I’ve done some exciting things during my thirteen (and a third) years at City, but I think this just about caps the lot. It was just before my last appraisal meeting that the idea of jumping off a tall building first came to mind. I was a little bit early for the meeting (I just…Continue Reading Sky-diving from College Building clock tower
INTRODUCING SEGMENTED QUIZZING Keen to try and add some team-based gaming elements to your teaching, but not sure where to start? Feel like you’ve taken Poll Everywhere about as far as you can in your classes, but would still like to take it to a next level? I might have just this thing for you….Continue Reading Team-based Quizzing with Poll Everywhere
Opening Conference Welcome and Key Notes The welcome was provided by Antonio Garcia Ricos from the organising committee. He focused on the 10 Trends transforming Education as we know it report published by the EU in 2017. The 10 trends include: • The earlier the better • Graduation is not the end of learning •…Continue Reading INTED 12th International Technology, Education and Development Conference 2018 5th – 6th March 2018 in Valencia Spain
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 recommends having a specific person in mind to write to. This could be: Your past self Your present self Your…Continue Reading Who’s your audience? I am!
The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) is the leading membership organisation in the field of educational technology with the objective to “advance education through increasing, exploring and disseminating knowledge in the field of Learning Technology for the benefit of the general public”. This year sees the 25th Annual conference, taking place in Manchester from 11-13…Continue Reading Call for proposals – Association for Learning Technology Annual Conference
Do you use tools like Skype or Adobe Connect in your teaching or collaborative research? Have you ever tried to bring a remote speaker into a seminar, or attempted a live collaboration between people at different sites? How well do your webinars run, when all participants are dispersed across different sites? On Wednesday Feb 21st…Continue Reading ‘I’ll Skype You In’ – LEaD event for International City Week
Following the success of our workshop on The Pedagogy of Space, Dom Pates and I were invited to present at Anglia Ruskin’s Active Learning Conference It was very successful with an encouraging level of engagement from delegates, shown below engaged with our two activities. The first activity was to evaluate two learning spaces whist adopting…Continue Reading Active Learning & Teaching Conference, Anglia Ruskin University 12.9.17 #altalc
How many of us at City feel that we have too much time on our hands? I guess most of us consider time our rarest commodity, and yet hundreds of staff and students are making time in their day to slow down and focus on themselves using the Ten Minute Mind. So what? Thursday 1st…Continue Reading How many of us at City feel that we have too much time on our hands?
A good practice guide – How to be excellent at Assessment and Feedback This year is the 10th year of the Learning at City Conference and to celebrate this and all the good practice that takes place across the institution we are launching an annual Good Practice Guide that will be published as a booklet and…Continue Reading Call for case studies on assessment and/or feedback
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 through. Henneke Duistermaat suggests some helpful tips to make your writing sound more conversational: Don’t write for everybody – think about…Continue Reading Want to make your posts more conversational? Read this…