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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Video, eo, eo
Sorry for the naff title, which I nabbed from a song from my all-time favourite film, but over the last couple of days video seems to have been one of the twin centres of my life. On Friday, I will speak at the Mary I conference in London the conference, but I won’t actually be…
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Summer holidays with history
After being rather unwell at the beginning of 2016, I decided that this summer I would spend as much time on holiday as I could. This was only made possible by the fact that we have access to a caravan that is currently in Oban, and we have a trailer tent, and it meant that…
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Marine Lives and the way we conduct research
Back at the beginning of July, I chatted via Skype to Colin Greenstreet of the Marine Lives project about how I do my research. It was one of a number of interviews that Colin carried out so that the project leaders could tweak the functionality of their database in order to make it as useful…
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Taking Stock
As the summer vacation seems to be a good time to take stock of where things are, I thought I’d share a few bits of news. First, the bad news: I didn’t get the British Academy Postgraduate Research Fellowship for which I was shortlisted, which was disappointing to say the least. I am, however, very…
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Blended Learning course weeks 3 & 4
In a follow up to my previous post, this is my reflective log on Weeks 3 and 4 of the online blended learning that I am undertaking this summer. Week 3 of my FutureLearn Blended Learning Essentials course proved much more useful in a practical way. (Again, any sections in italics are definitions provided by…
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Blended Learning course week 5
Here is my reflective log on the final week of my FutureLearn Blended Learning Essentials course. It’s certainly been an interesting few weeks. The final week of the course focuses on how we can use blended learning to accommodate students whose needs are a bit different – those with learning disabilities, for example, or caring…
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