"The Low-Down" from the first Study Day

Many thanks to everyone who put so much effort into the Lowdown; here's a presentation based on photos of it:

Low down

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Course introduction presentation from Saturday

Course

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Here's the presentation (annotated) from the Course Intro. stop on the carousel. More to come! This has also been posted on the www.bedspce.org.uk homepage.

Study Day; 2 October 10

Thanks to everyone who attended and contributed to the Study Day today; particularly to the support staff at the university who made a very complex schedule work so seamlessly. With so many people and so many actitvities to manage in such a tight schedule, you did a terrific job--and that was not only important in its own right, but it also "sent a message" to people engaging for the first time with the university, that it is an outfit in which you can have confidence, and which adheres to the highest standards of educational practice.

We shall post a more detailed evaluation report on this blog in a few days when we have processed the questionnaires, so keep reading--thanks also to everyone who completed the survey.

Guidance and resources for teaching referencing

It's the time of the year to do that again!

Some useful tools for those of you starting the course

The link is to a post on another blog about some useful free (or at least cheap) on-line tools.

Odd links...

Just some things I have recently come across:

• Here's another nail in the coffin of all that egregious "Brain Gym" and "Accelerated learning" nonsense. Brain lateralisation doesn't have anything to do with "creativity"--http://mindhacks.com/2010/09/12/the-death-of-right-brain-thinking/
  
• Tips on how to write less badly

Welcome back!

Welcome to the course or to the new academic year! Do look back over previous posts for an orientation about what has come up before and to check out BREO.