Tools and Resources

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…