This month’s theme for the LEaD Writing Group was creativity. We started by using an activity suggested by Heather Leach in The Road to Somewhere: A Creative Writing Companion. Stretch the imaginative muscle (Leach, 2014)….
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Walking the City
Now in its third year, the Culture Capital Exchange (TCCE) is hosting a three day Walking the City event. This event brings together a diverse range of creative and innovative walks taking place around the capital. The…
The Walking Reading Group and Beyond
The highly successful Walking Reading Group, facilitated by Lydia Ashman, Ania Bas and Simone Mair, finished it’s current iteration of walks with a flurry of activity this month. Events included a suite of walks in Bilbao,…
Teaching, learning, creativity and passion in higher education: notes from a conference about scholarship of teaching and learning
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference, Quebec, Canada, 22-25 October. In October 2014, I attended the ISSOTL Conference for the first time. The theme of the conference was Nurturing Passion…
Video-making Skills at City
There is a sizable video community at City University (learning technologists, the AV department, the SU and careers to name just a few) and we recently met up in the MILL to find out: How…
Innovation, Creativity and Leadership Day
One of the highlights of the City calendar for me is the Innovation, Creativity and Leadership (ICL) Day run by the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice. As ever, this was an opportunity to be…
Students’ creative ideas for displaying their work in learning spaces
Helping a cohort of 52 business students to design and curate their exhibition of the 11 week Reflective Practitioner module provided an interesting opportunity for students to come up with imaginative ways of displaying their…
Reflective Practitioner Exhibition
It was an honour to be invited to the exhibition showcasing and engaging guests with students’ work on ‘The Reflective Practitioner’ module as part of BSc Management and BSc Business. Angela Dove, the module leader,…
Artist helps students to visualise Learning Space design at City
Dont Walk Away, Have Your Say! was an LDC event at the end of last term on the main walkway, aiming to capture student views and promote three of the ongoing LDC projects. I invited…
Learning Space Design at City, what students really want
In a very recent report from the Students Union to Senate, one of the 5 student community themes put forward concerned Learning and Social spaces that reflect the value City places on quality education, interaction…