Successful teaching techniques: does size matter?

Thursday 23rd June 2005
Leeds Metropolitan University Headingley Campus

 

A day of presentations, workshops and opportunities to exchange experiences and good ideas for those interested in or involved with delivering information skills teaching. The programme draws upon the experience of practitioners in HE and other professionals.

 

The day will look at ways of dealing with large groups in the context of information skills teaching. The programme was devised in response to feedback from previous seminars and there will be theoretical as well as practical sessions. The sixth in a series of Yorkshire Universities’ seminars, the day has again a simple aim for the information skills practitioners taking part:to help us to do it better!

 

This will be achieved by:

 

  • encouraging reflective practice

  • sharing ideas

  • providing a networking opportunity

 

 

09.30-10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00-10.05 Welcome and Introduction

David Pennie, (Chair of the Yorkshire Universities Information Skills Group) Information Skills Training Co-ordinator, University of Hull

10.05-10.50 Teaching large groups

Duncan Jackson, Education Development Adviser, University of Sheffield

10.50-11.35 Voice projection

Jo Donnelly, Speech and Language Therapist, Leeds General Infirmary

11.35-12.00 Break
12.00-13.00 Engaging your audience - using technology for interactive learning: including

· e-voting

Helen Howard, Information Literacy Team Leader, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

· Hot Potatoes quizzes within Powerpoint

Lyn Parker, Academic Services Development Librarian, University of Sheffield

13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Cephalonia and beyond: innovative library induction the Cardiff way, and its implementation at LeedsMet.

Nigel Morgan, Information Specialist, Cardiff University

Wendy Luker, Campus Library Manager / Academic Support Manager, Leeds Metropolitan University

14.45-15.30 Case studies: Break-out discussion groups
15.30-16.00 Plenary: feedback and refreshments
16.00 Close