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Effective Collaboration with Media Producers: Tips for Stakeholders

28 July 202328 July 2023
Abbie
Creating content

As Media Producers, we know it is important to build trusting and lasting relationships with our project stakeholders. Project stakeholders will have their own expectations and needs for the project that they have requested, and they will have their own

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7 Lessons learned from lockdown home-schooling

A blackboard sign with Welcome please come in, written on it.
20 April 202123 August 2023
Sarah Fielding
News

My children went back to school seven weeks ago. This blog post sat in a corner of my brain, waiting for when I had caught up on workload. That is unlikely to actually happen, and the raw edges of the

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Εngage students and make them speak over Teams and ΒΒ Collaborate

Teenage girl with headphones having an online school class at home.
12 November 202023 August 2023
Dimitra Makrozonari
News

Have you experienced the following scenario? You teach a class online and ask a question at the cohort, a few seconds have passed, and no answer. This awkwardness makes you continue with the answers. So what can you do not

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Why are online forums useful?

Group of young people with smart phones, digital tablets and laptop.
30 September 202023 August 2023
Dimitra Makrozonari
Creating content, News

Forums are more essential than you would think and they can help your students to engage with the courses. Forums are very useful and play a key role in the online classroom, helping the students connect with each other, and

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Padlet for student engagement online

A stylised origami bird and the word Padlet
18 May 202018 August 2023
Sarah Fielding
Creating content, Tech tips

Padlet is a virtual pinboard or online post-it board with a unique URL. The interface is straightforward, with customisable layouts, and backgrounds, plus some nice features to increase student engagement.

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Vevox @ Connect

Vevox graphic showing students participating in lecture on devices
20 February 202018 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events

Amie Fletcher and Isabel Whitley from Vevox joined us for February’s Connect event, to share some updates and suggestions for making the most of Vevox in teaching. The slides from the sesssion can be downloaded below. Vevox also ran a

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ecoffee @ SGH: Learner participation via Vevox and Nearpod

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
27 March 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, News, Tech tips

Clickers have provided a good way of involving learners more actively in lectures, and with mobile devices increasingly ubiquitous, quizzing, polling and feedback are becoming easier to integrate into taught sessions. At this month’s eCoffee session we explored some of

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ecoffee @ SGH: Tools, projects and platforms that can engage students by Callum Taylor

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
22 June 201715 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

Final year medical student Callum Taylor led this month’s e-coffee@SGH session, with an inspiring look at some of the tools, projects and platforms that can help engage students.  It was packed full of useful tips and information and showcased some

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ecoffee @ SGH: Tools for creating quizzes and games

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
2 November 201615 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

e-coffee@SGH builds on the iPAD coffee clubs that previously took place at SGH, exploring the use of mobile devices, but also sharing wider experiences and ideas around the use of technology. This month we looked at tools for creating quizzes and simple

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Peer feedback for group projects

A graphic showing four students, graded with percentages 51% (- 12), 68% (+ 68), 63% (+ 0), 70% (+ 7). Text above reads "Rewarding contributions but the average remains the same".
13 June 201615 August 2023
learnsoton
Case study

An online system enables students to provide each other with formative and summative feedback on their contribution to the group project, helping develop their skills and engagement.

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