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1. Improve Classroom Participation and More by Using Response Sites and Portable Devices

   This week therefore, I want to highlight how a group of mostly free websites can turn students’ own devices into powerful and versatile audience response systems.

2. 12 Ways to use Mobile Response Sites with Student (and Faculty) Devices in the Classroom

   The approaches below are collated from the literature and also from the views of colleagues within the faculty who have used student devices as audience response systems.

3. Old friends, new beginnings

   Today we find ourselves in uncharted territory; disorientating and unfamiliar waters leaving many of us dealing with a new routine, on the hunt for novel solutions and new ways of working. Read more...

4. Sharing Practice – Supporting Student Collaborative Activities with Shared Documents in Office 365

   Faculty colleague Andrew Kennedy has kindly offered to share his experiences of using shared documents on Office 365 both to support student group assessments and also to facilitate active and engaging shared writing and proof reading activities.

5. Sharing Practice – Sway, Using visualisation tools to enhance student engagement in assessment tasks

   To mark the movement of the School of Education to the Faculty of Arts, Professional & Social Studies (APSS) this blog post highlights the practice of Sarah Tickle from the School of Justice Studies and her use of Microsoft Sway.

6. Sharing practice – Using the video discussion board to create a community and more…

   Dr Colum Cronin has written an article about the ways in which TEL has influenced the delivery of the course.

7. Tools for Peer Review and Peer Evaluation available in Canvas

   A post exploring Buddycheck and Canvas Peer Review and how they can be used for implementing peer feedback on your courses

8. Sharing Practice – An example of what students can produce when given flexible assessments

   This video documentary was created for an assessed task on a distance learning tourism module in EHC.

9. Sharing practice – Using social media to support your research

   This week Pete Atherton from the School of Education has kindly offered to share some of his experience with social media.

10. Create beautiful videos and web pages with Adobe Spark

    This week I want to make you aware of a slick and free to use web resource that you and your students can use to produce eye catching web pages, videos and images quickly and easily.