Category: Learning & Teaching

Easy to access Study Guides for students

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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. Please have a look, share with your students and if you have any comments or suggestions, email – daniel.sansome@city.ac.uk….Continue Reading Easy to access Study Guides for students

“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 and trying to find your way around Northampton Square you are also introduced to our Online Learning Environment- Moodle. This year to help our…Continue Reading “Learning with Moodle”- A new student induction module

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 in November or write a blog post for us, then contact us. The Slides are below, for more detail, please…Continue Reading How to get more out of Moodle – Bring Your Own Lunch Webinar September 2017

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 large co-horts of students. Flip a lecture or part of a lecture by moving direct instruction of core knowledge away…Continue Reading Blend It, Flip It, OfficeMix It… Voicing PowerPoint Easily for free

Editing – pep up your prose

An eye hidden behind two planks of wood

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 writing can be a reflective form of writing. As a result, we may use ‘I’ a lot. However, this does…Continue Reading Editing – pep up your prose

Stress-Free September? Starting the new academic year

Image shows a wooded clearing with sun filtering down through the trees, in autumn colours.

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 is a new beginning (having been ruled by the academic calendar continuously since I started school 25 years ago). However,…Continue Reading Stress-Free September? Starting the new academic year

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 hashtag #altc or see the ALT-C 2017 Flickr album for photographs. On the third day, I attended in person, to…Continue Reading Planning for Pedagogy Space and Technology Workshop at ALT-C 2017

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 cloud hosted Active Learning Platform and completing the integration between the new Lecture Capture System and Moodle 3.2. A big…Continue Reading The new Lecture Capture system is live at City – see what it can do for your teaching!

The Psychology of Collaboration – Herman Miller Seminar

The Psychology of Collaboration, presented by Bertie van Wyk, based on a paper by Dr. Nigel Oseland. http://bit.ly/2uOrLj8 Bertie van Wyk [BVW] is a workplace specialist, a communicator on human work insights, across Europe and USA. Twitter hashtags – @bertievw  @hminsightgroup If you’re a morning person, by 4pm your brain capacity is the same as if…Continue Reading The Psychology of Collaboration – Herman Miller Seminar