December 10, 2023
CPD / PhD

I’ve been GASTA’d (Again) #ALTCSummit

After a full day of working behind the scences at the #ALTCSummit activities on Wednesday last week I also survived my second GASTA … and am now looking forward to my badge ! Honoured to be in the esteemed company of my fellow GO_GN Gastateers , Ada, Aras, Michael, Jo and Taskeen who all did an absolutely awesome job .. and of course we were all kept under control by the lovely Tom Farrelly and herded into position by my lovely ALT boss Maren Deepwell. My ‘warm up’ act was strangely right at the end instead of first so by the time it got to me I was completely hyperactive but hey ho in for a penny in for a pound .. Everyone else did their’s to time .. I just about got my last slide in before Tom kicked me out … It was such a giggle as expected. …

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CPD Webinar : Aligning Microsoft Teams to group work and problem-based learning

I attended a webinar last week run by the lovely Dr Linda Kaye as part of the #digilearn series. Linda gave us a scenario to consider where by students have complained that in their group work, some students are not pulling their weight and asked if we came across this in our own work to which the majority responded with a resounding ‘YES’ Practical Example Linda explained how her students were given this topic to undertake as individual and group work culminating in a joint presentation at the end . Process She assigns students to groups and sets these up on teams where they have specific team based tutorial discussions to enable them to work together. Students capture details using the ‘Conversations’ Tab. Meeting Notes from Face 2 Face meetings can be stored and shared Files made available in preparation for the presentation. Students manage the file storage themselves etc …

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Podcast for Teaching in Higher Ed #248

Apparently, the podcast that I did for Teaching in Higher Education with the wonderful Bonni Stachowiak has now aired… @bonni208 I haven’t listened to it all back yet as I find the sound of my own voice quite horrifying …  god, I can talk such a lot of drivel especially when I’m nervous … I feel should apologise right now for going on about nothing in particular and just ‘get my coat’ … Bonni, however, was as professional and brilliant as ever and it was an absolute privilege and honour to be invited to be a guest on her show … Excited to interview @debbaff in a few minutes for @tihighered pic.twitter.com/D2oQ8YYSXv — Bonni Stachowiak (@bonni208) February 8, 2019 I did manage to get in a few extra plugs and recommendations towards the end for some absolutely amazingly brilliant people who Bonni may like to have as a guest on her …

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How can I make my online delivery more engaging?

via How can I make my online delivery more engaging? I just took part in this fab webinar today by the folks at Teaching and Learning Conversation #TLCwebinars – Matthew Thorpe @mattthorpey86 and Steve Williams @ste_3po – really, really enjoyed it…  there is always something new to learn isn’t there! Really happy to see some familiar names on the participant list and its always good to make some new friends .. Matthew and Steve did such a good job of facilitating the session with about 60 participants … it used Adobe Connect which is something I have used before but not used the breakout group function so it was  really helpful.  I loved the slides that they used – sort of reminded me of comic book super hero type stuff …. Use of External Tools within the Webinar Matt and Steve used Mentimeter to get us to contribute to producing a word …

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#BYOD4L Day 5 Creativity and Celebrating Reflections

Well, this is the second time I have written this blog post as for some reason WordPress decided it didn’t want to save my ramblings as ususal … anyhow.. I’ve managed to rescue some of it and have added some more rambles … I just wanted to say (again ) that although  #BYOD4L is over for another year, the community itself however is still very much alive and kicking ! Friday proved to be yet another fab exchange of ideas in our tweetchat. Welcome to the last #BYOD4Lchat of the week. Your guides today are @alexgspiers & @debbaff — BYOD4L (@BYOD4L) January 19, 2018 I must admit though that I found it quite challenging at times trying to facilitate between posting the Questions and juggling the Tasks. I had to resort quite a few times to asking Alex and the rest of the lovely #BYOD4L team which one we were supposed to …

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#BYOD4l 2018 Day 4 Collaborating and Community

In celebration of the fact that we have the collaborating and community theme going on today, I did a periscope this morning …. aided by my lovely roomie Rhian…we just did a very quick hello but I thought I would share some thoughts … so a couple of quick reflections from me … Save to Camera Roll Settings I forgot to change my settings to autosave the video to my camera roll ( it will disappear from Persicope after 24hrs) I’ve now done this for the next one … As a workaround though, I used this helpful link that I found online http://www.downloadperiscopevideos.com/ which allowed me to copy and paste my periscope URL link ( which I found by searching for my name on  Persiscope TV on my PC ) into a box and then click a button to magically download the file. I then uploaded that resulting file to my You Tube account ..  ( …

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#BYOD4L Jan 2017 – My Reflections

Ok,  reflecting on my experiences with #BYOD4L ( which by my calculation was only last week and yet it feels like a month has gone by already …)  I am a bit torn between missing all the buzz and communciation and feeling thankful for the return to normality ( in a good way of course ..) so that I can try and reflect on it ! So, my experience of facilitating #BYOD4L this time around was on the whole great. I got the opportunity to work with some awesome people again and make some new contacts in the process.  My padlet that I made for the week is here … My only regret is that I don’t feel I did as much as wanted to so I hope that the stuff that I did do was also helpful to other people ( it was certainly helpful to me) TEAMWORK AND ACTIVITIES …

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#BYOD4L curating .. or not

Well today was Day three and the curating theme but I’m afraid stuff has got in the way for me today and I have been juggling lots of plates so I haven’t been able to do much of #byod4l today but I shall definitely be having a good look at the storify and catching up with all the goings on asap…. Tomorrow we have the collaborating theme. I’m facilitating the tweet chat tomorrow along with my new found friend Rebecca 🙂 I’m looking forward to some great collaborations tomorrow including some zooming with Rebecca and some periscoping with Chris Jobling so watch this space 🙂

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