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In last night’s #LTHEChat Phil Race (@RacePhil) led us on a reflection of the feedback we’ve received and given. Here are the questions and my answers: https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/788817007659581441 https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788818629404098560 https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788819039263006721 https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/788819507380940800 https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788820192050683910 https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/788822024743481344 https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788822427048484867 https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788823821612617728 https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/788824542361845760 https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788825059842519045 https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/788827056427544576 https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/788829575031554049 https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788830337245806592 https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788830868500602881 https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788831912584437762 All in all https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788832543726526464 The storify has already been published: #LTHEChat 65: Feedback and feed-forward: language and timing.

This Wednesday’s #LTHEChat was the first of this new semester’s joint monthly get togethers with the Higher Education Academy (HEA). The topic was connection for student retention (or student resilience as Vincent Tinto prefers to call “retention” which he regards as an institutionally focused word). As usual there was a lot of useful sharing. Here’s the Storify: Connection for Retention- building effective learning relationships. Comments: My CPD in 2016: Part 1 #HEAChat – Fresh and Crispy - Jun 4, 2017...

Robert Dragan (@robert_dragan) and Dawn Alderson (@dawn_alderson) led a very lively tweet chat yesterday on Assessment and Student Engagement. Despite Twitter itself playing up, colleagues discussed the following six thought provoking questions and you can read the full record that was captured in Storify. Here is the TAGSExplorer visualisation. https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/778670656112070656 https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/778672665867325440 https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/778675169724211201 https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/778677683383263232 https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/778680210598141953 https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/778682731790118912 Assessment is definately on my agenda at the moment, and I’ll need some time to reflect on my own thoughts on this topic....

I attended the first run of FutureLearn MOOC #FLble1 Blended Learning Essentials: Getting Started last year. Because of other commitments, I couldn’t take part in the first run of the second part #FLble2 Blended Learning Essentials: Embedding Practice but it looks like I have another chance in the re-run that starts 3 October. https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/778548535130226688 Highly recommended! If you missed it, the team leaders Diana Laurillard and Neil Morris gave a talk on the Blended Learning Essentials courses on Future Learn at the 2016 Alt Conference....

Renate and I walked to the Swansea Central library today and on our way back we were fortunate enough to see the start of the Swansea 10k run. I hope everyone had a good time.