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Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 6 - the one with the air balloon
Posted on: 12 April 2021 | Category: General
Episode 6 was recorded on 29th March 2021 with Nicola Whitton, Rikke Toft Nørgård, Simon Thomson and William Carey. This is a special edition of Treasure Island Pedagogies with educational developers. In homage to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Desert Island Discs’, our guests identify their students’ lightbulb moment (when their students ‘were getting it’), a teaching prop or pedagogy to take to their Treasure Islands together with a luxury item off duty.
Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 5 - the one with the coconut
Posted on: 22 March 2021 | Category: General
Episode 5 was recorded on 16th March 2021 with four guests, literally from round the globe! This is a special edition of Treasure Island Pedagogies with educational developers. In homage to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Desert Island Discs’, our guests identify their students’ lightbulb moment (when their students ‘were getting it’), a teaching prop or pedagogy to take to their Treasure Islands together with a luxury item off duty. Ashwini Datt, University of Auckland, NZ, Danielle Hinton, University of Birmingham, UK, Jenni Carr, London School of Economics, UK and Natasha Taylor, RMIT, Australia.
Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 4
Posted on: 4 January 2021 | Category: General
Episode 4 was recorded on 3rd Dec 2020 with four guests from the University of Liverpool: Marieke Riethof (Latin American Politics), Chris Barlow (Accounting and Finance), Jennifer Klunder-Rosser (Nursing), and Joel Haddley (Mathematics). They all shared their lightbulb moment (when they felt their students were ‘getting it’), an essential teaching prop or pedagogy and one luxury item to relax off duty.
Liverpool Learning Summit Blog Series - Experiences and Reflections
Posted on: 18 December 2020 | Category: General
When I was asked to contribute to this blog I thought it’d be good to look back on my experience and share it with you. I moved to the UK 11 years ago as an international student. If I remember it correctly, the first thing I noticed was how reluctant home students were to work with international students. And also, how international students consciously or unconsciously created their own networks.
Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 3
Posted on: 15 December 2020 | Category: General
Episode 3 was recorded on 30th Nov 2020 with three guests from the University of Liverpool: Katherine Whitehurst (Comm & Media), Matt Murphy (Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering) and Matthew Flynn (Music). They all shared their lightbulb moment (when they felt their students were ‘getting it’), an essential teaching prop or pedagogy and one luxury item to relax off duty.
My Memories of the Check-in Chat Project
Posted on: 8 December 2020 | Category: General
Everyone in the world is trapped by the Covid-19 pandemic and it seems that we can only wait and hope that it will soon come to an end. The world has pressed the pause button, and we are all restricted in what we do, wherever we are.
Reflections of an Educational Developer on 2020
Posted on: 8 December 2020 | Category: General
I started 2020 as a curriculum developer with curriculum design and assessment as my specialty areas. I am ending it with a whole host of other skills that I never imagined I would develop.
Don’t be Afraid of Creating Video Captions this Halloween
Posted on: 28 October 2020 | Category: General
The deceptively daunting task of captioning and transcribing multimedia content is sending shivers down colleague’s spines this term, but help is at hand.
Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 2
Posted on: 2 October 2020 | Category: General
Come and tune in to our podcast as four guests from the University of Liverpool are discussing their lightbulb moments with students as we are nearing Semester 1.
Trying out Hybrid Teaching on Campus
Posted on: 29 September 2020 | Category: General
Colleagues joined a trial of on-campus teaching to gain first-hand experience of teaching in a socially distanced way, with some participating as remote learners. Please read on to find out our observations with the trial.
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Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 6 - the one with the air balloon
Posted on: 12 April 2021 | Category: General
Episode 6 was recorded on 29th March 2021 with Nicola Whitton, Rikke Toft Nørgård, Simon Thomson and William Carey. This is a special edition of Treasure Island Pedagogies with educational developers. In homage to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Desert Island Discs’, our guests identify their students’ lightbulb moment (when their students ‘were getting it’), a teaching prop or pedagogy to take to their Treasure Islands together with a luxury item off duty.