Sally Brown

Phil and I are travelling today to Plymouth to attend their PedRIO pedagogic research conference, where I am looking forward to hearing Glynis Cousin speak and attending the workshops. After that we are doing workshops for staff there on assessment and enhancing student satisfaction.

Phil and I are home for Easter and hope the weather is as nice as it has been recently. As mentioned in my last post, we are now opening bookings for the Assimilate Masters Level Assessment Conference on  Thursday September 6th. Please see the ttached flyer here. Assimilate Conference Flyer (788 downloads) The one day conference is free but has a maximum of 100 places, so do book soon if you would like to come. As well as presenting the results of our research, there is an international panel and twelve workshops in three parallel strands on innovative approaches to Masters level assessment from UK and international presenters.

We’ve cancelled our trip to Australia due to family illness and so for the next six weeks I am concentrating on my Masters level assessment project Assimilate. We will be sending out the call for bookings shortly for the International Conference at Leeds on Thursday 6th September. We have a superb set of workshops for delegates to attend.

Here are the main slides I used on February 23rd Bucks New (1358 downloads) . It was great to come back to High Wycombe, and see how things have progressed since the time I was a Visiting Professor there, and I even learned a bit about tango.

Here are the slides from the presentations I gave on February 22nd. What a wonderful trip to Ireland! I especially enjoyed the All Stars Wars show at the Waterford Theatre, for which I got the very last ticket.  Inspiring Teaching WIT (810 downloads) , Engagement WIT (669 downloads) , Getting Published WIT (609 downloads) .

Here are the main slides which Phil and I used in our presentation on 17th February, including several of ‘wider reading’. Plymouth NSS (742 downloads)

I was working with an  intersting group of colleagues at Leeds on Monday producing an assessment guide based on the Weston Manor manifesto for the HEA. The publication is due out later this year.  On 13th February I will be at the Assimilate Masters level assessment  steering group in Leeds and I have been busy getting the case studies up to date. Next task is to start writing up my Masters level research into journal articles.

I presented two workshops on  feedback and assessment at the University of East Anglia in Norwich today, where the weather was rainy but the welcome was warm. Thanks to all the participants for your engagement in exploring these crucial topics. The presentations are provided here. UEA Streamlining Assessment (1159 downloads) , UEA Assessing more students (627 downloads) .

On Wednesday  18^th January and Thursday 19th January I contributed to the Faculty of Education Community and Leisure’s  Inspiring Teaching conference at  Liverpool John Moores University where I ran two workshops on Inspiring Teaching,  joined a breakfast session for the Journal Club which is aiming to support staff across the faculty in writing for publication, I also offered consultation opportunities and co-delivered a keynote with Phil Race on Bringing your teaching to life. The latter was fun in preparation, not least because Phil and I have very different ways of working (he started life as a research scientist and at one point in my career I was a therapeutic drama tutor so our epistemological models are rather different). Here are the slides (in PowerPoint 2007 files in zipped folders) for both the workshops and the keynote. LJMU workshops (1162 downloads) , LJMU keynote (587 downloads)

Happy New Year Everyone
I’m at Liverpool John Moores University today for a one day workshop on improving large group teaching and another tomorrow on small group teaching. The presentation I am using today can be found here. LJMU Lecturing (598 downloads) . Here also are the main slides from my workshop on Small Group teaching, on 6th January LJMU Small Group (566 downloads) .
Next week I am visiting Northumbria University and working on my Assimilate masters level assessment project