Humanities Teaching Academy

Category: Active Learning and Student Engagement

Better seminar participation through annotation exercises

by HUM eLearning | Aug 5, 2022 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Enhancing Learning with Technology, Good Practice, Learning Socially, Peer Learning

Noelle Dückmann Gallagher (SALC) describes how she uses annotation exercises to increase student participation in seminars.

Interactivity via Whiteboards

by HUM eLearning | Feb 17, 2022 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Enhancing Learning with Technology, Good Practice

In this brief review Ross Jones (SEED) explains how he successfully uses Whiteboard features in live online lectures to encourage student participation and engagement in class.

Authentic immersive reading with social annotations

by HUM eLearning | Feb 16, 2022 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Good Practice

Ana Niño (SALC) describes how she enhances immersive reading and reading comprehension with Hypothes.is – the social annotation tool.

Using Padlet to drive student engagement and contributions during online seminars

by HUM eLearning | Dec 10, 2021 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Good Practice

Matt Varco (SEED) uses Padlet together with Zoom breakout rooms to maintain momentum during online sessions. Here he breaks down the steps he takes before, during and after the sessions and explains how he uses Padlet ability to embed multimedia to make sessions more engaging, replicating online the immediacy of in-person discussions.

Delivering interactive lectures for large student cohorts using Adobe Spark (now Adobe Express)

by HUM eLearning | Jun 22, 2021 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Enhancing Learning with Technology, Good Practice

Nicole Martin and Rosalind Shorrocks (SoSS) show us how they used Adobe Spark to create asynchronous but interactive lectures for a large compulsory level 1 Politics unit.

Recording short pre-lecture video clips to introduce lectures and key themes

by HUM eLearning | Jun 1, 2021 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Enhancing Learning with Technology, Good Practice

Ian Mell (SEED) explains how he produced weekly screencasts and video to introduce students to topics being debated in lectures.

Using a Spark (now Adobe CCE) to guide preparation for a class

by HUM eLearning | May 25, 2021 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Good Practice

Alison Jeffers (SALC) used a Spark page to help first year Drama students gauge the scope and scale of work required to prepare for a class.

Using Padlet for math tutorials to make classes interactive

by HUM eLearning | May 21, 2021 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Enhancing Learning with Technology, Good Practice

Ekaterina Kazak (SoSS) describes using Padlet for her math tutorials to make the derivation classes interactive.

Using Adobe Spark (now Adobe CCE) for interactive online lectures

by HUM eLearning | May 17, 2021 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Assessment and Feedback, Good Practice

Ilma Nur Chowdhury (AMBS) shows us how she pulls together lecture videos, examples (videos and images), exercises, questions and quizzes in a seamless and interactive manner.