The theme of this year’s mental health awareness week is kindness. How can we be kinder to ourselves, our failures, and those of others? In keeping with this year’s mental health awareness week’s overall message, I call on us … Continue reading...
Category: Student Voice
Writing a Dissertation Without the Library: A Guide
It’s getting to that time of year where students usually inhabit the library every day, furiously typing away at their dissertations. But how do you go about writing your diss when there’s no library to go to? Here’s a quick … Continue reading...
Calm and Concentration: Framing Mindfulness as a study skill as well as a wellbeing practice.
Amid COVID-19, many of my peers and I were forced to come to terms with the fact that we would not see cherished friends, colleagues, and tutors for an indefinite period. I was struggling to find the words and internal … Continue reading...
Out of the ordinary: Tips to create authentic online teaching and learning
“The value of authentic activity is not constrained to learning in real-life locations and practice, but that the benefits of authentic activity can be realized through careful design of Web-based learning environments.” – Lombardi
Well, I can safely say … Continue reading...
Active Learning Infographic ‘Retro’ spective
Having spent many hours in quarantine fighting enemies in online games, I sat down at my computer last Wednesday to do battle with my greatest nemesis – Adobe graphic design programs. A long time later, I emerged from my room, … Continue reading...
Teaching Beyond the Firewall
Bristol is fortunate enough to have a large population of international students, many of whom come from mainland China. Given the new form of online teaching, this presents some significant challenges in terms of the firewall. Platforms such as Skype, … Continue reading...
Student Reflections on the Bristol Wellbeing Conference
The public outreach conference was conceived in late December 2019 and was envisioned as the launch for an annual series of conferences celebrating Wellbeing research and practice across Bristol. Our (BILT, SU Wellbeing Network and Education Network) hope was that … Continue reading...
The Big Scary Word Beginning with C (not that one)
This might not seem like a time of opportunity. Everything is cancelled or postponed, and it seems like our worlds are shrinking (both metaphorically, and physically – something I’m acutely aware of as I’m currently working out of my dad’s … Continue reading...
Students and Remote Studying: Resources, Guidance and Advice
The Study Skills team have created this online course for students on ‘Learning Independently’. There are lots of resources available on the Study Skills site for you to use.
Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching’s Facebook and Instagram page … Continue reading...
Working from Home: A day in the life of a final year student.
Let me start by being frank, sustaining motivation to complete University assignments amid a pandemic is obviously a trying situation. It is only human to initially feel unsettled, stressed, and confused in this situation. These feelings do not make you … Continue reading...