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Hi, I'm Jez. Welcome to my blog, where I talk about learning, teaching and educational technology.teaching
Strictly Come Teaching
I should make it clear before getting into this that it’s my fiancee who watches Strictly, not me. My fiancee. I just happened to catch it out of the corner of my eye while I was doing something manly, like DIY. Anyway…
If you live in the UK, you’ll probably not have managed to avoid at [...]
Two techniques to help teachers make the most of technology
Someone recently asked me a very interesting question: what two techniques would you use to enable academic staff to make the most of new technology for teaching?
A number of thoughts ran through my mind at this point:
Ooh, interesting question… Hmm, that depends… That sounds like a blog post in the making… What! Only two?!
But I like the idea [...]
Moving to a more agile VLE
There’s been an interesting debate going on in the blogosphere over the last week about the future of the VLE. It all kicked off with Steve Wheeler’s (intentionally over-polarised) post suggesting we should stick two fingers up at the centralised VLE. Posts from James Clay, Matt Lingard, Lindsay Jordan and many others swiftly followed.
Portfolio assessment in the age of the computer
On the PCHE course, a major component of the assessment is the portfolio. We have to maintain this portfolio throughout the course, and include reflections on our learning and teaching experiences, along with anything else we feel is relevant, such as clippings from articles and planning materials from sessions we’ve taught. At the end of [...]
Ask the readers: Why use technology in teaching?
Today I have a challenge for you, dear reader; but first a little context.
Each year, the PCHE course has a couple of special interest sessions: optional workshops to look at issues related to learning and teaching in HE.
For a number of years this has included a session on blended learning, run by previous PCHE graduate [...]
Equity in education: giving everyone a fair chance
There’s no denying it, it’s a tricky concept. How do we make sure that you offer everyone a fair chance? How do we define fair? Who is ‘everyone’ and what chance are we going to give them? One of the more recent PCHE workshops had us discussing these very questions, so here are my thoughts [...]
Does Wikipedia have a place in education?
Like it or loath it, people use Wikipedia. Some use it as a quick reference for unimportant matters, or as a jumping-off point for more detailed research. Some use it, inappropriately, as a source in its own right: English Heritage was recently criticised by Building Design magazine for citing a Wikipedia article as evidence in a [...]
Teaching with social media: engaging the audience
Do you like having an audience? I know I do: that’s at least part of the reason I’m writing this blog post.
The social web has greatly lowered the barrier to entry for those of us who want an online presence, and given us the greatest possible chance of reaching an appreciative audience through, for example, [...]
Social media resources for learning and teaching
This post is specifically intended to support my seminar given as part of the seminar of the same title, given to my colleagues on the PCHE course as part of the “Expanding your repertoire” special interest session on Wednesday 11th March 2009. I’ll give a brief description of this seminar at the end of this [...]
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