Contingency plans for teaching in the midst of UK snow

The University is formally closed again today because of the snow. This is just as well as I’m pretty well snowed in, the only cars getting out of our road are 4x4s.  This is the first time I can remember the University being formally closed.  We do seem to have had large amounts of snow [...]

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Death by PowerPoint – Fact or Fiction?

Image by HikingArtist.com – Flickr I’m working on an assignment at the moment for my PG Cert in Teaching in HE looking at the use of technology in lectures and classroom teaching.  For me e-learning means the use of technology in learning opportunities, but there are still many involved in teaching in HE who are [...]

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Should Powerpoint handouts be uploaded to the VLE before or after lectures?

My PG Cert in Teaching in Higher Education kicked off last week with a workshop and one of the group activities involved us all delivering a short 5 minute micro teaching slot.  We had been forewarned about this so most of us had prepared a few Powerpoint slides to support our slots.  After we’d done [...]

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