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 [...]
This Christmas, I had a break from the Sphere of Twitter and visited a long held item on my wish list to watch the Star Wars films, having never seen a frame of them. This short post, takes some of the lessons that Yoda (the green Jedi Master alien) says to others in the films. As Higher [...]
