Feel the fear and do it anyway!
2 MDBS staff speak to their experience of using Canvas Quizzes (Submitted by Sean Roe and Samantha J Taylor, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences) Uses of Canvas Quizzes for Summative Assessment of Second Year Medical students Sean says:…
The Jelly Baby Tree
Promoting a connected learning through developing an online community: The Jelly Baby Tree In this blog post Alison Smart shares her experiences of adopting the Jelly Baby Tree for online work. As we have all started to adapt to the (dare I say it) “New…
Show & Tell – Panel Discussion (Jan. 2021)
Theme: Managing Breakout Rooms Online The AHSS Digital Learning Team hosted a panel discussion on the theme of ‘Managing Breakout Rooms Online’. Colleagues from Queen’s Management School (QMS), who had used Breakout Rooms and online small-group discussions throughout previous terms, shared their experiences, advice, and…
Show & Tell Session (Jan 2021)
Theme: Simplifying Online Teaching The Digital Learning Teams from across the institution facilitate monthly Show & Tell webinars, where staff are invited to share their own experiences of online and blended teaching. The Online Teaching Show & Tell series kicked off in 2021 with the theme of ‘Simplifying Online Teaching’. On…
Video Feedback on Canvas
What is it? Providing timely and useful feedback to students on their work is important for so many reasons. We know that constructive feedback can help students improve their work and allows them to think critically about their progress as they move through a course…
The case for disconnectedness
In this post I argue that, in a connected learning environment, being disconnected is essential to being productive as well as caring for yourself. Enquiring about the well-being of one of the School of Nursing and Midwifery CPAD students recently she told me the following,…
Building Postgraduate Communities
The Graduate School delivers a varied community and wellbeing programme to its postgraduates throughout the year. From the initial COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020 we ensured translating these events online was at the forefront of our programme planning and promotion. Lifting our face-to-face delivery format…
Show & Tell Session (Dec 2020)
Theme: Building Online Community The Digital Learning Teams from across the institution facilitate monthly Show & Tell webinars, where staff are invited to share their own experiences of online and blended teaching. On Thursday 3rd December the theme of ‘Building Online Community’ was the focus at the Online Teaching Show &…
One New Thing: Interactive Hotspot Questions
Many of us have used Turningpoint (“PRS”) and may associate it with the infuriating error “TurningPoint Desktop has detected an open version of PowerPoint” or dragging around boxes of clickers, but some updates have come along to make our lives easier: A new release, “Turningpoint Web”…
Show & Tell Session (Nov 2020)
Theme: Assessment and Feedback Digital Learning Teams from across the institution coordinate the monthly ‘Online Teaching Show & Tell’ sessions, where staff are invited to share their own experiences of online and blended teaching. The first session of the series kicked off at lunchtime on Thursday…