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Hi, I'm Jez. Welcome to my blog, where I talk about learning, teaching and educational technology.technology
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 [...]
Reader poll: how do you follow blogs?
I have several reasons for writing this post. Chief among them is curiosity: I like pulling the universe to bits and poking it to see what happens, and I’m genuinely interested in finding out how readers of this blog actually keep up to date with the blogosphere. Second, I’ve spent a lot of time in [...]
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 [...]
Project update
It’s been a little while since I posted, so just to keep you interested, here’s a brief summary of what we’ve been up to.
Learning and Teaching Conference 2009
Mark and I, introduced by Patrice, presented a showcase session on the project at the university’s annual Learning and Teaching Conference. Mark gave an overview of the motivation [...]
Introduction to SLC 2.0: Part II
In hindsight, my previous post on the subject of SLC 2.0 seems rather vague. It’s definitely a worthwhile description of the motivation behind the project (or at least my motivation) but it doesn’t really describe what we’re actually doing. I’ll seek to remedy that a little with this, part II of my introduction to SLC [...]
Introduction to SLC 2.0: Part I
I’ve recently become involved in a new project, under the University of Sheffield’s SeeChange initiative, going by the name of “Student Learning Community 2.0”. What’s this all about? Well, it’s to do with using social networking and other Web 2.0 ideas to support student learning at the university, but that sounds more fuzzily defined to me every time I read it. I’ll be using the rest of this post to clarify what the purpose looks like from my perspective at the very outset of the project.
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