Good Practice Blog

Unfortunately, I was not able to blog from all the sessions I attended (particularly difficult to do at those I presented at). Thanks to all the presenters, participants and Dee MacCormack, Sarah Leavesley and Vicky Shaw for all their hard work in organising this event.  It’s been an interesting week.
I ended my attendance this morning [...]

This morning we are focussing on teaching and technology. Chris Stokes started off talking about getting students to make podcasts. Brendan Stone from English spoke next about his use of blogs in teaching. Eugenia Cheng and Simon Willerton from Maths explained how they make youtube lectures. Adrian Moore from Music spoke about the different ways [...]

Rebecca Mathers (the Erasmus coordinator for SRAM) is starting off the session. She deals with the undergrad students who want to come or go to Australia, Canada, various parts of Asia (I heard places like Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore) and the US. She explained how she helps students who are going to other places that offer [...]

Margaret Freeman (HCS) and Tina McGuinness (Management) started the session off by asking the participants to move around the room and speak with each other about why they had come to the session. During the feedback part afterwards, Penny Simons (French) pointed out that many people were there because they practiced groupwork and were having [...]

Lunch has been eaten and now Tim Herrick (TILL), Michelle Marshall (Medicine) and Jolian McHardy (Economics) are speaking to how their different departments have approached .
Tim Herrick starts off by introducing TILL’s use of COMPASS to help their students’ transition to University. It is a multimedia website that offers videos and variety of advice and [...]