Month: May 2010

  • Learning

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    Here’s a great blog entry about learning for educators and lurners alike: Donald Clark Plan B: 10 techniques to massively increase retention There’s a lot of really good stuff in there, hopefully stuff we’re already trying to do in Swansea. Note number 9: mobile technology. The author talks about drip feeding assessment via those mobile…

  • Anatomy: the lumbosacral plexus and the lower limb

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    On Monday we started looking at the structure of the hip, the muscles there and the nerves involved in motor and sensory innervation. In my station we talked about the lumbosacral plexus. Lots of nerves! A nerve plexus is merely a lot of separate nerves (it’s probably best to think of long, individual nerve cells)…

  • Why I don’t listen to music on the bike

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    Why I don’t listen to music on the bike, originally uploaded by samwebster. Fast music kicks in (in this case, Gorillaz’ Stylo) & you end up popping 500watts on an easy pootle. Sheesh.

  • Long run

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    It’s 92 days since I broke my foot and today I ran my first long run since then. Only 75 minutes and 500m shy of 10 miles hardly seems a long run, but to my legs it felt long. This is crucial as the Long Steady Run (or LSD) has profound effects on my run…

  • Higher Education Academy mag & Turning Point clickers

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    I’ve been a proponent of using interactive feedback technology in lectures (which means I can ask questions in my lecture, students can answer using a remote control with 10 or so buttons on it and we can all see how well we’re doing) for some time. As such I’ve been occasionally pulled out to demonstrate…