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December 02, 2008
Power of the spoken word
December 02, 2008
Sounds Good is featured on p.5 of the 'Digital Student' supplement in today's Guardian, published in association with JISC. You can see the online version at: ...
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November 12, 2008
About to start stage one feedback.
November 12, 2008
by Simon Thomson, Deputy Project Manager, Sounds Good] At the end of this week over 100 students (I hope) will be submitting their work for me to assess. I used audio feedback last year on about 25 students from this very module. This year I plan to do about 80. The students upload the assignments via our virtual ...
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November 11, 2008
Here Goes....
November 11, 2008
Hi, this is my first post to the Sounds Good blog, and I only have 10 minutes or so. I'm Steve Dixon, Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at Newman University College, and we're just about to start audio feedback.Literally.As in about nine and a half minutes time.We're trialling with our first year cohort, so we have about 80 ...
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October 31, 2008
Are we nearly there yet?
October 31, 2008
As a dad and veteran of many car journeys from the midlands to the north, I’m used to people trying to get a handle on how much further there is to go. I recently had another experience of this when someone asked me about Sounds Good. They were under the impression that we were ‘nearly there’.We’ve certainly come ...
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October 26, 2008
Mean time for Greenwich
October 26, 2008
Last Thursday, 23 October, was a great night out in London for 10 from Leeds Met (and about 1,300 others). We were at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane for the Times Higher Awards. I’ve previously mentioned that Sounds Good was shortlisted for an award in the category for ‘outstanding contribution to innovation and technology’. I also ...
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October 12, 2008
Burglars, teachers and windows
October 12, 2008
Question: What’s the connection between burglars due in court and university teachers launching modules? Answer: Windows. If the link isn’t immediately obvious, it’s probably because your career has been different from mine. I used to be a probation officer and now I’m a university staff developer.When they hear the word ‘windows’, many people involved with technology think first ...
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October 04, 2008
After the big one
October 04, 2008
Is that it? The last few weeks have seen a major financial earthquake, with banks collapsing, governments shelling out billions and commentators struggling to find sufficiently apocalyptic words. Yet the world is still spinning and I’m promised my money is safe. So that’s all right then.Maybe not. Analogies can be misleading, but let’s explore a familiar scenario from geology: ...
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September 29, 2008
Let's not get carried away
September 29, 2008
August was relaxing but September is hectic. This is often true for those of us who work in UK higher education, but Sounds Good is making September 2008 even more of a whirl than usual for me. Not that I’m complaining.This month I’ve led sessions about using audio for assessment feedback at:Leeds Met’s Assessment, Learning and Teaching Conference;the Association ...
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September 27, 2008
Sounds Good blog moves
September 27, 2008
Sounds Good's web arrangements are changing. We're moving the site and altering the way things work. The main aim is to make it easier for people to contribute. We'll continue to use our URL, www.soundsgood.org.uk, but it will eventually point somewhere else. As a first step, we're stopping posting to the existing blog and posting instead to a new ...
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September 25, 2008
ASEL and HEA Engineering and GEES Subject Centres
September 25, 2008
As part of our project dissemination we were invited to bid for some additional funding by the HEA Engineering and Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Subject Centres back in July. This funding came from the JISC Widening Stakeholder Engagement call under the EMERGE UIDM project. This bid was successful and a call went out on the HEA Engineering ...
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