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  • Pilgrims and travelling

    As it’s Christmas, I thought I’d share a photo of my desktop Christmas tree, which has grown a bit since last year.  I bought it a new pot as a present. I am, as usual, incredibly busy.  It never seems to stop.  Even when I find myself saying ‘things should ease off next week’, or…

  • Blended Learning Essentials – Embedding Practice Week 2

    The second week of the Future Learn Blended Learning Essentials course involved several video tutorials on how to use Moodle more effectively, which was very useful as I’ve never quite managed to get myself to a Moodle course.  I had no idea that Moodle provided such varied tools for helping students to learn, rather than…

  • November news

    Last Friday saw the publication of my first full length, peer-reviewed article, Verse Epitaphs and the Memorialisation of Women in Reformation England, commissioned by Liz Oakley-Brown when she was editor of the Renaissance section of Literature Compass.  I’m happy to say that it comes with its own teaching and learning guide, as well as supporting…

  • Blended Learning Essentials – Embedding Practice Week 1

    Before the summer vacation I completed the FutureLearn Blended Learning Essentials – Getting Started course, so when it finished I thought it probably made sense to sign up for the follow-up course on Embedding Practice.  As someone who teaches on a blended learning degree course delivered by Liverpool Hope University through Holy Cross College in…