Humanities Teaching and Learning Blog

Category: Good Practice

My Passport to Success! – Empowering Students in Higher Education through Critical Self Reflection

by HUM eLearning | Apr 7, 2022 | Academic Advising, Employability, Good Practice, Reflection

Reimala Sivalingam and Jennifer Rose (AMBS) describe how they used an Academic Advising workbook to enable students to thrive by fully supporting their academic, well-being and employability needs.

Using Virtual Reality to Explore the Valley of the Kings

by HUM eLearning | Mar 22, 2022 | Enhancing Learning with Technology, Good Practice, Virtual, Augmented and Extended Reality

Nicky Nielsen (SALC) shows us how he used Virtual Reality to take his students on a tour of the tomb of Ramesses VI in Egypt.

Driving student engagement with financial news

by HUM eLearning | Mar 17, 2022 | Enhancing Learning with Technology, Good Practice

Chris Godley (AMBS) explains how he used the ForceRank app in weekly sessions to drive student engagement with financial news and current affairs.

Active language learning with VoiceThread

by HUM eLearning | Feb 24, 2022 | Enhancing Learning with Technology, Good Practice

Sandra Torres (SALC) describes how she used VoiceThread (VT) to engage students in active language learning during asynchronous teaching. VT was used to present content, develop communicative skills using interactive tasks and to provide formative feedback.

Virtual Field Trips using Google Earth/Maps

by HUM eLearning | Feb 22, 2022 | Good Practice, Virtual, Augmented and Extended Reality

Abi Stone (SEED) describes her use of Google Earth and Google Maps to create virtual field trips.

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.

Workflows for better Zooming and lecture recording

by HUM eLearning | Oct 13, 2021 | Enhancing Learning with Technology, Good Practice

Alex Gunz (AMBS) rereports on how he uses Open Broadcast Software (OBS) to build and deliver presentations asynchronously that integrate multiple applications in a fluid and articulate manner.