STARS conference 16th November 2011

Stars conference 16-11-11   This conference was organised to give training to the programme reps and give an opportunity for feedback. The day was introduced by Amish Patel student union vice president,  which was followed by a short speech by the VC Professor Paul Curran. He emphasised the importance of the programme rep role in…Continue Reading STARS conference 16th November 2011

Using Adobe Presenter to support CPD

E-learning: An alternative delivery method for clinical  risk training in addictions services.   In 2010 East London NHS Foundation Trust commissionedCityUniversityto deliver a project focussing upon assessing risk assessment within Addiction services.  The addictions directorate  felt there was an identified need within the service to build upon the  already significant  training offered by the Trust…Continue Reading Using Adobe Presenter to support CPD

A fresh take on the classroom clickers (aka ‘PRS’)

Just yesterday I attended and presented at the first European Turning Technologies User Conference at the University of Surrey. Turning Technologies are the US-based manufacturers of the classroom clickers / PRS that we use here at City. The keynote for the day was none other than Harvard Professor Eric Mazur, developer of the ‘Peer Instruction’…Continue Reading A fresh take on the classroom clickers (aka ‘PRS’)

Get Ready to SCOF!

The SCOFS (Standardised, Customisable Online Feedback System) project was a Learning Development Project to develop a tool that would address the needs to give increasing amounts of feedback to students in shorter and shorter timescales. The SCOF tool is based around the creation of feedback schemes (the ‘Standardised’ part of the name) which can later…Continue Reading Get Ready to SCOF!

Digital Literacies JISC Workshop. Bristol 6th October 2011.

JISC Design Studio This was one of a series of JISC workshops rolled out across the UK this year ‘to support the development and implementation of institutional approaches to digital literacies across the entire workforce and including students’. It was expertly facilitated by Helen Beetham, Greg Benfield and Paul Bailey, who introduced us to a…Continue Reading Digital Literacies JISC Workshop. Bristol 6th October 2011.

Do’s and Dont’s on constructing a learning space for our students

I recently attended a SCHOMS run Spaces Design workshop held @ the University of Birmingham. The ‘Active Learning classroom pictures’ are seen below. This was run by Peter Jamieson who’s a celeb in the Spaces world! The end result was to assist in the development of a resource/work tool which will help when considering learning…Continue Reading Do’s and Dont’s on constructing a learning space for our students

Module evaluation discussions

City introduced a policy earlier this year where there will be a more formal mechanism for tying in student module evaluations to staff appraisals.   In some cases, Heads of Department (or their nominees) may wish to discuss the results of student evaluations with staff and so the LDC drafted some guidance to support this and to…Continue Reading Module evaluation discussions

CitySpace Switchoff Party

After 8 years of service to the University, CitySpace has been switched off.  This event was commemorated with the collection of obituary entries on this blog from staff and students and a small party. CitySpace, formerly known as City Online Learning, used the operating system WebCT Vista and was first used on courses at City…Continue Reading CitySpace Switchoff Party

10 Top Tips on using Your Teaching Pod

Based on staff feedback from the Pod Evaluation here are a few ideas on using the Pods in your teaching: Use the pods’ connection to the internet, projected display and audio to bring the outside world into teaching . For example you and your class can view relevant online content such as journal and news…Continue Reading 10 Top Tips on using Your Teaching Pod