Phil Race

Sally was awarded an Honorary D.Litt by Kingston University yesterday. The award was made at a splendid graduation ceremony on May 11th in the Royal Festival Hall. Lesley-Jane Eales-Reynolds (PVC at Kingston) gave a moving and heartfelt tribute to Sally and her work to the packed RFH, and Sally replied warmly and with fun and passion for 5 minutes to the assembled graduates, staff and parents and guests. Sitting in one of the Hall’s boxes, I felt very proud of Sally, and moved by the tribute paid by Lesley.

Too cold for gardening, and Sally’s off to Chelmsford, so I’ve been doing a spot of website maintenance, and re-done my workshop prospectus for the next year or so. I’ve trimmed down my offerings to focus on the things I like doing best. Workshops Prospectus 2015-16 (870 downloads) .

Well done, enthusiastic group of UWE colleagues for taking part in quite a strenuous day, and making excellent progress towards putting together applications for HEA Fellowships across all the levels. I wish you well in rounding off your applications, and look forward to hearing that they’ve been successful. Don’t leave it for long now, or you’ll lose bits of the thinking you did today.

Sally and I very much enjoyed this year’s ANTF Symposium in the MacDonald Burlington Hotel in Birmingham. Sponsors of the event were Ede and Ravenscroft (who took photos of many of us) and Play-doh (who provided material to help us concentrate during the sessions). It was great to meet up with ANTFs from all over, and in particular with our friends Simon Thomson and Ruth Pickford from Leeds Beckett University, pictured with us here.

Great working with you today. Here are the main slides and resources I mentioned. Thanks for joining in so well. East Kent slides (654 downloads)    Booklet about tutorials (631 downloads)    small groups handout from Toolkit (996 downloads)

Great to be back at Derby after several years. Thanks to so many of you turning up to be with me. Here are the main slides I used (do let me know if I missed anything useful out), minus as always the video clips and pictures. New link now at Derby-Assessment-and-Feedback-2015-w.pptx (367 downloads)   As I’m sure you could tell, I’d have loved a whole day at Derby, but hope that I touched on sufficient useful ideas to keep you going. I believe I have now conquered Windows 8 on my new laptop, but not yet microphones and walking about. (As ever, whenever a computer does something really silly, it can be tracked straight back to its user!).

Here are the main slides I used in our day together Newcastle College Masterclass (661 downloads) . You were a great group to work with, and it was very clear you are really keen that your students succeed. The file was so big I could not get all the slides in the one presentation, so I’m adding those on the literacies here  literaciespr3.pptx (417 downloads)

The National Union of Students has now produced three such tools, on ‘Assessment and Feedback’, ‘Organisation and Management’ and ‘Learning Resources’, all strongly related to aspects of the student experience as gathered annually in the UK in the National Student Survey. These tools provide excellent food for thought and discussion in universities, and can be downloaded from the NUS website, or indeed direct from here: Assessment and feedback (899 downloads) , Organisation and management (823 downloads) , Learning resources (862 downloads) .

Here are the main slides I used today. Thanks for all the Tweets. You were a great group and I hope to see you again before long. Sadly, trains from the South West are awry, and my Edinburgh train is turning round at Birmingham, but I still hope to get home tonight!   Enhancement at Bridgwater (699 downloads)

Here are the main slides I dipped in and out of today, not in the same order we used of course. Swansea slides (743 downloads) . You were a lovely group to work with, and thanks for all the Tweets too. PS: oops, I forgot to include these slides something further (661 downloads) .