The Window on Teaching series at Warwick is run by the Library’s Teaching Grid. Speakers are invited from the teaching community to discuss and share information on current teaching practice and innovation. I try to attend as many as possible that are of interest and relevance. Most recently I attended a session run by Emma King from the Learning Development Centre on game-based learning, and specifically the potential for the use of controller free technology (e.g. Microsoft Kinnect) in learning. One of the best things about the series is that all sessions are recorded and the videos made available online. [...]
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Teaching Mindfulness
Today as part of the Window on Teaching series I attended a session entitled Teaching Mindfulness. It was led by Asaf Federman who is a Careers Consultant for Student Careers and Skills at the University of Warwick. The session began with a discussion about attention in which Asaf raised the question of whether or not we prepare students mentally for learning. We ask them to attend lectures and seminars, read around their subject, write assignments and sit exams. We might run sessions or provide documentation on note-taking, academic writing or other concrete skills, but do we offer anything to help [...]
Making the web work for you
Last week Jess and I ran a session called ‘Making the web work for you’ as part of a seminar series for researchers. The aim of the session was to introduce researchers to some online tools for finding and managing information. We covered the following: RSS feeds start pages search alerts table of contents alerts blogs Twitter social bookmarking The session had fairly poor attendance with only 3 of the 6 who had booked actually turning up. If we run it again we need to think more about how we market it to ensure researchers see the relevance of these [...]
