Good Practice Blog

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 [...]

Continuing our series on this year’s Senate Award winners are two outstanding individuals - Dr Tim Herrick and Professor Anne Peat. Although in diverse fields, both are similar in their focused interest on student welfare and issues.
Tim Herrick
(School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences)

Tim at the TeachingCommons launch
Winner of the Rising Stars, Tim is [...]

I’ve mentioned before that Tim Herrick and Willy Kitchen would be posting shortly on their new innovation. What a brilliant idea it is: weaving together all the resources that you know are out there but have no way of accessing exactly when you need them unless they happen to be close to hand or a [...]

The April 15th Case Studies Workshop on “Students Assessing Feedback” was again well-attended. Thanks to all of you who came out. We had a very wide-ranging discussion that covered both summative and formative assessment. We began with Eric Olson from Philosophy sharing a feedback form he uses and discussing who, why and how to give [...]

Today Tim Herrick posts…I think he makes some very good points indeed. No arguments from me at all. No, nope, na uh.
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I’ll fess up.  I agreed to do this for Nadine because I wanted to pick up hints on how to make a wiki work.  My main experience has been with one my colleague Willy [...]