Month: September 2020
Discover your voice: Final video release – Are your virtual students listening?
Techniques to engage students with your audio and video recordings
Discover your voice: Tips on portraying confidence in your teaching voice
Combat performance anxiety and make voice speed, projection, diction and inflection work for you.
Academic Senate Top 5, September 2020
On Tuesday 1 September, Academic Senate held a meeting via Zoom. Here are the top five items discussed at the meeting.
Three ways to enhance academic integrity in your unit
The rapid move to online learning has left many students increasingly vulnerable to contract cheating companies. Here are three ways to deal with it.
The science demo: an experience going virtual
Fun, messy science demos in classrooms. What do you do when you and your audience need to connect via the Internet instead?
Introducing PLaCE: the framework for learning and teaching staff development
The Professional Learning and Capability Enhancement (PLaCE) framework sets out the capabilities for the professional practice of teaching and teaching support at Macquarie.
Spotlight on practice: Keeping students on track and motivated – Nathan Hart
Nathan Hart (Biology) shares his intensive approach to student communication this year and his own learnings about iLearn – in-between filming experiments on crickets on his kitchen table.
Spotlight on practice – The essentials of online learning: flexibility, genuine care … and a cat – Phil Chappell
Phil Chappell (Linguistics) tells of the importance of showing genuine concern for students and how he redesigned his unit to handle any situation!
A new process to prepare exams
Changes for the November 2020 exam period aim to improve the quality of exams and the student experience.