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 [...]

Today Willy Kitchen feeds back from the Launch (he facilitated in the Interdisciplinary Stream) and focuses on a topic that seemed to come up in many of the Feedback Forms: the problems that modularisation creates both for students and staff.
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Hopefully not entirely a case of too many cooks in the group of four I joined [...]

Willy Kitchen from TILL starts with fieldtrips and ends with a fantastic new initiative to support the use and accessing of study skills resources that he and Tim Herrick are developing here at the University (stayed tuned for more info in the coming months). In between, he mentions that that certain people from certain places [...]

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 [...]