Happy New Year! We hope you had a relaxing and recuperative Christmas break…

We are already in the thick of term, but whether you are emerging from piles of marking, working with final year students on their dissertations and projects, planning lectures, or all of these and more all at once, we hope you might find time to take a break and come along to one of our Learning and Teach Forum workshops this term.

We kick off with ‘the Workshop’ workshop on Friday 29 January, 12:45-2:15pm in Law and Managment LMB/023, where Celine Kingman (TFTV) and Jenny Gibbons (Law) ask what we mean by ‘workshopping an idea’ or ‘to do a workshop’?

On Monday 8 February, 12:30-2:00pm, you can hear from Zoe Handley (Education) and Richard Walker (Head of E-Learning, ASO) discuss the potential of e-exams in their workshop, ‘Engaging learners with computer-based testing‘, in Heslington Hall HG/21.

Sara Perry (Archaeology) and Tom Smith (IT Support) return to talk about technology in practice, in ‘Creativity in the connected classroom‘, covering everything from social media and networking to Google apps, tools and Awesome Tables. How awesome, you ask? Find out on Monday 22 February, 12:30-2:00pm, also in Heslington Hall HG/21.

The last workshop of the term, on Tuesday 15 March, 12:30-2:00pm, looks at the role of peer-review and assessment, led by  Ollie Jones (TFTV). More details can be found at ‘Deep learning or easy marks? A question of peer assessment.’

For all these workshops, you can sign up via this booking form or by emailing learning-and-teaching-forum@york.ac.uk

Don’t forget that in June we will hold our Annual Learning and Teaching Conference – Value added graduates: enabling our students to be successful – on Tuesday 7 June. The deadlines for applications to contribute and present are coming up: Wednesday 20 January for workshops, and Wednesday 6 April for posters.

And lastly, if you have ideas for any workshops for 2016/17 you think you would like to see, or perhaps run yourself, we are always looking for ideas and volunteers – drop us a line at learning-and-teaching-forum@york.ac.uk.

Have a great term!