Session/artefact to be observed/reviewed: 3D Scan & Render / Polycam & Blender Size of student group: 10–15 Observer: Marysia Tańska Observee: Greg Orrom Swan Part One Observee to complete in brief and send to observer prior to the observation or review: What is the context of this session/artefact within the curriculum? — This session is a part of a […]
Session/artefact to be observed/reviewed: Creative Portfolio WorkshopSize of student group: 10–25Observer: Linda AloysiusObservee: Greg Orrom Swan Part One Observee to complete in brief and send to observer prior to the observation or review: What is the context of this session/artefact within the curriculum? How long have you been working with this group and in what capacity? What are the […]
Assessing learning and exchanging feedback Contextual Background Within my teaching context three main challenges I have within summative assessment on MA User Experience Design, LCC, are outlined below: Due to the scope of this text, I will focus on the first point. I feel an emotionally and psychologically challenged by marking summative assessments without really being […]
Planning and teaching for effective learning Contextual Background The challenge I am wishing to explore is how to massively reduce over-delivery and over-explaining transmissive teaching in my Creative Portfolio Workshop (prep sheet and exhaustive slides in addendum). I intentionally hope to increase student engagement and participation through active learning rather than passive listening in lecture […]
Knowing and responding to your students’ diverse needs Contextual Background I teach repeated lessons across 22 MA + BA courses in the SDT at LCF. For example, in autumn 23/24 I was teaching the same 3hr session 2/day, once a week, for 5 weeks. In each session the cohort is different: they have varied abilities, experience, […]
After reading Allan Davies’ (2012) paper, I am reflecting on assessment and assessment criteria. I must admit that (except for the first couple of times I marked student work) I’ve always quite enjoyed what the ambiguity of assessment criteria affords — how the written assessment of submitted work varies slightly between tutors as perceptual opinions […]
In my 20min microteach session, I potentially over-planned — but I wanted to take the opportunity to teach something totally new. Perhaps because of boredom in my everyday teaching, as Linda and I discussed in a tutorial, but also because I wished to utilise the brief where it says ‘teach something new or different’. I […]
NB — this post I wrote immediately after the first workshop day in early January 2024 and haven’t edited it, except adding footnotes and a reference, and thus its validity for the submission is debatable. It does however give a diary-like insight to my thoughts at the time. ——— Reflections on the first day of […]
In this post I will summarise and reflect on Polly Savage’s 2022 paper ‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anti-Colonial Solidarity. The paper by Savage (2022) discusses the experiences and resulting influences of Mozambican art and design students who studied across the Soviet Union during the Cold War […]
I am an artist and designer, I teach at LCF and LCC, my title is Lecturer in Creative Communication. I teach mostly communication and graphic design, moving image, experiential media, and at LCC I teach on the User Experience design Masters and BA courses. I hope the PgCert will allow me to feel a bit […]