It’s hard to believe that five years have passed since one of the most challenging societal and health crises of our time began. Yes, it has been five years since the pandemic started—and five years since we established the Learning and Teaching Community alongside the LEaD Light Lunch, inviting colleagues to come online and share…Continue Reading Sparking creativity and community: Five Years of Sharing
First day of the final working week of the year and I somehow convince myself to go along to what could turn out to be a wild goose chase to nowhere. Truth is, I hadn’t even given it much thought and ended up getting a little swept up in the moment. The meeting on campus…Continue Reading Chairlift Through a Cloudscape
January is the perfect time to refresh your skills and set new goals for inclusivity in your digital content. The 4th of January marks World Braille Day, making it an ideal moment to commit to improving image descriptions in your documents, websites, and presentations. Effective image descriptions, often called “alt text”, are crucial for making…Continue Reading Improve your image descriptions this January
On Monday, 16th December. The Learning Enhancement and Development directorate (LEaD) organised a staff learning and teaching induction event, aimed primarily at new City St. Georges staff involved in learning and teaching but open to anyone who wanted to know about what we do. The event began with a warm welcome and by Professor…Continue Reading NEW: Learning and Teaching induction from LEaD
Adam Lopez is 52 years old and lives in Toronto Canada with his wife, daughter and pet dog Ringo. Adam has been my best friend for 35 years. In October 2021, he developed a sore throat. It persisted for a few weeks and so he decided to go to the doctors. What he thought was…Continue Reading AI voice-cloning to help my sick friend speak again
3 December marks the United Nations’ International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), an annual opportunity to reflect on and promote the rights, well-being, and inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of life. Established in 1992, the IDPD seeks to raise awareness of disability issues and mobilise support for creating a more inclusive…Continue Reading Taking Action for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities
We’ve got a series of posts to help you prepare for the new academic year on Moodle. This is our last post and will cover the support available to your students to use digital technologies and academic skills at City St George’s. In an earlier post, we looked at Learning With Moodle, which introduces students…Continue Reading Prepare for the new academic year – Support your students’ academic and technical skills
By now you would have heard about Microsoft Teams at least once, whether it’s for a module’s collaboration, an online lecture or presenting your work in a 1:1 meeting. Teams is a tool that rarely goes unused when in university and especially, when in the workplace. The tool makes working and studying a collaborative, engaging…Continue Reading Being a Teams-player will boost your employability!
We’ve got a series of posts to help you prepare for the new academic year on Moodle. This is our (lucky) thirteenth post and looks at how you can filter the Participants list on Moodle to view a list of students on your module and how to view them on the photo grid. Filter the…Continue Reading Prepare for the new academic year – view student lists on your module
How to deal with subjective assessment criteria The problem: This is a challenge many of us face when marking assessments where we are required to determine if a student’s work is “effective” or their delivery demonstrates the skills of a “good advocate” and ultimately: competent. On the professional programmes in The City Law School, students…Continue Reading Skills-based assessments with subjective marking criteria – A case study from City Law School