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1. Turnitin Support

   Hopefully the collated links below will bring help (and thus good cheer) to a few of you over the winter break…

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. 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.

4. 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.

5. LJMU Sport and Physical Activity Department

   Find out more about the LJMU Sport Building. Find out how to join the gym, see the fitness classes available, how you can hire our facilities and more about the sport participation programme.

6. About the project – Faces of Merseyside

   The Faces of Merseyside was created and presented by Face Lab. The project shows the average facial images of people in Merseyside based on their occupations and interests.

7. Postgraduate fees, funding and money advice

   Find out what you need to know about your postgraduate fees, funding and helpful advice for managing your finances.

8. BBC presenter Jane Garvey 'tells it like it is' to students

   Students studying English at LJMU were treated to a special Q&A with the presenter of BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour.

9. Feedback

   This guide aims to help enhance the power of feedback through more evenly distributing feedback across the learning experience.

10. Sport coaching expertise goes international in Malta

    International specialists in the field of sport coaching at LJMU visited Malta earlier this month as they delivered face-to-face teaching components of the inaugural postgraduate programme.