One of my favourite days of the year is the TeenTech awards at the Royal Society which were held this year on 25th June. As part of my role as Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group I have attended and judged these awards now for the past four years. TeenTech was co-founded by Maggie…Continue Reading Recognising excellence in research skills and information literacy
Media and Learning Conference 2018 – Leuven, Belgium
As a grateful recipient of a UCISA DEC Bursary I was fortunate enough to travel to Leuven in Belgium for the Media and Learning Conference. This blog post is a reflection on the presentations and discussions. There was a lot of topics, formats, points of view and discussions that it is difficult to provide a…Continue Reading Media and Learning Conference 2018 – Leuven, Belgium
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 and the next train was at 6 am. What would you have done? Has that piqued your interest? Hopefully, yes….Continue Reading How can storytelling help my teaching, presenting, writing… life?
The Design & Management of Learning Environments –The Student Experience
#LearnEnvConf Thursday 17 May 2018 https://workplacetrends.co/learning-environments-2/ Held at Kings College London, this event looked at the key topic of how a modern and diverse learning environment can attract, engage and retain its students and staff. 1.Sue Holmes, Director. of Estates at Oxford Brookes University and AUDE member. Sue was the first speaker. Her talk called “JellyBean…Continue Reading The Design & Management of Learning Environments –The Student Experience
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 get your blog noticed. Use keywords What is your blog post about? What keywords are other people using on this…Continue Reading How to prime your blog posts for SEO (search engine optimization)
Getting Better: Interrogating the Smart Campus (2/2)
(watch the full session above) Over the past couple of years, I’ve been following developments in the area increasingly being defined as the ‘smart campus’ with great interest. It’s a concept that means different things to different people, but to me, it’s largely about the convergence of several trends and emerging technologies across the whole…Continue Reading Getting Better: Interrogating the Smart Campus (2/2)
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 social networks. What images can I use? Photos There are plenty of images online that are free to use. However,…Continue Reading Use images to attract readers like bees
What do we really mean by “partnership work”?
(Illustration: Ada Jusic) At the Change Agents Network (CAN) Conference, “change agents” are any students and staff working in genuine partnerships with the aim of transforming the educational experience. While the 2018 conference encompassed presentations (from students as well as staff) on a range of partnership projects – in areas including curriculum development, learning analytics,…Continue Reading What do we really mean by “partnership work”?
Getting Better: On Tech Bazaars in Aircraft Hangars (1/2)
2018 was my fourth year to attend Bett, one of the world’s largest educational technology trade events, and my third time as a speaker. This is the first of two posts, reflecting on the actual event itself and looking back on the session I convened as part of it. Setting the scene A comment often…Continue Reading Getting Better: On Tech Bazaars in Aircraft Hangars (1/2)
MoodleMoot 2018
This year MoodleMoot took place in Glasgow. MoodleMoot is an annual event that gathers educators, technologists, developers from across Europe showcasing innovation, best practices, new ideas based around teaching with Moodle. In this blog post, I’ll share few trends and things that I learned by attending this event. This year’s conference focused on these…Continue Reading MoodleMoot 2018