This blog post is personal short reflection of the work in the Learning Spaces theme at City, University of London over the past three years, where I have been an Educational Technologist. I entered the…
Learning & Teaching
Is the future what it used to be?
Looking forward Like most sectors, higher education looks at trends the affect it and tries to imagine potential futures from them. The University of Greenwich’s 2017 Academic Practice and Technology conference took this theme up…
Easy to access Study Guides for students
As part of the revamp of the Academic Learning Support webpages we have added a new Study Guides section.These are short introductory guides on the most frequently accessed topics on the Learning Success Moodle page….
“Learning with Moodle”- A new student induction module
Welcome to a new Academic Year! Starting university it’s always an exciting experience, but can be overwhelming for some. As a student you get introduced to so many new people, places, ideas and systems. Apart from attending lectures, browsing in the library, stopping off at the student canteen…
How to get more out of Moodle – Bring Your Own Lunch Webinar September 2017
A guest post by Snigdha Nag, Senior Lecturer at the City Law School based on the Bring Your Own Lunch (#BYOL) Webinar in September 2017, organised by LEaD. If like to present the next one…
Blend It, Flip It, OfficeMix It… Voicing PowerPoint Easily for free
What is the educational benefit of using OfficeMix? OfficeMix is one of many tools that you can use to create voiced over PowerPoints, to enabled you to try a flipped classroom approach on medium to…
Editing – pep up your prose
This summer the LEaD writing group activities focused on editing. This post outlines the activities so you too can use them to pep up your prose. 1. Hiding the ‘I’ in fiction and non-fiction Blog…
Stress-Free September? Starting the new academic year
A guest post by Dr Emma Kennedy of Queen Mary, University of London as part of the #HEblogswap initiative September has always been a bittersweet time for me. Like many, I always feel that September…
Planning for Pedagogy Space and Technology Workshop at ALT-C 2017
The annual Association for Learning Technology’s conference took place from 5th – 7th September, you can see the daily keynotes which were streamed and recorded via the conference programme.You can also check out the Twitter…
The new Lecture Capture system is live at City – see what it can do for your teaching!
City staff, we’ve been busy…. Since the downtime window started on 31st July. we have been upgrading Echo boxes in Learning Spaces, continuing to migrate content from the old Echo System Server to the new…