Second Year Study Day 5 March

This post is to give you some advance notice about arrangements for the afternoon on 5 March and to enlist your help if possible.

The plan for the day as a whole is that Prof. Kathryn Ecclestone will lead the morning plenary on The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education (you might like to read her co-authored book, or at least the PCE chapter of it, in advance if you can: Ecclestone K and Hayes P (2008) The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education London; Routledge)

After lunch the Interest Groups meet to follow up on their discussions and report back on what you have implemented at work following Vivienne's session at the first Study Day this year, and then...

The rest of the day will be a cox and box split session:

Half of you will start with a session on Where next? looking at opportunities for further learning and development, including the IfL, CPD, the university's Diploma and MA programmes, while the other half will be looking at Enhancing learning with technology, and then you will swap over.

The technology session will probably involve a further split into two self-selected groups, "beginners" and "advanced", given that there is a wide range of knowledge and expertise represented in the whole group.

We hope that the Advanced group will largely be led by yourselves; it will be an opportunity to showcase ways in which you have made use of technology in your teaching, including social networking, blogs, wikis, twitter, and more specific tools such as Prezi or VoiceThread or even SecondLife (although I gather that is now a little passe).

There is not going to be very much time, so if you are interested in sharing your experience and demonstrating your practice, please get in touch with James Atherton as soon as possible and let me know your intentions. We'll review the offers we get, select those which offer a good range of ideas and are likely to appeal to a wide range of colleagues, and let you know if we invite you to present.

Similarly, if you are planning to join the Beginners' group we should like to hear from you about packages and techniques you would like to hear about from tutors (or indeed yourselves). These may be academic tools such as Zotero, presentation packages such as Prezi, blogging tools, cloud based facilities such as Google docs and the invaluable Dropbox.

Do get in touch so we can focus on what you want!

Watch this space for more information.