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This month I've assisted 4 embedded data stream sessions. Developed a couple of embedded session plans with Dave & John. & delivered an embedded session with Dave :) Currently pulling together a list of online resources that need refresh. A call will be going out for a group to do an initial review and prioritise of these and then we will be asking for volunteers to work on the refreshes.

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Phil commanded an exhaustive run of Embedded Datastream sessions last week which got several of us up and running leading on the Datastream resource… nice to get in at the deep end sometimes :)

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Hi there I have been designing and delivering some exam support both as part of the forthcoming new look MLE exam support and and for the embedded programme. Jain from the student team has created some lovely resources for the students to use in making a revision plan that allows the students to really visualise what actions they are taking to cover identified content they are learning, to move students away from cramming. In addition the students can then see how they can address different topics in a different order so that they are constantly being challenged to learn and commit to a longer term memory.

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Running workshops that cover specialist software limited to particular PCs is challenging. With Bloomberg, we use two trainers on two machines. The lectern PC has the slides and any web-based content. The Bloomberg laptop has, well, Bloomberg. Some lecture theatres allow us to project two different images at once. Usually we have to strategically switch between the two. We have got this down very smoothly now.

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It would be great if we could start collecting some of our best sessions (from a content, pedagogy and representation of MLE perspective), for a number of different topics (referencing, writing, finding information etc.) and perhaps for a number of audiences. Once we've decided on content we could then makes these 'best practice' from an accessibility perspective and use them to promote the programme on Medium publication. Michael

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Doing 2 sessions for economists on finding information and referencing. Currently updating presentation resources. Helped with some embedded sessions last week and a few more Business embedded coming up :)

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Been a busy month of new faces and getting to grips with a new role so thanks for everyone's welcome to the team. I'm at John Rylands today hosting our PGCE History trainees so hopefully the start of new connections for our widening participation and outreach work to branch out into school across the region. Lots of new projects starting to take hold so I'll undoubtedly start knocking on your door for favours imminently!

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I've stepped in and stepped up to cover for Michael's session on literature searching for first year musicology, and helped Charlotte deliver a UCIL session searching business resources. It has been interesting and insightful working with a non-business specialist class for a change, I'm not used to speaking to first year undergraduates. Something to take away was the benefit of zooming in with the browser when showing a database, especially for resources like Factiva which have a small limit for concurrent users.

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Currently working with Dave to write my first workshop plan for our two part embedded session. Special thanks to Dave for his tireless efforts and his never wavering support :D

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- Plagiarism is now live and has gone live. The medium version is still been worked on to add activities.
- Working on an embedded session with John on referencing and finding information.
_ still working on group work although progress is low! 2 of 5 have now gone through QA but they will be launched a series and published altogether.
_ I am meeting with Ralf Becker again to discuss the academic writing for economists mini site - specifically the version that can be embedded into Blackboard so we can get analytics.
- Padma and I are meeting a SU rep next week to discuss MLE doing some pop up sessions for PG's in the first few weeks of term.

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Hi, I can't make the meeting as I'm busy prepping for our first round of workshops on Monday.

I'm currently introducing Adam to the team (he's attending a intro for new starters, but I'll add him to this meeting) and the JRL side of WP programmes.

I'm also working on some digital activities for the kiosk in the new Syriac Galen Palimpsest exhibition in October. We've always outsourced kiosk activities/content to external companies but are now doing it in-house so it should be quite an interesting learning curve!

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Hi, I can't make the meeting this week due to an appointment. What I am working on at the moment which is slightly new is an embedded session about critical appraisal/constructing a critical argument for a group of speech and language therapists. The challenge will be managing feedback with 40 students on activities looking at example pieces of literature. I am excited to see how things go though and test it out!

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Sorry, I too am busy with ST interviews!
- I QA'd my first embedded session which was a fun adventure, and I only broke the sheet once which I'm taking as a win!
- As Carlene said, the Department of Maths is being very elusive so that resource is on hold.
- I have been working with Sam and John on making a STEM-ified version of the present like a pro resources for the project module that maths students do.
- I have also been creating resources for a training day for new maths and stats support tutors in collaboration with colleagues from the sigma network, we are expecting at least 4 guests from other northern unis for it!
Adam

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- Plagiarism - chris is working on creating on reflection boxes in the medium version with Glitch. The storyline version has entered the QA phase.
- The Maths transition resource is currently stalled we have chased the academic a couple of times but haven't had anything back.
- Work on the group work (accessible medium versions) is still in progress 2 of the 5 posts have now been QA'd I am still aiming to have all of these ready for end of sept. Although I will be bringing them back to T&D to consider what activities we might want to design for the medium versions as a longer term update to them.

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Sorry I'm not here this time - super-busy with ST interviews! Just carrying on with QA otherwise, and delivered a few OP workshops to very small groups of mainly PGs and Health Sciences placement UGs. Wondered whether we could ask AE to specifically target schools we know have summer placement students, to promote the workshops most relevant to them?
Kit

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Looking forward to working on a referencing session with the Saminator... Hopefully a template for ref sessions within FBMH
MrLéa

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Backwards design; let them eat cake (first)

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Backwards design; let them eat cake (first)

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I attended a keynote presentation from Prof Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Duke University (at the CarpentryConnect conference). When she teaches programming, she starts with something real and inspiring, gets students to make a small edit that updates a graph right away. Usually, programming is taught with lots of dull, abstract steps for the first few hours/days. Like adding a photo to a cake recipe, you can see the goal from the beginning. Does MLE give people "cake" at the start? http://bit.ly/let-eat-cake-cc

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Myself, Craig, Dave and Kathryn have been working on the refresh of Your literature review. We are planning to organise the workshop with activities based on each of the key stages in developing a review: understanding the purpose, searching, collating/organising and writing.

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The last few weeks we've all been doing lots of WP stuff, but this one does kind of count for MLE! We adapted the new Strategies for learning (Learning Scientists) workshop content to make a condensed version for MAP, to replace a workshop we did last year that wasn't as active. So far it's gone well, everyone's really engaged, and we've got lots of practical experience delivering the content - which benefits MLE further down the line! All the student goals for the session included revision in some form, so we're adapting our delivery to stress those applications even more. We also had lots of help from CS and the ST observing and facilitating on tables, and this worked really nicely - so loads of people know know the session, in some form!

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All sub groups have now attended board as part of the review. Board will now consider everyone's  comments and visit ops group top present any findings/ changes later in the summer.

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I'm doing a large series of tailored only embed for economics with around 15 courses. These will appear in the embedded system after its all be done but working to a deadline of semester 1. - Carlene

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I've been working on redeveloping the group work online resource into a medium blog post series with a focus on reducing the emphasis of belbin etc and instead highlighting skills for group work. This has got quite far but I'm too busy to get much done on this now till later in the summer, unless anyone can help? - Carlene

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Carlene, Michael & Sam are working on updating content of the plagiarism resource for semester 1 to reflect university changes in policy. Including the addition of contract cheating into the discipline policy. This will be a quick turn around so we might ask more volunteers to write small sections of additional content. - Carlene

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Sorry I can't make it this morning - I've been busy busy mostly coordinating stuff to do with MRE (content design, reporting, admin, marketing) but have spent a bit of time with Charlotte converting the MLE embedded workshop on resilience for a researcher audience on MRE. I am meeting with colleagues over in Psychology who are interesting in collaborating in future on content such as this, to get their feedback on the workshop plan, and they've also agreed to attend on the day (14 May) to provide feedback on how it can be developed going forward. Hopefully a good partnership for the future! Sarah

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Sarah Kneen and I attended this workshop in March and it was really useful, and I think very relevant for our division given the changes to the MLE governance/SLS and everything else which is going on!
At the training we covered some really interesting areas. Here are just a few:
- change is about learning and development - a manageable level of change helps people to feel more confident in their roles. When people become too comfortable in their roles they are less able to deal with change.
- people's different responses to change (some people shut down, others get very anxious and ask lots of questions)
- in order to influence others you have to understand their response to change which will be different to yours
- organisational changes can affect people's sense of identity and provoke a sense of loss
- the different journey's down the cycle of change (i.e. change is not linear and you can move backwards and forwards in your journey towards integrating changes)
- Spheres of influence and recognising what is in and outside of your control

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Looking forward with trepidation to our Bloomberg double-header/back-to-back sessions this Wednesday. Lea on vocals with John on Keyboards!!!!

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A new thing that still technically falls under MLE is delivering workshops at the new Eddie Davies Finance Zone. We have experimented with having the partition wall open or closed to teach to one or two rooms at once -- throwing one's voice across two rooms is challenging. We have experimented with delivering on the new AV system, pressing a button quickly to change between the Bloomberg laptop and the PC with slides... this could be smoother but is generally pretty effective. Phil

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To remind myself, as much as anything - would anyone be interested in working on an update/addition to the report writing online resource? This would be to take the existing resource and work with academic colleagues in Chem Eng to create a 'lab report' version.

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Sorry I can't come this week - Endnoting with Léa. Since the last meeting we did the 5 back to back groups of MEDN10000 Medline training sessions.Thanks to all who took part. The tutor who did the presentations was up for us being more involved with the presenting next year as each session was slightly different. It remains to be seen how useful the sessions were given the massive groups and poor quality presentations screens etc. Not sure it was a good use of our time and was very labour intensive - 3 of us each hour. More online resources may be the way forward? CH

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Sorry I can't make it this morning! Been busy adapting the draft MRE Resilience workshop for 3rd year UGs for an MLE Embedded session last week which went really well despite it being a snow day! Since had other lecturers contact asking for more info on the session and resources we use so meeting with them next week :) Also been working on the Learning Scientists workshop, MLE Information workshop, and have kick-started the MLE Development Group refresh this week - exciting times ahead! Sarah

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I can't make this morning's meeting, sorry! The maths pilot is still going well and I've just made a new contact in MACE experience so we'll see how that goes. I have also met with Louise Walker from the School of Maths, who is looking at developing a study skills module/element for first year maths students and I'm excited to see what comes out of this!
Adam

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I can't make this mornings meeting as i am performing at the Using websites and recognising bias session - i think that this is a well thought out session (go Anna) but it is usually poorly attended. I think that it needs to be reframed as a session based around using resources and recognising bias/ credibility - this could then cover a range of academic sources that they should be using in their studies. Also i think this ties into the credible journal session (again i think this has low attendance) - could we create a new session that draws on these two sessions and introduces the students to both bias and credibility? it would need a snappier title but i think this could possibly nudge towards awesome and may even sneak up to amazing.

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Teaching Reflection with photography! This is an awesome idea which I came across in another experience-sharing event called "The Psychological Curriculum" - it is being implemented by a Lecturer in Audiology called Sheila Fiedler. First year students are taught reflective practice using photography for 2 hours a week (10 weeks). At the end of the course they have to produce a photo which they believe represents themselves and their journey/what led them to want to become an audiologist.  This helps to break down barriers, create a sense of community amongst the class and prepare students to share their thoughts and experiences through reflective assignments. It also prompts students to consider how their background affects how they interpret an experience, rather than just seeing reflection as something which is applied retrospectively.

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Hi All, I attended the NOWAL wellbeing exchange of experience in Liverpool recently and wanted to share some of the highlights from the discussion. Liverpool University offered mindful colouring for students and displayed some of the best efforts in the Library, they set up a lucky dip by reception where students could leave motivation messages for others to pick up (this was apparently very well used) and they also put on regular "book exhibitions" in the Library foyer including one called "shelf-help" about self help books. I thought that a lot of these things sound like great quick-win strategies we could suggest for the next exam extra period? Edgehill University also made sure they built strong partnerships with the services on campus where students would likely go if they were thinking of dropping out, making sure they were signposted to Library services. Charlotte

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I can't make the meeting today as I'm at AMBS. Been working on some Medium lesson plans since Xmas. This has been OK so far. Can we please use the directory / Outlook calendar better when creating these as there is a lot of duplication. My plans are far from perfect so any feedback is welcome. Cheers - John https://medium.com/p/24ebb779aee0/edit https://medium.com/p/4bd23f7a6f8f/edit

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Sorry I can't make the meeting again - I think we all have so many meetings to organise at the moment with each other it is difficult to get a time which doesn't clash with something else. This clashes with the WP admin meeting I organised. In terms of training I have been delivering a lot of Open sessions and some embedded sessions covering Critical appraisal - as a side note I think quite a lot of students who turn up to the Critical reading workshop are scientists and the workshop is quite geared towards humanities students reading articles rather than studies. Maybe at some point we could review the examples used in the workshop and see if we can encompass some broader examples.

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Sorry all, I'm at WP admin! Been delivering lots of OP workshops lately and feel like attendance is still really good considering it's November - what does everyone else think? I'm also working on the Learning Scientists workshop with the others, bit by bit, which is exciting! :)  -- Kit

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Sorry I cannot make it to the KIT meeting this morning. My update is about when I have been using Menti or padlet and I have been saving the work that the students have been doing and incorporating it into an updated version of the slides that I send following the session. Where I have done this the academic have been quite pleased to receive the slides and add them to Bb as they have evidence of the work that their students are capable of. Sambrino

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Sorry I can't make it! I've been delivering some OTP workshops and maths support, but have also almost finished work on the Manage your time refresh and will be asking around for some help with QAing that shortly :) Adam

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I am busy busy busy delivering and preparing embedded sessions. I did a session for a group of MSc Management students called Academic writing from start to finish which looked at writing an assignment from planning to proofreading. I included material such as RAFT and an editing or proofreading quiz. Miriam and Kathryn were brilliant at helping out at this workshop for 80 students! Thanks both :) Anna

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Sorry I can't make it as well. The international orientation presentation that Charlotte, Kit, Sam, Dave and I worked on went down a treat with the new intake last weekend . John H  https://twitter.com/withnail57/status/1041338172054102016 https://twitter.com/withnail57/status/1041286233333350400

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Working in groups - I bravely (or stupidly) did a face-to-face workshop on group work with MSc Finance students.  I had them think about why group work is important (happily, careers had just made the case before me), do a mini skills audit, before asking them to get up and for the most effective teams of 5, based on their skills audit.  If I did it again I'd have a prize as motivation but it was good fun.  You can see some of their ideas in the picture.  Michael

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Hi - sorry I can't make it. Programme management are looking at the refresh process for workshops and online resources. It would be good to look at which workshops/online resources we prioritise for refresh over this coming academic year. How would we identify these? Anna