session Dr Monica Chavez ran) as…
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Enhancing Student Learning: What are you looking for?
I think it is time for a mini blog series on how to enhance student learning. Where the idea came from: I was in the middle of preparing my course documents and digital artefacts, to upload into the VLE when I suddenly noticed one of my Sway presentations had almost 7000 views! Normally its nothing…
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The Issue with Lecture Capture
I am just out of a meeting where we planned a half day lecture training session and the discussion around lecture capture came up. As a learner, a student, I would have loved lecture capture and when contemplating why it constitutes such a problem to me two issues were emerging: The issue of permanence When…
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Podcast for workplace mentors
So I am dabbling in something new this semester. I think I need to watch more YouTube videos on how to podcast! 😀 In a conversation with my colleague today we came to the conclusion that we will never be entirely happy with any content we put out there, but that should not stop us…
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Re-blog: The scholarship of learning and teaching: a victim of its nomenclature?
Scholarship historically suggests there are elements of reading, of engaging with other scholars’ and researchers’ thoughts and publications. It is a historical exercise analysing and critiquing a body of existing knowledge. The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) also necessitates a strong element of reflectivity – or better reflexivity – to become a meaningful activity.…
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WOOP
This contribution to your abbreviation bingo vocabulary is all about productivity. Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions Also known as WOOP (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan) is something I just stumbled across when trying to–once again–find new hacks to encourage The Brain to stop with procrastination. I know, I know bit late to he WOOP game. Wish:…
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The Narrative Arch as Curriculum Design Tool
Course Planning Revisited A brief touch base, now that the course ran its second iteration, with a full participation list initial post * . You might remember that we adapted Freytag’s narrative arch to develop a framework for curriculum planning–rather humorous since Freytag’s pyramid is considered particularly helpful when writing dramas. However, so far it…
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Finding your voice
Finding a new voice for my blog. A quick Hallo some musings and photos from camping in Scotland #AcDev #HigherEd #EdChat #Iwrite #Writing #academicwriting
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ALT Winter Conference–Our Recorded Session
The lovely people from the #ALT Winter Conference have already uploaded the recordings from our sessions yesterday. #disruptivepedagogies #activelearning #edtech #storytelling
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Enabling Academic Staff to Engage with Disruptive Pedagogies Using Active Learning Technologies
In this presentation we are sharing how we engaged participants in the PGCap Programme with using Active Learning Technologies. Some of the participants allowed us to share their digital artefacts with you.
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Creating a Story about Space and Place
Today Vicki @vhmdale and I are presenting our active learning model at the ALT Winterconference. This is the first presentation.
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Active Learning and Christmas Festivities
This is our (Dr Vicki Dale and mine) blogpost now ready on the LTHEChat website. Join us next Wed (12th of December) in @LTHEChat in a conversation about active learning and disruptive pedagogies
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What is active learning?
To start you off on this path for reflection: this is how learning sometimes feels to me and often in exactly the moment the tracks disappear there is breakthrough. More to follow this is just to get back into writing. The little film is the introduction to a session for our active learning course, introducing…
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On the quest for a virtual exhibition platform
I want to use virtual exhibition for my students to showcase the artifacts they develop throughout the semester. There are some OER platforms out there we could experiment with. However, GDPR and accessibility (and well design) demand the use of institution approved software. We (students and staff) all have the Office 365 suit and some…