Power up your preparation for small class teaching
The first classroom that most of us step into as tertiary educators is usually a small, rather than a large one. Small class teaching…
Receive personalised expert review and support for your teaching in 2023
Teaching has often been described as a lonely profession. We can be surrounded by students but isolated in our experience and pedagogical decision-making. Stephen…
Maximising student engagement, connection and learning with Mentimeter
Welcome news – online polling tool Mentimeter is now available for all University of Sydney Staff! Engaging students, particularly in large classes, is one…
Teaching with Zoom Webinars
With large class teaching going ahead in the online format some of us are considering Zoom ‘webinars’ as the tool of choice for live…
How to better ‘feel the room’ when remote teaching
With Sydney facing an extended and uncertain lockdown, we find ourselves again starting the semester with remote teaching, facing a wall of black boxes,…
In Defence of “Good Enough” in HyFlex Teaching
For many teachers at Sydney diving into HyFlex teaching this semester for the first time, it has been like learning to drive; how do…
Tips for Teaching in HyFlex
The return to campus has ushered in new ways of teaching for many at Sydney; one of these is optimistically referred to as “HyFlex”….
Protecting your Zoom classroom
Since 23 March when the University officially moved all teaching to “online”, we have collectively embraced Zoom as our new and sometimes unwieldy teaching…
Help with educational technologies is now easier to find
From February 2020, information and help guides for Canvas, Turnitin, Echo360, SEAMS, ePortfolios, and other online tools for education will be easier to find,…