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1. Visible Bodies Links and Guidance for Staff and Students

   Good news - Visible Bodies Anatomy and Physiology is now accessible to staff and students both onsite and off.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. The Healthcare Simulation Dictionary

   Thanks to SSH Society for Simulation in Healthcare for the following post.

6. 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...

7. TOON! Non-technical Skills (NOTECS) Cartoon

   Enjoy our monthly cartoon section, this months ‘toon’ comes from our Team Resource Management series by our resident cartoonist Smurphmuff.

8. Sharing Practice - Faculty Distance Learning Course Examples

   Following the Faculty TEL survey we have collated a handful of good practice examples of courses and approaches designed/redesigned to support distance learning via active blended learning. Read more...

9. 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.

10. 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.