Humanities Teaching Academy

Category: Teaching Ideas

Delivering Teaching Materials with Adobe Spark (now Adobe CCE)

by HUM eLearning | May 27, 2021 | Enhancing Learning with Technology, Teaching Ideas

Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo (AMBS) shares her experience of using Adobe Spark to deliver teaching materials.

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

by HUM eLearning | May 25, 2021 | Active learning (student engagement), Teaching Ideas

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 VoiceThread to provide accessible weekly introductions to key course content

by HUM eLearning | May 25, 2021 | Enhancing Learning with Technology, Multimedia, Teaching Ideas

Juup Stelma and Nahielly Palacios (SEED) show us how PowerPoints in Voicethread with short videos provide ‘snappy’ and accessible weekly introductions to key course content.

Using Padlet for math tutorials to make classes interactive

by HUM eLearning | May 21, 2021 | Active learning (student engagement), Enhancing Learning with Technology, Teaching Ideas

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

Using peer assessment to improve essay writing skills & understanding of assessment criteria

by Dan Rigby | May 20, 2021 | Peer assessment, Teaching Ideas

Dan Rigby (SoSS) discusses how he improved students’ essay writing skills and understanding of assessment criteria, with the use of peer marking, adaptive release, and breakout rooms.

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

by HUM eLearning | May 17, 2021 | Active learning (student engagement), Formative, Multimedia, Online content, Teaching Ideas

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.

Using live polling with Mentimeter to increase student engagement and link theory to everyday experiences

by HUM eLearning | May 13, 2021 | Active learning (student engagement), Enhancing Learning with Technology, Teaching Ideas

Nadim Mirshak (SoSS) discusses how he uses Mentimeter to encourage student interaction in both online and on-campus settings.

Using interactive and engaging online live activities

by HUM eLearning | Apr 23, 2021 | Enhancing Learning with Technology, Interactive content, Live collaboration, Online content, Teaching Ideas

Alexandra Hennessey (SEED) shares how she uses interactive and engaging online live activities to teach neuroscience terminology.

Making course unit readings meaningful and purposeful for students

by HUM eLearning | Apr 22, 2021 | Enhancing Learning with Technology, Teaching Ideas

Susan Dawson (SEED) used pre-session reading tasks for each week’s shared reading and set up a wiki for students to share and discuss their ideas and responses to the reading. She set post-session reflective tasks that enabled students to respond to the session content.