Look what Marta and Lucy have come up with! It’s primarily a printed resource that Marta and Lucy have sent to students via their departments, but I’m interested to know how you think we should put it on the website. We could just embed it (as below) but it doesn’t really work because on paper [...]
May 122009
Here’s some more on PowerPoint and boredom Why do 60% of students find their lectures boring? | Education | The Guardian via kwout
Apr 222009
I’m just playing round with the poll feature really, but wondering what people thought for for a web address for Student Development (this wouldn’t replace existing ones e.g. www.le.ac.uk/careers) Whatever we choose for the web address would also be the same for the central email address (again, not replacing any existing ones).
Here’s a brilliant new video from Chris Willmott in Biological Sciecnes on studying medicine after biological sciences. Chris has developed a raft of resources including videos and presentations for bioscience students. He gets alumni to come and present to students on different careers. Areas covered so far are: Clinical Trials Conservation Cosmetics Forensics Formulation technologist [...]
Mar 172009
I was teaching academic writing to computer science students again last week. The session went ok but I can’t help feeling it could be much better. My experince resonated with much of what we have discussed in our sharing practice meetings about teaching writing. I had a quite a few exercises, most of which were [...]
Mar 092009
A few of us met today to begin a project to improve and expand our web resources. Currently our resources are organised under study areas (which we plan to stick too) but we do have a lot of long lists. I’d been thinking that something a bit more like the BBS Skillswise site might be [...]
A bit long but useful (45 mins) but useful background at least to the Getting Things Done method.
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