I loved the way Lindsay presented this video! Channelling Subterranean Homesick Blues. It is refreshing that she doesn’t rely on generic powerpoint slides. The drawings and using the post it notes to reveal the information makes the video feel interactive and as though she is talking directly to you even though the session is asynchronous.… Continue reading Side note
Category: Teaching & Learning
Some notes on feedback
I’ve been thinking a lot about feedback recently and how this is given on the unit I work on. For several years now I’ve been trying to figure out ways to encourage students to come forward with their work while it is in progress (not the day before submission). In the past I have tried… Continue reading Some notes on feedback
Call and response: Sound of Metal
Over the bank holiday weekend I watched the Sound of Metal, a film about a heavy metal drummer who loses his hearing. There is a scene in a sign language class where Ruben (Riz Ahmed) notices a boy (also hearing impaired) who has trouble sitting still. In the playground, the boy is on the top… Continue reading Call and response: Sound of Metal
Microteach
Initially I found it quite difficult to come up with a topic for my object based learning microteach because I kept approaching the task by trying to think of the object first.After much deliberation, I eventually realised that it was much easier to decide what I was going to teach first and then the rest… Continue reading Microteach
Love and care
After reading Dr Laura D’Olimpio’s article about the Ethics of Care – which is also known as Feminist Ethics, I have been thinking about how the world could really do with more of this!Although I wonder if calling it the feminist ethic immediately creates a barrier, alienates men who are caring/in caring roles and perhaps… Continue reading Love and care
Play, the TEF and marking outcomes
Gadamer’s Ethics of Play: Hermeneutics and the OtherTo be completely honest, I found this to be quite heavy going. I haven’t studied for over 20 years and I found it hard to follow the text and had to look up every other word. I persisted with it, skimmed it over then re-read it a second… Continue reading Play, the TEF and marking outcomes
First tutorial session
Today was our first tutorial session with Rahul. Participants gave a short presentation on their teaching context and shared an article they’d found in the Spark journal. The piece I found was written by Clare Sams How do art and design technicians conceive of their role in higher education? I chose it because I felt… Continue reading First tutorial session
Introduction session
Today we listened to talks from James Wisdom and Victoria Odeniyi. I found both really interesting. James articulated and summarised pretty much what I feel about Higher Education at the moment and it looks pretty depressing. Victoria’s insights on language were very thought provoking. There was a discussion about silence which I found particularly interesting… Continue reading Introduction session