Phil Race

(From Copenhagen Airport on way home) Here are the main slides used at my three workshops. As I explained, there was some common ground (the seven factors) but also different things at the different workshops, responding to matters arising from the respective participants. It was good working with you all. Aalborg 2012 (24)

I’m delighted to say that Sally’s award of PhD by Published Works was confirmed yesterday. You might like to email her with congrats by going to her website, www.sally-brown.net  There’s lots of good stuff on her website. I am of course very proud of my wife’s achievement.

It was great to meet up at Newcastle University (my own old Uni) for the inaugural meeting of the North-East Regional Group of National Teaching Fellows. Sally and I (mainly Sally) included a presentation on ‘How to bring about change in Universities’, and the slides are here for anyone interested. Newcastle University: 3rd May (23). Thanks to everyone for organising the day.

Here are the main slides we used, without the pictures and links, in our session this morning. Smarter lectures (40). Here also are the slides from the half-day session on Getting Published from this afternoon. Getting Published (16). Great working with you all.

Here are the main slides I used in my keynote, minus the links and pictures. You were a great audience, thanks. UWE (69). I enjoyed all of your sessions, thanks, particularly the one on feedback and feedforward, and on talking students online through the answers to past exam questions, illustrating how exactly to go about answering them where necessary. There’s excellent practice around at UWE.

Here are the main slides we used in our workshop on ‘Getting Yourself Published’. See you in print. QUB 24th April (33).

Here are the main slides I used in our day together, in a single PowerPoint 2007 file. Plymouth 2012 (71). The slides relating to the ‘statements’ exercise and the thoughts on competence are available elsewhere on the site, e.g. the ‘archived downloads’ page. Great working with you all.

Here are the main slides we used, in a PowerPoint 2007 file. The ‘statements’ exercise and ‘content-free test’ are elsewhere on my website. You’ll have to remember the four-letter word yourselves, of course. A longer version of the ‘ripples’ sequence is in the download immediately beneath this post.  Brunel 17th April (35).

I’ve updated the PowerPoint file which shows the development of the ‘ripples model’ of learning, with some new slides added. Now it should download more easily, directly as a PowerPoint file, without the hassle of zipped folders, as my website software no longer needs these. Ripples model seven factors (14397). This is written up as Chapter 2 of the 2nd (2010) edition of ‘Making Learning Happen’. If you would like to book me to go through this live at your institution, please email me.

I keep playing with a checklist to use before and after a teaching element, and here’s the latest version. I’m now able to put up Word files directly, saving all the messing with zipped folders. Do let me know what you think of this, so I can improve it. I know it’s too long, but I thought it best for colleagues to edit it down. Reflective Checklist 2012 (393)

What key advice is needed by 6th-formers and others preparing to start University? I’ve added a page of brief suggestions to the ‘for students’ part of this website, accessible using the link at the right-hand side. I’m particularly looking for feedback on these suggestions, and (even better) for more ideas to go there.

Here are the main slides I used at my workshops in Leeds and London on 22nd and 23rd February, as a PowerPoint 2007 file in a zipped folder. There are a few slides you didn’t see, as I put a few extra in to both of the sessions. The ‘statements’ exercise is available separately from the ‘archived downnloads’ page of this site. Great working with you, and thanks for the very encouraging feedback. Sector February 2012 (112).

Here are the main slides we used in my session. I took out the pictures and links which would have made the file far too big. The slides are in PowerPoint 2007 in a zipped folder. Great working with you – best of luck in your forthcoming assignments. Northumbria slides (125)
I was very impressed with your draft assignments on helping 6th formers to prepare for University – so you inspired me to have a go to produce a simple one-pager with the same mission, which you can download here: How to do Uni (84). I was also very heartened by some feedback from you which Kay sent on to me – you can see that here too feedback (86).

Here are the main slides (minus pictures and links) which I used, in a PowerPoint file in a zipped folder Manchester slides (91). Here also is the unpublished work-up of Chapter 10 of ‘Making Learning Happen’, which contains the checklist I showed you unpublished chapter with checklist (98). The slide sequence of the ‘ripples’ model is available separately on the ‘main downloads’ page, and the ‘statements exercise’ on the ‘archived downloads’ page of the site. Great working with you today.

Here are the main slides Sally and I used in our presentation on the 17th of February. There are many more ideas on both of our websites about the matters arising from this session, and also those we discussed in our various small-group discussions on the 16th and 17th. Plymouth NSS (87)

Here are the main slides I used in our workshop on 15th February, in a password-protected PowerPoint file in a zipped folder. NTFS slides (84) I look forward to seeing all of you in the winners’ lists in the next year or three. Good luck. Just to remind you that on some of the slides, the emphasis in red is my personal view of the wording of the scheme and what it is likely to mean to reviewers. I look forward to visiting Northumbria again next week, this time working with 140 students on learning.

I now have a new mobile phone (an iPhone which I like a lot), with a new number, so my old number is now extinct. If you need my new number, please email me for it on phil@phil-race.co.uk
I also now have some availability in March should anyone want me, due to our trip to Australia being rearranged due to family circumstances.

Here are the main slides we used Ballymena (87). You were a great group to work with, and I look forward to seeing you again before long.

Great to be in Galway again. Here are the slides which I used in the various sessions I ran on these two days, in PowerPoint 2007 files in zipped folders. Firstly, the lunchtime session on the 7th on ‘Towards Inspiring Teaching’: Inspiring Teaching (138).  Here are the slides I ran in the morning session for PhD students on 8th February. PhD at your fingertips (104). Finally, here are the slides for the two PG Cert sessions. The first session on Tuesday involved participants from the University of Iceland by videolink as well as Galway participants, and the second session on Wednesday was with 16 Galway participants. As always, I did slightly different things with the two groups, so these slides are ‘cumulative’ and in a different order, so look carefully for the slides you didn’t see at your session. Great working with you all, I have really enjoyed my visit to Galway. Smarter Assessment (107).

But which remote has the 'freeze' control on it?

Here are the main slides (lots of them!) which I used in my day with you on assessment. The slides are in a zipped folder in a PowerPoint 2007 file. It was great working with you – keep in touch. Swansea University (114)