Category Archives: Social Learning

Social learning: bite size practice webinars and a new national repository for teaching resources

Pedagogy and Pancakes Website: https://chrisheadleand.com/pedagogy-and-pancakes/ Twitter: @pedPancakes Pedagogy and Pancakes is a practice-sharing seminar series created by Dr Chris Headeland.  His idea is that you get your breakfast, sit down, relax, and enjoy some lightning talks run by colleagues. In … Continue reading

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Guest post 2: A Remote Learning Guide written by Students for Students: How to ensure your remote learning experience is effective, supportive and fun. #shuSMASH

This is a second guest post written for students by students Matty Trueman, Kai Ackroyd, Curtis Alexis-Jones, Gagan Warinch and Eimantus Lukocius. We are final year students at Sheffield Hallam University. Intro The way students learn remotely is becoming more … Continue reading

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Serendipity and social learning is POWERFUL!

This post is a personal example of social learning and serendipity which led to learning about how acrostics can be used and the creation of three animated videos. Last week I was following the conference hashtag #AHEConference2019  for the international … Continue reading

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Never stop learning – Where you can learn something new in 2018

Over the years I have engaged in a variety of learning opportunities which have included attending evening classes at local schools and then as a mature student at university.  However attending classes in person is not always convenient for those … Continue reading

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Student Guest Blogpost: SMASH (Social Media for Academic Studies at Hallam)

SMASH (Social Media for Academic Studies at Hallam) is a team of four IT with Business Studies students from Sheffield Hallam University looking to incorporate social media for the purposes of aiding higher education learning. Corran Wood Jess Paddon Ola … Continue reading

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Celebrating learning gain and teaching excellence through social media and digital narratives

  I facilitated a workshop at the  SEDA Spring Teaching Learning and Assessment Conference in Manchester on celebrating learning gain and teaching excellence through social media and digital narratives. The theme for the event was The quest for teaching excellence and … Continue reading

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Hypothes.is – a digital annotation tool for collaborative and active reading

To define annotation it is when you add notes, comments or opinions about a piece of writing,  or a drawing, photo, or diagram. Often these are critical explanations to add extra insight about something. These explanations can be necessary to … Continue reading

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