On 8 February I attended the inaugural Poll Everywhere User Group meeting at Regent’s University. The group was set up by Matt.Lingard@uwl.ac.uk and Anna.Armstrong@uwl.ac.uk of the University of West London, “for educational users of Poll…
Monthly Archives For February 2016
#appventcityunilead – an experiment before Christmas
Inspired by the various 12 Apps for Christmas twitter initatives from other universities, where an app is posted on a blog post every day, I decided to try and engage with our twitter followers and…
Health Has Got Talent 2015 – Evidence-informed Teaching Strategies in Speech and Language Therapy
This is a summary of the work that we presented at Health Has Got Talent 2015. One of the challenges of teaching therapy skills to speech and language therapy students is considering how to incorporate…
Blended and Flipped Learning – BETT 2016
The annual British Educational Training and Technology Show (BETT) show took place from 25th – 28th January 2016. This post covers the blended and flipped learning panel discussion, of which I was one of the…
The UK Higher Education Learning Space Toolkit 2016
The UK Higher Education Learning Space Toolkit a joint collaboration between Standing Conference for Heads of Media Services (SCHOMS) ,the Association of University Directors of Estates (AUDE) and UCISA, the Universities and Colleges Information Systems…
Using walking to set the community in a social, political and historical context: The Public Health History Walk
I have been using walking as part of my teaching for a while now, and there are a number of ways this can be incorporated into your educational activities, some of which I will describe…
Team-based Learning at BETT 2016
The annual British Educational Training and Technology Show (BETT) show took place from 25th – 28th January 2016. This post covers team-based learning, one of the many topics discussed at the Technology in Higher Education…
Sharing Turnitin QuickMark Feedback
You may be familiar with using Turnitin QuickMark comments when providing feedback on students’ work in Turnitin assignments but did you know that you can share QuickMarks with your colleagues to create a library of…
Educational Technology at scale: Bett 2016 review
Now over 30 years old, The Bett Show is a huge London-based event for showcasing the uses of information technologies in education, spanning primary to tertiary and skills. A couple of LEaD staff were invited…