EDGE Guidelines for Online and Digital Teaching and Learning
After Octopus
by ven_vve
1y ago
If you follow me on Twitter (or are in touch with me on Facebook) you may have noticed me occasionally sharing something from the EduFutura account such as this tweet back in September. EduFutura is a non-profit organization which I’ve been a member of for some time now. The EDGE project (Empowering Digital Teachers) which ..read more
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On talking to your online students
After Octopus
by ven_vve
1y ago
I’ll skip references to the fact that I haven’t posted on this blog for months now and dive right in, shall I? Right. Four semesters ago I wrote a post on how I’d decided to start adding audio recordings to the online course I teach and a follow-up post on the topic soon afterwards. In ..read more
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There shouldn’t be a crack in everything
After Octopus
by ven_vve
2y ago
One of the ELT related podcasts I listen to more or less regularly is TEFLology – A Podcast about Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. I’m going to digress briefly right at the start because I’ve been meaning to say for a while now that I enjoy and very much recommend this podcast. It’s informative and ..read more
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Type little and give extensive feedback
After Octopus
by ven_vve
3y ago
It all started on Twitter, as these things do. I had covid and was stuck at home, so it was as good a time as any to do some marking. Then I came across Neil’s tweet. I recommend you click through for the answers because quite there were a few suggestions and several people mentioned ..read more
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Some (new) observations on peer review
After Octopus
by ven_vve
3y ago
I recently completed a MOOC called Elements of AI. Let me first say that I am privately (and now perhaps not as privately) thrilled to have managed this because I’m highly unlikely to commit to a MOOC if it looks like I might not have time to do it properly (whatever that means) and it ..read more
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Practice makes perfect?
After Octopus
by ven_vve
3y ago
This has been sitting in my drafts folder for about a year. If I don’t post it now, I’m not sure I ever will, so here goes.  March 2020 I recently tweeted this. It then occurred to me that the tweet could be construed as a promise of a blog post, so I thought I ..read more
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It’s been a privilege
After Octopus
by ven_vve
3y ago
Those who have been following this blog a little longer (as in 5 years or so) since the dawn of time may remember this post in which I talked about the first semester I had assistant moderators: (mostly) graduate students who helped me moderate forum discussions and comment on student learning journal entries. It was ..read more
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A not so ordinary semester
After Octopus
by ven_vve
4y ago
I honestly expected I would be writing this post sooner, even though the frequency with which I normally produce new posts probably should not have led me to expect this. At the very least, I expected I would write something during the lockdown because, for some reason, I thought I might have more time. And ..read more
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Exam tourist
After Octopus
by ven_vve
4y ago
It’s that time of year again. I think I’ve written before about how much I dislike having to administer exams and if I had any choice in the matter, my students wouldn’t have to take exams at all, but it’s not up for discussion in a university setting where I live. Today I wanted to ..read more
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Should your online students (want to) talk to you?
After Octopus
by ven_vve
4y ago
This is a follow-up post on the one from earlier this month, on the audio files I’ve been adding to the online course this semester. Because several of the students had made the point in their learning journals that they were finding it challenging to focus on longer stretches of audio, I decided to try ..read more
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