Frustratingly, this course is giving me all sorts of ideas that I would love to put into practice but I can’t because the course I teach on isn’t mine.  I just hope that by the time I have a post in which I can run my own course and apply these ideas, I haven’t forgotten…

Next week, I will be singing and speaking at the singingacrossthechannel conference in Canterbury.  I’ve now finished writing my paper and I’m really looking forward to it, as it gives me the opportunity to carry out an experiment in ballad singing that I think will be quite useful.  I’ll tell you more about it soon. The…

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…

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…