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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Welcome to 2020 – Panopto quizzes

   There is a recent flipped learning case study on the University of Sussex TEL blog. Sussex have recently introduced Panopto and also use Canvas so you may find this interesting and useful.

5. Sharing practice – green screen module evaluations

   This blog post highlights how working closely with the TEL team, creativity and new technology can be combined.

6. Sharing Practice – eBooks

   This blog post highlights the use of eBooks.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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

10. Interactive 360 Learning Objects

    An example of how 360 images can be used to create interactive Learning Objects.