Recently, Dom Pates, Jane Secker and I were discussing the future of the blogging group once I leave City (more about that later). We ended up talking about why we started blogging. Here’s my answer….
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Innovation to mainstream: a 21st Century campus designed for Active Blended Learning
This is my second post about the SOAS Learning and Teaching Development conference. Prof. Alejandro Armenilli from The University of Northampton started by presenting a video – A vision of students today, which, whilst made in…
Decolonising Multilingualism: Learning to decreate
This is the first of a series of short posts on the lectures and presentations I saw at SOAS’s 5th Learning and Teaching Development Conference. Prof. Alison Phipps – Decolonising Multilingualism: Learning to decreate Phipps’…
#HEblogswap 2018 – Find a blog partner, write for each other’s blog and post
Our former LEaD colleague, Santanu Vasant, has been in touch to spread the word… It’s back – #HEblogswap, now in its third year, is on Wednesday 12th September. Who’d like to join in this year?…
How can storytelling help my teaching, presenting, writing… life?
Have you ever missed your last train home? I have. I’d just been stood up and, to top it all, I was left stranded in the small German town of Offenburg. It was 11 pm…
How to prime your blog posts for SEO (search engine optimization)
You’ve taken time to write your blog post. Now, how can you make sure it gets read by the maximum number of readers? Make it search engine friendly. Here are a few SEO tips to…
Use images to attract readers like bees
I like to think of images in blog posts like flowers. They can attract your reader like bees. Once enticed the images can be used by readers to ‘dance’ about your wise words on visually oriented…
Who’s your audience? I am!
In our blog writing guidance, we suggest you write with an audience in mind. We discussed this topic in February’s Blog Writing Group. It can be a challenge to think who your audience is. Joseph Lalonde…
Want to make your posts more conversational? Read this…
A frequent question in the blog writing sessions is – how can I make my writing more conversational? Relax is my first piece of advice. Don’t worry too much about the grammar and let your personality shine…
Picturing how to write essays
Do your students find it difficult to develop their essays? If so, Alke Groppel-Wegener’s ‘Writing Essays by Pictures’ may provide a helpful guide. She approaches what can appear to be a dry process in a creative…
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