by kate | Aug 9, 2020 | current awareness, higher education, online learning
Someone recently asked me where I find the articles that I share internally and in trying to respond, I realised my approach to current awareness is too complex to explain in a Discord chat. Instead, I thought I’d share the strategies I use to (attempt to) stay...
by kate | May 26, 2020 | online learning, presentations
Yesterday, I gave a presentation on digital first teaching and learning. This post shares resources related to the seminar. In the presentation, I use the royal ‘we’ a lot. This ‘we’ mostly refers to the higher education sector as a whole. The...
by kate | Mar 23, 2020 | connected learning, good teaching practice, social media
The term ‘social distancing’ has entered the collective vocabulary in a big way. I think it’s a terrible term. What we should be doing is ‘physically distancing’ and stepping up our social presence using technology. That holds true for our teaching. In the...
by kate | Nov 19, 2019 | Web101
A couple of months ago, I presented a seminar called Web 101. It focused on what educators, learning designers and learning support professionals can learn from disciplines related to the context we operate in: the web. The web is my classroom, and I know that...
by kate | Aug 24, 2019 | Web101
Last month, I presented a seminar called Web101. It focused on what educators, learning designers and learning support professionals can learn from disciplines related to the context we operate in: the web. The web is my classroom, and I know that pedagogy is only one...
by kate | Jul 6, 2016 | presentations
Back in April, I spoke on a panel of educators at the Postgraduate Student Experience Symposium. I talked about our degree, our students, our students’ expectations of the course, and the challenges my colleagues and I are facing as teachers in a multimodal...
by kate | Jun 14, 2016 | tools
At the beginning of the semester, a colleague asked me if I’d share my thoughts on the best place for hosting video content for teaching and learning with someone new to his team. I thought my response might be useful for others, too, so I’m sharing it...
by kate | Jun 12, 2015 | assessment, productivity ninja tips
I dislike marking so much that sometimes I wonder if I can actually do this academic gig for the rest of my career. It’s hard to explain my dislike because I also like it at the same time… It’s great to see how students are doing, and I particularly...
by kate | Jun 9, 2015 | productivity ninja tips, tools
I’m always looking for ways to do things more efficiently and I thought I’d share some of my productivity ninja tips in a series of blog posts. Here’s the first! I use about a bajillion different web services in my teaching, and I pay for premium...
by kate | Jun 4, 2015 | connected learning, presentations
Last month I presented on using social technologies for connected learning at a QUT Twilight Teacher PD event for school teachers. It was a lot of fun and led me to discover what I’m sure will be my next hobby: making programmable wearables. I have visions of...
