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?
A recent article from software developer Trello, suggests that from learning space to conference hall, the bottom line is that there is a difference between multitasking and “task switching.” The distractible mind…a few thoughts from Clerkenwell Design Week #CDW18. Worth a read for students and us, especially as academics, ‘engagers’ and supporters of learning The creative director of a UK…Continue Reading Is It Time To Ban Laptops In Meeting Rooms? Part of a Bigger Picture
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)
In the Academic Learning Support (ALS) team, we help students to develop their study skills and become effective independent learners. We don’t offer a proofreading service, but students quite often ask us for advice on the use of a commercial proofreader. We consider a commercial proofreader to be a professional text editor who will work in an ethical manner to suggest changes to spelling, punctuation…Continue Reading Guidelines for students on the use of a commercial proofreader
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
(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”?
The Drysdale Ground floor is one of the most heavily utlised spaces on the City, University of London campus. With over 200 open access student PC spaces and five PC teaching labs the floor has been completely remodeled, refreshed and updated to meet the needs of our students, and provide new, flexible learning spaces. …Continue Reading New Flexible Learning and Open Access PC Spaces at City, University of London
Let me first start by introducing myself. I have recently completed my degree in Civil Engineering with Architecture and joined the LEaD team as a winter intern at City, supervised by Julie Voce, Head of Educational Technology and I met Sheila Egan who is the Learning Spaces Lead, part of the Educational Technology Team…Continue Reading A fresh view on Learning Spaces
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?
Throughout 2017, the Educational Technology Team in the School of Arts and Social Sciences collected a number of case studies highlighting the efforts of Lecturers to make their teaching and learning more engaging and pedagogically sound with the use of educational technologies. One of these case studies looked at the work of an International Politics…Continue Reading School of Arts and Social Sciences – Video Case Studies