Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 4 - the one with the real Treasure Island
In Episode 4, we discussed the challenges and opportunities of doing role-play, group discussions in an online Covid setting and bartered teaching ideas and also had a special mention of the original Treasure Island.
Posted on: 4 January 2021
Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 3 - the one with all the Ms
In Episode 3, an episode of Ms, Mathew, Matt and Katherine share various student-centred and collaborative learning inspired lightbulb moments and teaching props.
Posted on: 15 December 2020
My Memories of the Check-in Chat Project
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.
Posted on: 8 December 2020
Reflections of an Educational Developer on 2020
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.
Posted on: 8 December 2020
Don’t be Afraid of Creating Video Captions this Halloween
The deceptively daunting task of captioning and transcribing multimedia content is sending shivers down colleague’s spines this term, but help is at hand.
Posted on: 28 October 2020
Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 2 - the one with Lego
In Episode 2, our guests share their lightbulb moments, including getting students to 'take' feedback, the importance of reflection, using play for conceptual understanding with Lego and ways of engaging environmental science students with hydrology. We also hear how the coronavirus pandemic has encouraged creativity when preparing for Hybrid Active Learning and socially distanced teaching.
Posted on: 2 October 2020
Trying out Hybrid Teaching on Campus
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.
Posted on: 29 September 2020
Hybrid Active Learning – Support Site is Live on Canvas
The HAL support Canvas site is a 'one-stop shop' for supporting staff for the hybrid delivery from September 2020 onwards.
Posted on: 6 August 2020
Transition from New Box View to Bb Annotate for marking of assignments using Bb Assignments in VITAL
Earlier this year Blackboard Inc (the developers of VITAL) announced the move away from New Box View and the change to Bb Annotate for assignment viewing, marking and grading when using the Blackboard Assignment tool. Testing has now been completed to our satisfaction on this tool on our test server, and the change is due to be implemented, by our suppliers, on VITAL in the week commencing August 10th.
Posted on: 6 August 2020
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Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 4 - the one with the real Treasure Island
In Episode 4, we discussed the challenges and opportunities of doing role-play, group discussions in an online Covid setting and bartered teaching ideas and also had a special mention of the original Treasure Island.
Posted on: 4 January 2021