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 [...]

One of the metaphors discussed at the Winter Event on the 23rd February which people returned to several times was that of the student as the seed or the teacher as the gardener.

Katy, a student working with the teachingcommons programme, feeds back from the Teaching 2.0 workshop on Blogging Perfection which was held in the Enterprise Zone yesterday (12th November).
Barely had we set up for the workshop when eager academics began to arrive! Was this early interest purely down to Web 2.0 or had news leaked out [...]

Another Thursday, another post and perspective on excellence. We are collecting quite a series of different views of what excellence is and looks like…just as it should be because excellence is diverse and comes in many forms.
In my short time here I’ve seen that for some people excellence is professional and efficient use of time [...]

Today we have another post coming up shortly that connects Japan and the University of Sheffield. This time we have an Engineer posting. One of the most interesting aspects of my job (looking at good practice across the University) has been discovering the ways engineers think and do things. I was at their ARLT meeting [...]