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 [...]
Last year, Dr Emma Kennedy from QMUL (an Educational Developer) and I swapped a blog post on City, University of London's Learning at City and the QMUL ADEPT blogs . We are planning to do the same this year on 13th September. #HEblogswap - 13th September. Use this image to tweet the message below. [...]
A few weeks ago via a mailing list I came across PowerPoint Karaoke. A website that explains the rule of this new phenomenon called 'PowerPoint Karaoke'. The rules are as follows (taken from the website): The presenter cannot see the slides before presenting. The presenter delivers each slide in succession without skipping slides or going [...]
This third and final blog post in my trilogy of posts, the first being Institutional Signature Pedagogy — Like Avocado on Toast? and the second, Things to consider before you go on the distance learning road. The title is inspired from the Doctor Who Episodes of the same title, Heaven Sent and Hell Bent, from [...]
In the second of my third post trilogy on higher education strategy, I explore distance learning. I have heard this past term many colleagues and ex-colleagues mention distance learning. Questions arise such as ‘are you doing distance learning at your institution?’. I believe institutions need to look at their core values, mission statement etc before [...]
Originally posted on jobs.ac.uk and medium.com This post is inspired by the work of the University of York, in particular, the idea of a ‘York Pedagogy’ and a comment from Chef Jamie Oliver I read in a paper a while back saying you don’t need a complicated recipe for Avocado on Toast. So I wondered [...]
This last task, we have been asked to reflect on the course as a whiole. As I come to the end of this 23Things course, which I have done mainly on Saturdays and Sundays when I've been at home, I've really enjoyed thinking about and exploring various new tools and things I wanted to try for [...]
So it's the last week of 23Things and this week we are asked to try out fun and playful apps. So I decided to signup for Snap chat, I hear it's what all the young people are into nowadays. I have to say, maybe because I'm not quite the demographic of this app, but I [...]
Games in education is nothing new, teachers have been using paper, card, glue etc and creating many games, but what I liked about both Kahoot and National Museum of Scotland Games (Wind Farm) I played today was how many quick and easy platforms are half-ready for teachers to pick, adapt and use in the classroom with [...]
Thing 20 is asking me to look at LinkedIn, Academia.edu and ResearchGate. As an active user of LinkedIn and with accounts of the other two, I've already explored this area in great depth. I included these three sites in a Social Media at Work e-Learning package I produced when I worked at Imperial College London. [...]
