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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. 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.

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 – The Faculty of Health Immersive Room

   We would like to highlight the Faculty Immersive Room and share some of the practice happening within it.

5. New Year News

   This week we have a number of institutional TEL updates (some of which are biggies) that we would like to pass on.

6. New Pathology Visible Body Content

   New 3D models and video content

7. 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.

8. Sharing Practice – Scribbles

   Essentially students were encouraged to write reflections about their current thinking within the Blackboard Journal tool.

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. Sharing Practice – Flipped learning

    This week Chris Mackintosh and Milly Blundell have generously agreed to share their experiences of delivering a module using a flipped learning methodology.