Top 5 most read posts on the Learning and Teaching blog during December 2018

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  Social Media in Education

  The 2018 Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference (#SocMedHE18) comes to Nottingham Trent University, UK on the 9th January ...
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  Golden Tweeting Award

  I was very pleased and honoured to be awarded a Golden Tweeter Award for my engagement with the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Tw...
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  Robot Arms in Schools Project

  Santander UK  recently provided the funding for an outreach project within the Department of Computing, University of Northampton - lo...
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  Enhancing Computing Student Employability Skills Through Partnership Working in STEM Outreach

  Enhancing Computing Student Employability Skills Through Partnership Working in STEM Outreach - Springer : Scott Turner DOI: 10.1007/97...
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  Teaching Genetic Algorithms with Excel

  In a previous  post  I discussed using Scratch and Excel to model neurones. This post looks at using Excel and six-sided dice as a way of de...

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Golden Tweeting Award

I was very pleased and honoured to be awarded a Golden Tweeter Award for my engagement with the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Twitter Chat (#LTHEchat). To learn more about the award click on the image below.

There have been nine of these given out at the time of writing and two of these have gone to people at the University of Northampton. The other being Dr Hala Mansour in 2016.


What is #LTHEChat
The #LTHEChat is a weekly chat, 20:00-21:00 (UK time) Wednesdays,  conceived by Dr Chrissi Nerantzi and shared with Sue Beckingham as an opportunity for educators in higher education to discuss learning and teaching. It is an open weekly chat for anyone interested in higher education and providing an opportunity to share practices as well as ideas and connect with other practitioners on a regular basis. Each week the chat has a different focus, aimed at looking at a specific aspect of learning and teaching in HE. You don't have to say anything to be part of it, though after a while you probably will want to, following the discussion is ok. In fact you don't need a Twitter account to following passively just go to https://twitter.com/hashtag/lthechat 

Why I get involved is the people on it; every week you get an opportunity to discuss ideas, pick up new tools to help in my own teaching; but largely a great networking chance with some really interesting and supportive people.  

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Social Media in Education

The 2018 Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference (#SocMedHE18) comes to Nottingham Trent University, UK on the 9th January 2019 (yes I did get the date right).

Maren Deepwell, Chief Executive of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) is providing the keynote, aligning with the conference themes of Openness, Creativity and Digital Identity in Higher Education.


Sessions will include (but definitely not exclusive to)

• running course twitter accounts, 
• engaging students on social media, 
• personas, 
• Serious Lego Play, 
• collaborative learning,
• Active Learning Sets for off-site students
• twitter conversations
• institutional policy
• lurking

Full session list is available at https://socmedhe18.wordpress.com/session-information/ 

Book your place at https://onlinestore.ntu.ac.uk/product-catalogue/arts-humanities/conferences/social-media-for-learning-in-higher-education-conference-9-january-2019




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