August 24, 2015
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Using Google to support your learning at university There are many tools available through Google that will support your learning at university. In order to access and use these you will need a Google account. You can easily sign up … Continue reading
August 17, 2015
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The Educators To start you thinking about education you could find this series of radio programmes on the BBC website at this link: The Educators In each of the eight programmes Sarah Montague interviewed a contemporary educator about their ideas. … Continue reading
August 7, 2015
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If you are starting the FDLT course in September you might like to read some advice from some of the students who have been on the course. You can find this above on the page called ‘Advice from students to … Continue reading
July 6, 2015
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Recently we concluded the curriculum module on the FDLT year 2 course. During this module we had explored the teaching of discrete subjects; making connections between subjects and the aspects of the curriculum that are not named as subjects. In … Continue reading
June 19, 2015
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In July the University of Northampton is running a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) called ‘Study Skills for Academic Success’. Anyone can enrol on this course – the link is here. If you are about to start a course in … Continue reading
June 11, 2015
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On Monday June 22nd from 5pm until 7.30pm the Northampton Inspire network is holding its final event of the academic year. The theme is ‘Forest Flight’ – and we will be exploring the physical and digital world across the curriculum … Continue reading
May 3, 2015
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From May the 11th you can sign up to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) called Let’s Teach Computing. Here are the details: Details Let’s Teach Computing is a Department for Education funded MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). It is … Continue reading
April 30, 2015
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Over the last few weeks I have been teaching a session about using images to support learning and teaching to FDLT Y1. we have explored searching for images online and issues of safety, copyrightt and citation / referencing. One useful … Continue reading
March 26, 2015
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Next Monday (30th March) there is a programme on Radio 4 called ‘Minecraft: more than a game’. Its on at 11am and than available on iplayer and on Box of Broadcasts if you a university student. In this programme the … Continue reading
March 17, 2015
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On Friday March 20th (if it is not too cloudy) we will be able to view a solar eclipse. An solar eclipse is when the moon passes between the earth and the sun blocking the sun’s light from reaching the … Continue reading