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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Now Available: Elsevier Clinical Skills

   A summary of Elsevier Clinical Skills and information for Faculty of Health colleagues regarding accessing the platform

6. Interactive 360 Learning Objects

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

7. 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.

8. Anatomy of a tweet – Introduction to twitter part 2

   This post continues from the “Anatomy of a tweet part 1” posted on 6th May 2016 in which the component parts of a tweet were identified and explained.

9. Anatomy of a tweet – Introduction to twitter part 1

   This week’s post is about twitter, not about how to use it, when to use it, or even whether to use it. Instead this post hopes to demystify the anatomy of a tweet.

10. 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.