Supporting Language Teaching with H5P

Posted on 26th November 2021 by Gosia

Loiana Leal Pavlichenko – Lecturer in Portuguese School of Modern Languages Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences What did you do? Loiana has been using H5P to create formative exercises for students studying Portuguese at a range of levels in the School of Modern Languages. Using H5P Loiana has authored resources to support reading, writing, grammar, listening and pronunciation. Loiana uses H5P to present new material and to give students short activities to self-evaluate, Read more about Supporting Language Teaching with H5P[…]

Supporting Maths teaching with H5P

Posted on 25th November 202117th January 2022 by Gosia

Paul Mackay has been creating and incorporating H5P content as a regular part of teaching mathematics at INTO. The H5P content editor supports the use of LateX – speeding up the creation of content, and this is a feature that Paul uses in most of his resources.

Working in partnership: tackling sustainability challenges with a student-led virtual event

Posted on 17th November 202117th December 2021 by Claire Burnham

Students from our University took part in a successful online event with students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi (IITD) to share ideas around environmental sustainability.

Nearpod – the use of this interactive learning platform online and in the classroom

Posted on 6th October 202111th October 2021 by Claire Burnham

Nearpod is used in a series of lessons across INTO courses and allows a range of interactive activities to be incorporated into lessons. Find out more from Dr Paul Mackay and Dr Rachelle Maddison.

Bringing the rocks into your house, virtual fieldtrips (VFT)

Posted on 9th September 20219th September 2021 by ndl93

With Dr Cees van der Land, Dr Sanem Acikalin & Dr Mark Ireland Newcastle University School of Natural and Earth Sciences Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering What did you do? For our Earth Science students we developed a range of VFTs during which they learn to analyse and map the rock strata. We used Read more about Bringing the rocks into your house, virtual fieldtrips (VFT)[…]

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Virtual GPS: Online fieldwork using ArcGIS StoryMaps

Posted on 4th August 202123rd August 2021 by Gosia

Dr Louise Callard from Geography used ArcGIS StoryMaps to produce virtual fieldtrips: narrative, interactive map, photos (including 360o), videos, activities and questions.

Speech Cloud for independent learning of MA Translation and Interpreting students

Posted on 2nd August 20218th September 2021 by Claire Burnham

Dr Fred Wu developed Speech Cloud, a series a short video clips that allowed students to personalise their learning. He also made the most of Teams, Zoom and Canvas to successfully integrate learning materials.

Equitable Assessment Framework for today’s Digital Learners

Posted on 23rd July 20214th August 2023 by Claire Burnham

This collaborative project supported instructor’s adoption of the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework to help structure and communicate their assessments.

Co-design Sprint: An approach to engage students in the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Posted on 9th July 202115th November 2021 by Claire Burnham

A successful example of collaborative working, this design sprint approach resulted in some excellent ideas and inspired some new approaches to engaging students.

Informed dynamic changes to teaching practice using Panopto (ReCap) Analytics

Posted on 7th July 202117th January 2022 by Claire Burnham

Dr David Grundy used Panopto (ReCap) Analytics to inform changes and alterations to teaching approaches and activities for Executive MBA students.