Make One Change – Using Flubaroo to mark Google Form Quiz

In September 2015, I somewhat nervously attended one of our IT Sessions on using Google as a learning and teaching resource hosted by Chris Jobling, the SALT Lead in the College of Engineering.  As someone on the middle of the technophobe/technophile continuum, I hadn’t really got a handle on the various…

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Making Assessment Clear

Assessment word cloud

  The need to make assessment clear is probably quite obvious, so that students know what is expected of them.  But is isn’t always as simple as that as many of us have found out to our detriment.  So what can we do to make sure that our assessment is…

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Blended Learning

It is great to see that the September technology activities made an impact, at least in one department. Paul Holland and Rhian Kerton have been experimenting with a range of electronic tools including the Blackboard Campus Pack Blog to further develop their e-lectures in the school of engineering. Last week…

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Improving Student’s Confidence

I recently came across a blog post on the HEA website written by Fabio R. Aricò (F.Arico@uea.ac.uk). You can read the full post here: When student confidence clicks academic self-efficacy and learning in higher education. The post refers to a project that was delivered at the HEA Social Sciences annual…

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Modernising Classroom Training with Technology

Those of you who are followers of learning technology will probably have heard of Jane Hart of Top 100 tools fame.  A few of us within the SALT Team follow her blogs and tweets and given that we are looking to improve on our CPD provision, a recent workshop that…

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Swansea University Islamic Awareness Week

Mandy Jack visiting the Islamic Awareness Exhibition at Swansea University

As you may know it’s Islamic awareness week in Swansea Uni and there are some great activities going on around the campus. Outside Fulton House there is an exhibition where everyone is welcomed to peruse posters, pamphlets and books about Islam and to engage in conversation or light refreshments with…

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#LTHECHAT The Rear View Mirror

Last night’s joint #LTHEchat #HEAchat was great fun looking at how to get the most out of attending conferences and putting things into practice when you get back to your desk. There are some helpful tips you might want to take a look at in this Storify captured by Kandy Woodfield…

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#LTHEChat No 44 (27 Jan 2016) Social Media and Conferences

The tweetchat yesterday was really hectic but great fun. It was the first joint tweet chat between the Learning and Teaching in HE Chat  and the HEA Chat  on the subject of the Four Dimensional Conference: Using Social Media facilitated by Professor Simon Lancaster and Sue Beckingham.  I picked up some lovely ideas for…

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