From Advocacy to Discovery: Different approaches to learning in the digital age
In this podcast, Paul Levy shares four different and overlapping approaches to learning. They...
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Overcoming the limitations of the mask
How do we overcome some of the limitations of wearing a Covid19 mask when...
Using PowerPoint while wearing a mask
How can we use PowerPoint slides to work in tandem with our mask-covered face?...
Advice on teaching with masks
Paul Levy offers practical help on teaching when lecturer and students are wearing masks....
Synchronising your masked voice with a verbatim slide
In this podcast, Paul Levy outlines a very simple and practical way of overcoming...
Experimenting with posture and stance when wearing masks in the classroom
In this podcast, Paul Levy offers practical advice on how to make best use...
Using the United Nations Sustainability Goals in a Classroom Activity
In this podcast I describe a simple and effective classroom activity that makes use...
Listen: In the year I was born: An activity to create empathy with you and your students and between students
This is an easy way of creating empathy with you and your students and...
LISTEN: Getting Rid of Those Lecture Bullet Points
This short podcast offers two practical ways to reduce the amount of bullet points...
Planting seeds in the online classroom conversation
This is an activity that runs over the entire term or semester. It is...
Listen: Expert of the Week: Increasing student interest and engagement
Expertise is something students often assume belongs only to the teacher. In an oline...
Listen: Being current and gaining student interest and engagement- the In the News activity
At the start of my online sessions with students I draw upon the “chat...
LISTEN: The power of asking repeated questions
Setting up a powerful question at the start of a lecture or seminar online...
LISTEN: Using the chat for energisers and icebreakers
Keeping things simple is the key to a good virtual classroom energiser or icebreaker....
LISTEN: Quizzing with your students
Simple quizzes can energise an online class. Here is some practical advice for injecting...
LISTEN: The Ten-minute Powerpoint rule
When spoken content in classes tends to go over ten minutes without a...
LISTEN: Turning delivery into inquiry
Over time, the energy of students attending online sessions can drop when the teacher...
LISTEN: Playing with disaster: a creative way to wake up student curiousity
This is a practical approach to increasing student engagement in the virtual classroom by...