Now in it's 10th year and following last year's success, I curated Santa's EdVent 25 with 24 NEW resources for the education community. This blog post gives you the full list. Impact 463 individuals engaged directly with the short bit.ly link from countries. The LinkedIn post got 354 impressions (views), [...]
After being inspired by various 12 Apps of Christmas initiatives and 10 years of running Santa's EdVent (a play on Advent) and previous incarnations on Twitter (now X), this year, I decided to try using MyAdvent.net, a free Advent calendar website online. The process of curating this list acts as a review of the [...]
A guest blog post for #HEBlogswap by Dr Emma Kennedy, Senior Lecturer in HE Learning and Teaching, University of Greenwich The Academic Professional Apprenticeship (APA) is a strange beast. It’s badged as an apprenticeship, which the UK government defines as ‘a paid job where the employee learns and gains valuable experiences’ - note the job [...]
A guest blog post for #HEBlogswap by Dr Emma Kennedy, Senior Lecturer in HE Learning and Teaching, University of Greenwich After a few years of programme leader experience, about 18 months ago I graduated to leading a large programme, and am finally gaining the space to reflect on the experience. Inspired by Aitken and [...]
A guest blog post for #HEBlogswap by Dr Emma Kennedy, Senior Lecturer in HE Learning and Teaching, University of Greenwich I bought Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering because I was attracted by the subtitle: ‘how we meet and why it matters’. As university teaching, as well as other activities, increasingly returns to an in-person [...]
A guest blog post for #HEblogswap by Dr Emma Kennedy, Lecturer in HE Learning & Teaching at University of Greenwich | @EmmaKDev Is it ever okay to compel students to turn on their webcam? It’s a question many have asked, and answered, and many great arguments have already been made (here’s one by Rebecca Barrett-Fox). [...]
This blog post is a reflection of two events I went to at the end of October at Keele University and at the UK Council of Graduate Education, both where I presented and spoke to some brilliant people, but it made me think of the well known English phrase ‘rhetoric and reality’. To put [...]
A guest blog post for #HEblogswap by Dr Emma Kennedy, Lecturer in HE Learning & Teaching at University of Greenwich | @EmmaKDev As some reading this may know, I’m coming to the end of four years working at Queen Mary, University of London (leaving to take up a position at the University of Greenwich). This [...]
"Education is a marathon and not a sprint" This is what an ex-line manager in Secondary School said to me when I was a new teacher. Find out at the end of the post to see what else he said about a career in education. As always, there's such wisdom in an experienced educator and [...]
This brief post on where someone should publish in Technology Enhanced Learning has been prompted by an ex-colleague asking me for some advice. So I thought a public post on this and why you would or would not want to publish in Technology Enhanced Learning, if you are about to undertake a project or have [...]
