Category: LearningAndTeaching
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Paraphrasing versus Summarizing
Making students truly understand the difference between summarizing (as establishing the essence, the key messages of a text) and paraphrasing (as rewording someone’s ideas, or arguments into ones own words), is rather difficult. So I needed some help, and recruited YouTube. Before I delved into explaining differences between summarizing and paraphrasing, I made the students…
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Mastering Balloons
Using Balloons to Explore Argument Structures at Master Level So I wanted master students in the College of Social Sciences to understand the basic argument structure from premise to conclusion. Experiencing that it is not in all cases a straight forward logical structure. The Prep Work I found journal articles that are relevant to the…
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Department Rules: My ‘Brain Pickings’ Favourite
I follow a myriad of pages and groups online perpetually looking for ideas, incentives, challenges and anything and everything that could inform my work. One of my favourites is: http://www.brainpickings.org/ The ten rules for teachers and students easily translate into the context of higher education. The picture below is from the latest blog-post. Rule 1 …
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More Adventures in Teaching Undergrads
Using museum’s techniques for teaching got me hooked, I am completely revamping my workshops and lectures. This year, I will have some rather big classes, in which group work and a dialogue with students will become near to impossible. The Problem Experiential (of course) one of the most difficult things to ask a first and…
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Experimenting with infographics
Addendum 2021: since 2013 things have moved on a bit and h5p offers now more possibilities for creating interactive graphics or graphic layouts. http://infogr.am/beta/
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Trying out @stripgenerator
I had to share this. So my colleague found this gadget. And since we are currently preparing starter packs for new students I just had to experiment. Addendum 2021: Strip-Generator seems to be out of commission now. However, I found a freeware option that is working (May 2021) Comic Strip Maker Online & Free –…
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Trying out Homework
As part of my professional development I am undertaking a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education. We were tasked to contribute to a Blog within our VLE reflecting on respect. Strangely enough I feel safer to try out my homework on my own turf (so to speak) before posting it into the VLE’s blog.…
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My meme, your meme, everybody wants meme meme
You know how a couple of months ago I had this cat obsession and tried to find out why we are so obsessed with sharing cat-pictures in social media? Yeah, well this time. I am all into MEMES! They cover anything from how to survive the Zombie apocalypse to very snarky comments about REF. (Okay,…
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10 Minute Lecture – Methodology Chapter
Almost ten minutes and almost ten years later I did it, first experiment with movie making software.This under 10 minute lecture is about writing a methodology chapter it is aimed for final year and master class students. It will give you a brief overview of the main points. Slide two gives a 1 minute introductory…
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Data Presentation, Analysis and Language
This is a blog response to Bookling who wrote an interesting post this morning that concurs with my own questions. I have occasionally ranted about my issues with appropriate data representation, which symptomatic for ethnography, can be quite messy. I will write an update on this once I am done with the final draft of…
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Learning About Ethnography
The Ender Saga – Book 2 Not too long ago a famous ethnographer wrote that as an ethnographer one needs to read, to appreciate all forms and styles of reading, not only scientific texts, but fiction and tales and even poems. Sometimes I wonder, if somehow in writing, universal truth is established as subtext, even…