Tag: Teaching & Learning
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Beyond the Blog
The Irish Food Bloggers came to the Milk Market Saturday, and as part of the day, I led a short discussion about building communities online. There is at least one thing in common between lecturing and blogging In both forms, someone at the physical or virtual front of the room does most of the ‘talking’,…
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Back on Bitnet..
I found a really old post on bit.listerv.history from 1992 which shows I’ve been saying the same stuff for almost 20 years (and still can’t type properly) “I agree that many people end up in humanities undergrad courses due to a lack of direction, or failure to get into other faculties; and I accept there…
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iBut
Yes, the iPad is here and it is pretty and it is a game changing device but only in some ways. I was impressed with the Course Notes app which goes a long way to fixing some of the common problems of disorganisation that bedevil students, but not all – apps like that on the…
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Digital History Class
As this term moves on, my Digital History students are (mostly) making progress on their blogs. For the course, an MA option, I decided that the assessment would be based on 10-12 blog postings showing the use of digital tools for history, and discussing readings in the area. We did all of the practical sessions…
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Can I make Twitter a requirement for my students?
Harold Jarche is one of the most popular bloggers dealing with social networking, and for good reason – he is insightful. His blog post from yesterday gathers ideas which prompt me to wonder why I haven’t already made twitter a requirement in my courses, and how I can overcome the obstacles to using it in…
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Collateral learning
An interesting question is posed over at Do You SoTL – how do you structure courses to encourage atudents to take responsibilty for their own learning? I think there is no quick fix, and given the pavlovian response of many students to grades, I think one of our tutorial programmes this term (in HI2001) goes…
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Expanding SOTL problem
Action research in any form has a funny – or not funny – way of running away on you. I’ve been doing a bit of SOTL work on the wargame design task in my Hi2007 class, and next term I thought I would have a research plan to finish of my Masters in Teaching &…
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Subversion
I’m looking for some (moderately) radical students to help subvert the top-down model that dominates the Irish university sector. I do a quite a bit of research in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and I have a couple of things going on which I am keen to open up a bit and get some…
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Blogging as a Personal Learning Environment
I’m making my Digital History students (Hi6018) create and use a blog as the anchor for their assessment portfolio in the the course, and I was hunting around for other courses using blogs, but cannot find as many as I used to be able to see. Bill Turkel’s class at UWO are doing it, and…
