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 department which was bigger on the inside than the outside. Many adventures were had. The Collaborative Working Dimension: Workshops, a…Continue Reading Reflections of Time And Relative Dimensions in Learning Space
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
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
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
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
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!
It has been a year since the City Wide Simulated Practice showcase started, by Neal Sumner (LEaD) and Janet Hunter (School of Health Sciences). Since then, we have had termly meetings and an ever expanding selection of examples of simulation. This month, saw the summer 2017 gathering of the group on 11th July, where we…Continue Reading Simulated Practice Showcase – July 2017 Report
How many students do you know who say something like this after submitting an assignment? How many say the same- but present tense, before submitting? The work we do in Student Counselling and Mental Health Service (SCMHS) and Neurodiversity often has to deal with statements like Mr Bowie’s as our starting point. I have been…Continue Reading Still don’t know what I was waiting for and my time was running wild… (Bowie, 1971)
The School of Health Sciences Teaching and Learning Innovators Event this term returned to the three presentation format on the 14th June, following a single workshop format for the past few innovators events, with Alison Coutts, Maggie Tarling and Ellie Taylor (from the Nursing Division in the School) on the topics of team-based learning, certainty…Continue Reading School of Health Sciences – Teaching and Learning Innovators Event – June 2017
On the 6th June, Echo hosted an Active Learning Conference at Kings College London which members of LEaD and Educational Research and Enterprise Systems (ERES, part of IT) attended. The aim of the event was to showcase and share good practice and to update the UK community of Echo institutions (which include UCL, QMUL, LSE…Continue Reading Echo Active Learning Conference 2017