Tag: rhetoric

  • LETR conference: reflections

    I said in my first conference post that I was hoping for the conference to help me understand LETR’s continuing significance, if any.   I left with more questions in my mind about LETR’s purpose, but also a sense that what we co-authors made of it was at least in parts enduring beyond the five-year…

  • Research skills: a failure of imagination

    Thanks to Kristoffer Greaves for pointing me in the direction of the recent workshop on Teaching Research Skills to Law Students, summarised in Jenni Carr’s HEA Social Science blog.  I’m in Canberra now, so couldn’t make the workshop, but Rosemary Auchmuty, who authored the posting, has done a good job in pulling together the slides…

  • Tasks and conversations

    Good post over on the Best Practices blog, Before you ban – empirical data on student laptop use, blogged by Kevin Ramakrishna, from Prof Kim Novak Morse’s doctoral dissertation (how refreshing to see someone’s area of expertise described as ‘legal writing’).  The laptop use is of course in-class (I guess what we’d call, in the…

  • Webcasts: pace & rhythm

    Been thinking about this, since we're engaged in a project that incorporates them at Northumbria Law School.  Talking to staff today it was borne in on me yet again how much lectures are culturally more sophisticated events than we tend to think.  

  • JISC Learning & Teaching Experts meeting, Birmingham

    Great meet-up, as always.  Dizzying number of fascinating projects.  The day's slides and resources available here.  Too fast & furious to live blog, too busy taking it all in and applying to my own practice.  Most were not cutting-edge applications, but they were imaginative, carefully-planned implementations of technology that can inspire you to adapt and…

  • What will enhance legal education in Scotland?

    Was live-blogging Enhancing Legal Education in Scotland, a legal ed conference hosted by UKCLE last week — kudos to Julian Webb and his team for organising it, for it's difficult to bring together the disparate elements of Scots legal education — but my own afternoon session and then many other thoughts intervened, so I've delayed…