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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. Sharing Practice – PowerPoint narration for reflection, content creation and assessment

   This academic year the audio narration feature in PowerPoint has been used by a number of staff and programme teams for a variety of tasks.

4. Book in review: Using Simulations for Education, Training and Research (Dieckmann (ed))

   Simulation-based educators should read this book, particularly those who are involved in designing programmes of training or who are responsible for designing the simulator environment and purchasing equipment.

5. 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.

6. 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

7. NAH Mandatory Recording Guidance

   Additional recording guidance for NAH colleagues

8. Sharing Practice – Screencasts and role-play to support distance taught students

   For six years this faculty has been running a distance taught programme in Athens which straddles the two notions of distance and face to face teaching.

9. Sharing Practice – Engaging role-play activities delivered and supported at a distance

   This week Louise Williams has generously agreed to share her experience of running engaging virtual role-play activities at a distance.

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.