Faculty Development, Hochschuldidaktik, Play and Creativity in Higher Education, SoTL
Using museum’s techniques for teaching got me hooked, I am completely revamping my workshops and lectures. This year, I will have some rather big classes, in which group work and a dialogue with students will become near to impossible. The Problem Experiential (of course) one of the most difficult things to ask a first and … Continue reading More Adventures in Teaching Undergrads
Addendum 2021: since 2013 things have moved on a bit and h5p offers now more possibilities for creating interactive graphics or graphic layouts. http://infogr.am/beta/ Continue reading Experimenting with infographics
I had to share this. So my colleague found this gadget. And since we are currently preparing starter packs for new students I just had to experiment. Addendum 2021: Strip-Generator seems to be out of commission now. However, I found a freeware option that is working (May 2021) Comic Strip Maker Online & Free – … Continue reading Trying out @stripgenerator
Hiding behind a second language–bilingualism Homework task: I as a writer. I wrote my first stories when I did not yet know how to spell properly. So I substituted the difficult words with drawings in the middle of sentences. Poems, diaries, two novels (that patiently wait for my sporadic attention), blogs (Garment Witch and With Heart Mind … Continue reading English is like Make-Up
As part of my professional development I am undertaking a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education. We were tasked to contribute to a Blog within our VLE reflecting on respect. Strangely enough I feel safer to try out my homework on my own turf (so to speak) before posting it into the VLE’s blog. … Continue reading Trying out Homework
You know how a couple of months ago I had this cat obsession and tried to find out why we are so obsessed with sharing cat-pictures in social media? Yeah, well this time. I am all into MEMES! They cover anything from how to survive the Zombie apocalypse to very snarky comments about REF. (Okay, … Continue reading My meme, your meme, everybody wants meme meme
Almost ten minutes and almost ten years later I did it, first experiment with movie making software.This under 10 minute lecture is about writing a methodology chapter it is aimed for final year and master class students. It will give you a brief overview of the main points. Slide two gives a 1 minute introductory … Continue reading 10 Minute Lecture – Methodology Chapter
This is a blog response to Bookling who wrote an interesting post this morning that concurs with my own questions. I have occasionally ranted about my issues with appropriate data representation, which symptomatic for ethnography, can be quite messy. I will write an update on this once I am done with the final draft of … Continue reading Data Presentation, Analysis and Language
The Ender Saga – Book 2 Not too long ago a famous ethnographer wrote that as an ethnographer one needs to read, to appreciate all forms and styles of reading, not only scientific texts, but fiction and tales and even poems. Sometimes I wonder, if somehow in writing, universal truth is established as subtext, even … Continue reading Learning About Ethnography
Adventures in Academic Development 