I have rarely used a whiteboard in teaching in the past decade. Before you all gasp and think I’m subjecting my students to various forms…
It’s August and the season of walking a fine line between annual leave, finishing/starting research projects, and sorting out teaching prep for the forthcoming academic…
Our institutional email is Gmail which gives us access to all sorts of Google goodies for teaching including Google Classroom. I dabbled with it a…
Before we start, how many of you have sat in a meeting sorting out your email, doing your marking, reading a book, or playing a…
As a postdoc I had relatively little exposure to teaching (probably a standard quantity for a postdoc). Sure, there were a couple of project students…
Hello and welcome to the 1st Chemistry Education Blog Carnival. We’ve had a range of submissions including blogs, webpages and some very creative ways to…
When I set the prompt for this carnival, I thought I was picking something fairly straightforward. Now I’m struggling to home in on one particular…
I’ve been dabbling in the automatic marking of tests and quizzes for several years now. By this, I mean a web-based set of questions that…
I have been reading about how colour vision deficiency (colour blindness) can cause issues for people. I was very interested in this article (http://colororacle.org/resources/2007_JennyKelso_ColorDesign_lores.pdf) and…
The more I go to education conferences, days, read journals and otherwise engage in the ephemerous activity of scholarship, the more cynical I start to…