{"id":3097,"date":"2017-05-17T14:07:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T13:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2021-09-17T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T13:54:01","slug":"feeling-connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2017\/05\/17\/feeling-connected\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Connected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2017\/05\/lecturemontage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-113\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2017\/05\/lecturemontage.jpg\" alt=\"lecturemontage\" width=\"741\" height=\"493\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LTDS hosted the first of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/ltds\/about\/training\/feelingconnected\/\">Feeling Connected<\/a> events\u00a0last week. \u00a0The series is all about\u00a0how to\u00a0help to engage large students cohorts in the classroom and beyond. In this initial session we considered how to engage students in the lecture.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Chapman-Wilson brought an actors perspective on how to get the best out of, and look after our voices. \u00a0He had us humming, thinking about our diaphragms and tripping over tongue twisters.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Gill spoke about Powerpoint as an <strong>aid<\/strong>; we presented feedback from the recent TEA awards from NUSU on what student appreciate; heard top tips from colleagues via podcasts and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/about\/athena-swan\/contact\/staffprofiles\/alisongraham.html#background\">Dr Alison Graham<\/a> rounded the session off with real\u00a0examples and insights from her\u00a0use of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/ltds\/elearning\/sps-tp\/\">OMBEA student response system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Handouts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Tony&#8217;s handout: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2017\/05\/The-Voice-Handout.pdf\">The Voice<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Slides used in the session: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2017\/05\/Feeling_Connected_1.pdf\">combined slide-set<\/a>\u00a0(pdf)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Podcasts<\/h3>\n<p>We interviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/nuls\/staff\/profile\/sylviade-mars.html#background\">Dr Sylvia de-Mars<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/chemistry\/staff\/profile\/julianknight.html#background\">Dr Julian Knight<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/hca\/staff\/profile\/keithbrewster.html#background\">Dr Keith Brewster<\/a>\u00a0and shared their insights in the session.<\/p>\n<p>The links below take you to the recordings on ReCap.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do you <a href=\"https:\/\/campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=1f39a9c2-5d5f-4e37-a361-cef7d45e824b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approach planning a session<\/a>? (03:49)<\/li>\n<li>How do you <a href=\"https:\/\/campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=451b30b0-8ef4-4d5e-a74c-d1f12f19dc03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">make connections and be confident<\/a>? (03:06)<\/li>\n<li>How do you <a href=\"https:\/\/campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=8ce9d558-65ae-4eb6-8be3-8dbdd93862a8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maintain attention and keep students involved<\/a>? (04:46)<\/li>\n<li>What do <a href=\"https:\/\/campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=200d28c0-bad6-4889-9a8b-c9f37ea2e7d2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">students appreciate<\/a>? (02:40)<\/li>\n<li>What <a href=\"https:\/\/campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=4c433397-1d39-48bd-b738-e4c5d9f0febd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advice would you give<\/a>? (02:53)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to all who attended\u00a0and contributed to a lively session, and to and to colleagues who gave up their time to contribute before and after.<\/p>\n<h3>Insights from NUSU Teaching Excellence Awards (TEAs)<\/h3>\n<p>Rowan South and Dr Joe Barton from NUSU talk about what students value:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NUSU TEA report and large group teaching\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HKgjsM9Dtd4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Next in the series&#8230;staying connected<\/h3>\n<p>Our next Feeling Connected event will focus on how to stay connected between lectures. \u00a0It will take place on Tuesday 19 September in the Herschel Learning Lab and have a hands-on feel. \u00a0You can book via our web-page:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/ltds\/about\/training\/feelingconnected\/\">http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/ltds\/about\/training\/feelingconnected\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LTDS hosted the first of our Feeling Connected events\u00a0last week. \u00a0The series is all about\u00a0how to\u00a0help to engage large students cohorts in the classroom and beyond. In this initial session we considered how to engage students in the lecture. Tony Chapman-Wilson brought an actors perspective on how to get the best out of, and look &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2017\/05\/17\/feeling-connected\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Feeling Connected&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6573,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/6573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}