Maximising student engagement, connection and learning with Mentimeter
byWelcome news – online polling tool Mentimeter is now available for all University of Sydney Staff! Engaging students, particularly in large classes, is one…
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Using Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) in Courses
byInformation Overload Several years ago, a picture of an American professor angrily pointing to a t-shirt underneath his unbuttoned dress shirt went viral. The…
ASCILITE 2019 highlights: Playful Learning
byASCILITE 2019 was held at the Singapore University of Social Sciences at the end of 2019. The theme of the conference was ‘Personalised Learning….
How will you use ThinkSpace’s new digital wall in your teaching?
byThe possibilities are endless with ThinkSpace‘s HUGE digital wall. Use the wall for everything from visual exhibitions, data visualisation, interactive displays, presentations, promotions and multi-media…
Multimodal assessment – what, why and how?
byAll acts of communication are inevitably ‘multimodal’, in that all communication acts are a combination of modes. In written texts, the use of different…
EdTech Blog Review – Stanford University’s Tomorrow’s Professor – Flipped Classrooms Old or New?
byStanford University’s Tomorrow’s Professor blog series is a reproduction of a newsletter associated with the National Teaching & Learning Forum. A post which drew me in…
Educational Technology Blog Review: Hack Education
byThere is seemingly endless enthusiasm and hype in the educational technology world. Hack Education by Audrey Watters is one of my favourite blogs because the author…
EdTool Tips #14: Finding the answer to your Canvas questions quickly
byThere are a wide array of new and existing support options for Canvas and it can be hard to know where to start. We…
Thinking in Canvas: Get inspired by innovative Canvas sites from around the University
byAs we move into semester 2, over 90 units of study will be running their unit sites in Canvas for the first time. The…
Three Interactive Polling Tools Reviewed
byTo poll or not to poll, that is the question! Interactive Polling Tools (also called student response systems, ‘clickers’, or classroom response systems) have been…