Good Practice Blog

Today I want to talk mashing: mainly mash-ups to be precise. There are a couple definitions. Well, probably lots of different ones. Essentially, you take two different (almost paradoxically different things) and mesh them together to form one never-before-thought-about unique creation! Da daaaa! Increasingly this is being done with software (if this hurts your brain, [...]

Am about to head off to the Christmas Carol service today here at the University so thought would post a themed post on the blog today.
People are talking about Web 3.0 already I know. But for most of us, I know that we’ve barely begun to come to terms with what Web 2.0 really [...]

I was a bit of a riotgrrl in the 90s (ah hee hee hee, showing my age here a little bit).  This mainly determined the music I listened to, clothes I wore, and ideologies I ticked during university I suppose although it felt like a much deeper and radical choice at the time.
What was interesting [...]

The University of Sheffield has been increasingly YouTubing it over the past year. Many of you will be aware of the “Dream Bigger Dreams” video and campaign. This is the “official” video:

There are videos that the University has asked students to make about their experiences here. One of the most recent was the “Sheffield Made [...]

Back to following up on an earlier blog on Thanksgiving and Facebook.
I ended with the idea of “us” and “we”. Who am I referring to when I talk about the “us” and the “we” of the teachingcommons?
This has a particular timeline really as things always do, at least in retrospect. The teachingcommons started off heading [...]