Blog Archive

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The actual University of Sheffield Case Studies Good Practice blog URL is http://www.good.group.shef.ac.uk/blog. All blog postings are logged here so that they can be archived and searched for in the database. The blog launched on January 14, 2008 at the Learning and Teaching Conference and will run for 6 months (initially) with different people from the University of Sheffield blogging each day to try to get a virtual snapshot of what is happening in our Learning and Teaching community.

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Blog posts

The Case Studies Good Practice blog is posted to daily. The posts are archived here (since the posts themselves function as mini Case Studies) once every couple of weeks so that they can be searched for database purposes.

• Metaphors: Intimate Images (February 25th, 2009)
• Engineering Winter Metaphors: A Chinese perspective? (February 24th, 2009)
• Is your language ability as embarrassing as Barack Obama’s? (February 18th, 2009 )
• Ethics and manners in teaching (February 10th, 2009 )
• Making connections (February 10th, 2009 )
• Personal Tutors - The Student Perspective (February 6th, 2009 )
• Inclusive Learning and Teaching: A Postgraduate Perspective (February 3rd, 2009 )
• Students feedback on feedback (and memories Christmas antlers past)…. January 30th, 2009
• Social Bookmarking Workshop (January 30th, 2009 )
• The Launch: Virtual spaces (January 28th, 2009 )
• The Launch: Creating your desired working environment (January 27th, 2009 )
• More from the Learning and Teaching conference: Outreach activities and doctoral training programmes (January 26th, 2009 )
• Learning and Teaching triads (January 26th, 2009)
• The Launch: Using visual tools for learning (January 22nd, 2009 )
• Study Abroad Students and Personal Tutors (January 21st, 2009)
• Learning and Teaching Conference: After thoughts on discussion triads (Jan 20.09 )
• Calling spatial control… (Jan 19.09 )
• Learning and Teaching Conference: A Postgrad’s Perspective (Jan 15.09 )
• Valuable spaces: offices, libraries, cafes and the internet (Jan 06.09 )
• It was the best of times…I hope it will be thus for you over the holidays. (Dec 19.08 )
• Maximising connections through teachingcommons: An insider’s view (Dec 18.08 )
• teachingcommons Christmas on the concourse: Targeting students (Dec 17.08 )
• Bloggity blog blog blogs (Dec 16.08 )
• Feedback on reindeer antlers…. (Dec 16.08 )
• The Launch: Student connections and bubbles (Dec 10.08 )
• Personal tutor tutorial:specifics (Dec 09.08 )
• Pure poetry: Berkeley lectures and teaching online (Dec 04.08 )
• Real steel: designing learning (Dec 03.08 )
• The Launch: 30 minutes in the life of a conversational group (Dec 02.08 )
• The Launch: Noisy spaces (Dec 01.08)
• The Launch: Videos from the discussions (Nov 25.08)
• The Launch: Flexispaces (Nov 24.08)
• The Launch: Videos a-go-go (Nov 19.08)
• Personal Tutors (Nov 18.08 )
• The Launch: The high theory “crap-detector” approach (Nov 17.08 )
• teachingcommons Workshop: An insider’s guide to the NSS and other surveys (Nov 14.08 )
• The Launch: My whiteboard (Nov 13.08 )
• Teaching 2.0 Report: Blogging on Blogging (Nov 12.08 )
• The Launch: Finally! connections (it’s who you know) (Nov 11.08)
• The Launch: Cultivating ideas in the cracks in the pavement (Nov 10.08)
• The Launch: Flexibility and variety from the Conversations Stream Nov 07.08)
• Teaching Stats Circle Report (Nov. 5) (Nov 07.08)
• The Launch: A report from the Conversations Stream (where’s the money?) (Nov 06.08)
• The Launch: The benefits of muddy spaces (Nov 05.08)
• The Launch: A confession of a reluctant IT user (Nov 04.08)
• Fresher’s Week and shared learning experiences (Nov 03.08)
• Information Literacy and employability discussed in Second Life (Nov 02.08)
• Information Literacy week: the role of the librarian in information literacy for employment (Oct 31.08)
• Information Literacy week: is information literacy essential for graduates in employment? Oct 31.08)
• Information Literacy week: Web 2.0 and information literacy (Oct 31.08)
• Information Literacy week: Getting engaged – making large group IL more interactive (Oct 30.08)
• Information Literacy Week: My information literacy journey (Oct 30.08)
• Information Literacy Week: Information Literacy and graduate employability (Oct 30.08)
• Information Literacy: it deserves a more than a week (Oct 28.08)
• Information Literacy Network Week (Oct 27.08)
• The Launch: Claire Allam feeds back on Ketso and the Creative Stream (Oct 24.08)
• The Launch: Photos on Flickr and Paul White speaking (Oct 24.08)
• The Launch: Students summarise some of their discussions (Oct 23.08)
• Teaching-led Research Circle (Oct 23.08)
• The Launch: Accents and Assessment (Oct 22.08)
• The Launch: After the party, reporting back on the Launch (Oct 21.08)
• See you soon! (Oct 20.08 )
• Spaces and Connections: Even more! (Oct 17.08 )
• International spaces and connections, Part 2 (Oct 16.08 )
• International Spaces and Connections: students speak (Oct 15.08 )
• Spaces and Connections: virtual creativity? (Oct 14.08 )
• Spaces and Connections you value: public spaces (Oct 13.08 )
• Spaces and Connections you value: Student view about technology in the classroom (English and Spanish) (Oct 10.08 )
• Teaching 2.0: Web 2.0 in HE Part 2 (Oct 09.08 )
• Teaching 2.0: Web 2.0 in HE Part 1 (Oct 07.08)
• The Launch: We’re having a party…who’s invited (the launch and questions of who creates community (Oct 07.08)
• Collaborative work (Oct 06.08 )
• Reflecting on dog walking and the “Sheffield Academic” (Oct 03.08)
• Hmmm, delicious! Social bookmarking in teaching (Oct 02.08 )
• What “harm” can it do? Students and self-harm, what to do? (Oct 01.08 )
• Sharing: Knowledge transmission mistakes and YouTubing the teachingcommons (Sep 30,2008)
• Videos from the Learning and Teaching Advocates Awayday 2008 (Sep 29,2008)
• What is TASH and what will it do? Come find out on September 16. (Sep 12,2008)
• Please come back on September 29 (Sep 09,2008)
• If you want to publish on your teaching practice here are places you can do it… (Aug 11, 2008)
• One of the best University websites I’ve come across…and it is by students for students! (July 29, 2008)
• Good Practice blog on hiatus) (July 04, 2008)
• Report from the HEA conference: Part 2) (July 03, 2008)
• HEA Conference Report 2008: Part 1)(July 02, 2008)
• Student video about inclusivity and the University of Sheffield on Facebook) (June 30, 2008)
• Case Studies Project background paper (HEA paper)(June 30, 2008)
• What does meaning mean? (musings on an exam question)(June 27, 2008)
• Enquiring (inquiring) minds want to know… (June 26, 2008)
• I love my Personal Tutor campaign winners (June 25, 2008)
• Anonymity in examining (June 24, 2008)
• Watching other teachers teach: teachers.tv (June 23, 2008)
• Learning from External Examining? (June 17, 2008)
• Teaching Inspiration? (June 16, 2008)
• Teaching Stats Teaching Circle Report (June 13, 2008)
• Case Studies Workshop Report: Positioning the Teaching (June 12, 2008)
• Linking maths to careers for undergraduates in Politics (June 11, 2008)
• Facebook tips (June 10, 2008)
• Textbooks versus e-books (June 09, 2008)
• Ms Mentor: the “best friend” every academic/staff should have(June 06, 2008)
• Wiki and Blog Workshop Report (June 05, 2008)
• Looking back on Good Practice Week (June 04, 2008)
• The real experience behind the International Experience Event (June 03, 2008)
• Student-led peer presentations and assessments don’t always have to be like the Eurovision song contest. (June 02, 2008)
• Good practice week: Round-up (May 30, 2008)
• Good practice week: taming technology (May 29, 2008)
• Good practice week: Curricula for all - making learning and teaching personal(May 28, 2008)
• Good practice week: Assessing large groups, doing group work (May 27, 2008)
• Good practice week: Great Expectations - or should we say gr8 expectations? (May 27, 2008)
• Good practice week: Opening Debate: the idea of excellence (May 27, 2008)
• Good practice week: making technology work for you (May 27, 2008)
• Inclusive Faculty Boards: Student Reports, Part 3(May 23, 2008)
• Inclusive Faculty Boards: Student Reports, Part 2(May 23, 2008)
• Inclusive Faculty Boards: Student Reports, Part 1(May 23, 2008)
• Employability in the curriculum (Careers Service and MOLE)(May 21, 2008)
• Academic Resources: The Academic Skills Hub (May 20, 2008)
• Good Practice in assessing students (May 18, 2008)
• Upcoming June 2008 Workshops, Mary Poppins and blogs (May 16, 2008)
• The ScHARR Plagiarism exercise (May 15, 2008)
• Report on the “Spotlight on Research-Led Teaching” Day Event in the School of Law: Part Two(May 14, 2008)
• Report on the “Spotlight on Research-Led Teaching” Day Event in the School of Law: Part One(May 13, 2008)
• Case Studies databases (May 12, 2008)
• Wikipedia wacky? the pros and cons of wikis (May 09, 2008)
• Teaching International Students? Making Sense of University Expectations (May 08, 2008)
• Assessment criteria: getting students to create their own (May 07, 2008)
• Writing with Wikipedia: a student’s perspective (May 06, 2008)
• Unfair means: plagiarism (May 02, 2008)
• CILASS: staff/student connections (May 01, 2008)
• Critical interdisciplinarity and carefully constructed spaces: CiLT (April 30, 2008)
• HEA Workshop Report: Feedback (April 29, 2008)
• Cool!: teaching tips website) (April 28, 2008)
• More than one way to skin a cat…study skills (bang a gong!). (April 25, 2008)
• Why teaching does matter in a research-led University (April 24, 2008)
• Report on “Teaching Stats Teaching Circle” Workshop (held on April 16th) (April 23, 2008)
• “Students Assessing Feedback” Workshop Report (April 22, 2008)
• Study Abroad Manual now available (April 22, 2008)
• Blog redesign and workshop mania (April 21, 2008)
• Inclusive Currical Week: concluding comments (April 18, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: educating Rita! (April 18, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: how LeTS can support inclusivity (April 18, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: learning from personal experience (April 18, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: disability rights (April 17, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: inclusivity and race in literature (April 17, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: Inclusive Curricula and induction strategies (April 17, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula and mental health (April 17, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: the academic’s contribution (April 17, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: how personal experience contributes to inclusive practice (April 16, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: realising potential (April 16, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: benefits of diversity (April 16, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: towards a definition (April 16, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: Inclusive Curricula - A Student Perspective (April 15, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: student input (April 15, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: a definition of disability (April 15, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: small changes can have a big effect (April 15, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: Inclusive curricula – why bother? (April 14, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: Inclusive Curricula and the National Trend? (April 14, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: celebrating our diversity (April 14, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: Accessibility benefits everyone! How I learned to love accessible technology. (April 14, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: celebrating our diversity (April 14, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: Why are we focusing on Inclusive Curricula? (April 14, 2008)
• Inclusive Curricula Week: welcome (April 14, 2008)
• Reflecting on consistency: A students’ point of view (April 11, 2008)
• Supporting the Supporters (April 10, 2008)
• What happens if Youtube make your lectures redundant? (April 9, 2008)
• Student Guides: Freely given? (April 8, 2008)
• Killing a wiki? Mass collaboration and teaching (March 28, 2008)
• Senate Award Launch (March 27, 2008)
• To post or not to post: thoughts on lecture notes (March 26, 2008)
• Flexibility and the “Google Generation” myth (March 25, 2008)
• Japanese Excellence (March 20, 2008)
• Feedback Questionnaires (March 19, 2008)
• International fame and…blogging and podcasting abroad (March 18, 2008)
• Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Tokyo! (March 17, 2008)
• Feedback (March 14, 2008)
• NICE Excellence (March 13, 2008)
• I tried discussions in MOLE but they didn’t really work… ) (March 12, 2008)
• Knocking on doors in the School of Law ) (March 11, 2008)
• Reporting on the Marking Criteria and Teaching Team Workshop ) (March 10, 2008)
• Work Placement Week: Employers and the world of “placements” ) (March 7, 2008)
• Work Placement Week: How does students learning change as a result of their placement experience? ) (March 6, 2008)
• Work Placement Week: Why industrial placements work (the academic perspective) (March 5, 2008)
• Work Placement Week: A typical day in the life of an industrial placement student at National Grid (March 4, 2008)
• Work Placement Week: An introduction (March 3, 2008)
• Reflections on the Interprofessional Learning Session: Communicating with the person with communication impairments (Faculty of Medicine) (February 29, 2008)
• Student sees excellence in feedback (even calls it wonderful) read on to find where… (February 28, 2008)
• iPods, Facebook and using e-learning to get students to talk to one another (February 27, 2008)
• 65 not out: Running the marathon of the mind (February 26, 2008)
• "Learning is a matter of attitude, not aptitude” (February 25, 2008)
• Stats and Sushi (February 22, 2008)
• Some thoughts on the Senate Awards Scheme for Excellence in L&T (February 21, 2008)
• The wonders of technology (MOLE) (February 20, 2008)
• The Importance of being Networked (February 19, 2008)
• The importance of being Earnest (February 18, 2008)
• Inform yourself about information literacy (February 15, 2008)
• Creating a Departmental sense of home (February 13, 2008)
• The two R’s: Reading and Writing (February 12, 2008)
• One of those days…(Part 2) (February 11, 2008)
• One of those days…(Part 1) (February 11, 2008)
• Who says plagiarism is wrong (February 8, 2008)
• Excellent Evaluation (February 7, 2008)
• Using podcasting to support learning (February 6, 2008)
• Meatspace (February 5, 2008)
• Technophilia (February 4, 2008)
• Freedom to fail? (February 1, 2008)
• Curiosity and Doubt (January 31, 2008)
• Students leading students (January 30, 2008)
• Reflecting on the "Workshopping Workshops" (January 29, 2008)
• Inclusive Curriculum (non-linguistic learning) (January 29, 2008)
• The importance of small adjustments (January 28, 2008)
• Online Inquiries (January 25, 2008)
• Developing learning and teaching skills in the School of Medicine (January 24, 2008)
• The workshop went so well... (January 23, 2008)
• Completely spontaneous Case Studies Project plug by a student (I swear!)(January 22, 2008)
• Good Morning, good practice morning!!! (January 21, 2008)
• Quizzical results? (January 18, 2008)
• An Excellent Toolkit (January 17, 2008)
• Devil’s Advocate and glorious rewards (January 16, 2008)
• Lecturing sins and cups of tea (January 15, 2008)
• A little tiny message from the L&T Conference… (January 14, 2008)
• Our students did a brilliant session! (January 14, 2008)
• Access, Flyers and Videotape session (January 14, 2008)
• Getting the Message (January 14, 2008)
• Learning and Teaching for CILASS Ambassadors (January 14, 2008)
• Experiences of CILASS Ambassadors (January 14, 2008)
• SUs and video (January 14, 2008)
• Research-led teaching???? (January 14, 2008)
• Work, rest & play (January 14, 2008)
• Scholarship of teaching (January 14, 2008)
• Inevitably…on Inclusive Curricula! (January 14, 2008)
• Using posters as a form of assessment (January 14, 2008)
• Thinking about assessment (January 14, 2008)
• Reporting live from the L&T Conference 2008 (January 14, 2008)
• Good practice and field trips (January 14, 2008)
• Blogging live at the University of Sheffield Learning and Teaching Conference!!! (January 14, 2008)
• Use of Wikis in the teaching of Legal History (January 14, 2008)
• The blog is getting ready to launch and I’ve agreed to write something…what do I write? (January 11, 2008)
• Get paid to write Case Studies.... (December 6, 2007)
• Welcome to the Good Practice blog (November 15, 2007)
• Do research and teaching really help each other? (November 7, 2007)
• Group formation in Induction Week (November 6, 2007)
• Introductions:Nametags(November 5, 2007)