A set of categories used to track which pages need review/can be deleted/are good to go.
Live webinars provide teacher presence and an opportunity for you to interact with learners. You can run webinars using Blackboard Collaborate or Microsoft Teams or Zoom Webinars can combine input, activity and feedback. Collaborate has a whiteboard and discussion space. This is harder for large groups for activity and feedback and more useful for small group […]
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Collate resources and weave a narrative using Sway, part of the Microsoft Office 365 suite of tools. Sway can be likened to an interactive workbook/interactive pre-reading. Interactivity can be built in using embeddable resources such as Padlet, or Microsoft Forms, another Office 365 tool. Responses from Microsoft Forms are collated in a spreadsheet which you can then
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Invite students to input their thoughts/opinions/feedback onto a shared space. Padlet is a web-based, collaborative tool that allows your students to share a wide range of content that all other students can view. This can be done live during an online session or asynchronously. (Asynchronous activity is especially useful if students are in different time zones or
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Online activities need not involve cutting edge technology. Most online and distance courses include activities in which students read through materials or consider key resources. You can give some information about what you want students to do with the reading and/or follow up with discussion of an associated activity. Adding low bandwidth activities as part
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Ward rounds teaching seemed impossible when COVID struck. Flo Mouy (Cardiac Teaching Fellow, South Bristol) used video conferencing software to bring students to the patients remotely. Despite some disadvantages, this worked so well that Flo thinks the approach will play a role alongside in-person ward rounds post-pandemic. The approach afforded more students to be taught
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At certain stages of the pandemic, Flo Mouy (Cardiac Teaching Fellow, South Bristol) encountered situations where some students could attend ward rounds, whilst others were self-isolating. A pragmatic, hybrid approach entailed remote students taking a history, and those on the ward examining patients. By switching roles when self-isolation finished, students continued to benefit from the
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Like most educators, David Little had to tackle the challenges of teaching remotely during the pandemic, interacting with students he couldn’t see. Thankfully, the session and subject (year 3 radiology) lent themselves to online delivery. With some adjustment, David successfully delivered a highly visual, interactive session. He achieved engagement through pre-materials, a quiz-based discursive approach,
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Podcasts allow you to convey information that students can engage with in circumstances they couldn’t engage with text or video (for example, when walking or driving). Like videos, they may convey a sense of teacher presence to students learning at a distance. You can create podcasts for your students, use podcasts available online, or ask
Jonathan Ives delivered this online teaching session to medical students across the clinical academies using a Microsoft Surface Hub. He organised the session around a single interactive task followed by extensive feedback and discussion from different Hubs. This session demonstrated that it is possible to interact directly with students even at scale. Tools: PowerPoint, Surface
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The iBSc Bioethics programme team (Zuzana Deans, Richard Huxtable and Jonathan Ives) responded to COVID, flipping the programme to make the best of the teaching modes available. For the ‘Introduction to Bioethics’ unit, the team replaced the old model (2 hour interactive lectures, reading tasks, and research seminars) with 3×20 minute videos, individual tasks, online
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