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Teaching Online Workshops 2021-2022 The Teaching Online Workshops series aim to demonstrate and share good practice in teaching with use of technology.

WORKSHOP 1

Dual Delivery with Pre-sessional students

Ruth Fordham & Rachel Heasley, University Language Centre (SALC), 24 September 2021

Over the summer, Ruth Fordham, Rachel Heasley and other colleagues briefly tested out Dual Delivery with Pre-sessional students. Their experience provides valuable insights into the practicalities and realities of this new way of teaching and learning, so we hosted a casual chat with them so that they could share what they had done, as well as their answering questions from a live and online audience. They touched on technical issues, the importance of managing the students' and your own expectations, and discussed steps that we can all take to transfer the best of 'online' and 'offline' into dual teaching and learning.

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Ruth and Rachel's Zoom instructions are here, and the guide they had shared with students can be found here (you are welcome to use or adapt it). Before leaving, do please leave us some feedback on the session or our TOW workshops in general, and if there was something you would have liked to have said or asked had you been in this session, do feel free to continue the conversation via the button below:

WORKSHOP 2

Where students are coming from: Student experience and teaching at A level

Dan Foulder, Loreto College, Manchester - Tuesday 5th October 1:30pm

JIn this session we will discuss where students are 'at' when they finish A levels and start undergraduate study. This will include monitoring of different groups of students, including widening participation students and those with additional needs. We will explore how this can be used to inform teaching and support the transition from sixth form to university.

Delivery mode: On campus - Samuel Alexander A201.

WORKSHOP 3

Piazza Discussion Boards in Humanities – Why Bother?

Max Jones (SALC) - Wednesday 10th November 12-1pm

Joining forces with SALC-based Teaching Innovation Collective, this presentation will investigate the use of Piazza Discussion Boards (PDBs) to support teaching and learning in the humanities. Prof. Ralf Becker has demonstrated the benefits of using PDBs in Maths, but how far are these benefits limited to courses which set problems for students to solve with right/wrong answers? The presentation will examine how PDBs can be used to enhance courses in humanities disciplines, both by helping students develop key skills (e.g. identification of key quotations/examples in academic texts) and by helping build learning communities.

If you had difficulties viewing the above video, or would like to use subtitles, it can also be watched here via the Video Portal (you may need to sign in).

WORKSHOP 4

Home broadcasting: beyond the Zoom meeting. 

Michael O'Donoghue, SEED - Wednesday 24th November, 2pm

During the period of University closure staff and students learnt to use their laptop with built-in camera and microphone to link to meetings, lectures, and seminars. But what may be possible beyond connecting your laptop to a Zoom meeting? This session will report on a number of experiments and activities which explored ways in which a home phone line and kitchen became a multi-camera and participant live streaming studio. The session will demonstrate the equipment used and techniques adapted from television and broadcast to home use.

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WORKSHOP 5

What works in Teaching: Lessons learnt from the pandemic and what’s next...

Becki Bennett (SoSS), Wednesday 8th December 2pm

In this session Becki will do a roundup of what has worked and what we have learned so far from both teaching online and dual teaching including what students tells us it works. Looking into what is next, we will draw on University plans on flexible learning and how teaching may look like in the future.

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WORKSHOP 6

Active Language Learning with Voicethread

Dr Sandra Torres (Senior Language tutor in Spanish, SALC) & Olesya Shipova (eLearning, Humanities), Wednesday 19th January 2pm

This workshop aims to exemplify how VoiceThread can be used to engage students into active language learning during asynchronous teaching. VoiceThread was used to present content, develop communicative skills using interactive tasks and to provide formative feedback. Some examples of the types of tasks developed and the kind of interaction between students and the tutor will be provided. Feedback from students, advantages, limitations, and tips will also be presented.

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WORKSHOP 7

Piazza vs Padlet vs Blackboard Discussion Boards

Dan Rigby & Alex Squires (SOSS), Wednesday 23rd February, 1pm

Promoting student discussion and cultivating learning communities is increasingly important as more students seek remote and flexible learning opportunities. In this session we summarise our experience of using 3 online discussion tools: Piazza, Padlet and Blackboard Discussion Boards and share some new student feedback on their preferences regarding the 3 tools.

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Delivery mode: online

Panel Workshops

WHAT WORKS IN TEACHING?

Last semester, Becki Bennett hosted a presentation on what works in teaching where she looked at what we have learned throughout the pandemic. One thing which stood out is what really makes the most difference when it comes to good teaching and learning is you - the teacher. We also evaluated the teaching award nominations and saw in our students' responses that what they most value are teachers who are engaging, passionate and inspirational; those that provide support & a sense of community; lecturers who have an organised blackboard space with good communication skills; those who give great feedback and respond to theirs; interactivity, innovation and the use of alternative assessments. As a result, we are hosting a mini-series of panel based sessions, within the Teaching Online workshops, on the above themes. The first will be on being engaging, passionate and inspirational.

Panel 1: 16 March 2022

Being Engaging, Passionate and Inspirational

with Patricia Perlman-Dee (AMBS), David Butler (SALC), Ross Jones (SEED), Peter Backus (SOSS)

Patricia, David, Ross and Peter's students have described their lecturers as enthusiastic, extremely engaging and stimulating lecturers - raving about the way they promote active - rather than passive learning, how their content is delivered in exciting and innovative ways, and how they have inspired them to dive deeper into their subject matter. In the first panel in this series we learn more about what they did, and how you can incorporate some of their practices into your own teaching, as well as having had the opportunity to share experiences.

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Panel 2: 10th May 2022

Being organised, structured & communicating effectively

with Arif Khurshed (AMBS), Caitlin Henry (SEED), Paul Tobin (SOSS) and Amanda Banks Gatenby (SEED)

Arif, Caitlin, Mandi & Paul’s students describe their courses as perfectly organised and varied, talking about how obvious it is that their lectures have spent a great deal of time and effort into designing the overall structure of the courses, as well as their raving about their straightforward explanations – how being clear makes their learning more efficient, as well as providing an interesting experience.

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Panel 3: 24th May 2022

Being helpful, supportive and building a sense of community

with Jennifer Rose (AMBS), Melanie Giles (SALC), Johan Oldekop (SEED) and Nadim Mirshak (SOSS)

Jennifer, Melanie and Johan’s students describe them as dedicated, empathic lecturers who go above and beyond, discussing the way they prioritise their students’ mental health by checking in on how they doing, describing how approachable and kind they are, and how they’re always there to provide great support and guidance – and how this ‘human touch’ helps motivate them, even during the quite difficult period of the pandemic.

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