Each month we will introduce a PLA member through 5 photos telling their Playful Learning journey. This month, we introduce you to… Mathias Poulsen: After years of futile search for a meaningful job title, Mathias decided to embrace his inner activist, labelling himself as a play activist (making up titles was a clear advantage of …
Hello Playful Pals – and welcome to your July round-up. On Friday 26th July we held our first #PLA online event ‘Playful Approaches to Remote Teaching and Working’. One of the playful ideas shared, was to ask students to share their interests or living arrangements through an emoji challenge. We tested this out in the session, …
Each month we will introduce a PLA member through 5 photos telling their Playful Learning journey. This month, we introduce you to… Rachelle O’Brien: A very serious Educational Developer at the University of Liverpool. That’s not quite true, I’m somewhat serious, but mostly not. I’m also trying to get my colleagues to refer to me …
Summary by Katie Piatt and Helen Sykes Last week saw our first online event focussing on Playful approaches to Remote Teaching and Working – Online Event. We set it up as a ‘drop in when you want’ day, but we had a steady 18-22 participants throughout the day. The first session, hosted by Katie Piatt, …
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Let’s Get Together! Coming up in June is our first #PLA online event ‘Playful Approaches to Remote Teaching and Working’ event. The event will be held using Blackboard Collaborate on Friday June 26th, with one room open for the day for you to drop in and out as you wish. Prepare to share your failures …
Each month we will introduce a PLA member through 5 photos telling their Playful Learning journey. This month, we introduce you to… Alex Moseley in his own words: Co-chair of the PLA (and one of the Founding 8, which sounds a bit Lord of the Rings). He pretends to have a serious job as Head of …
An online PLA event focussed on ‘Playful approaches to Remote Teaching and Working’ will be held on Friday June 26th. This will be a day-long online event where you can dip in and out of sessions as you wish. Rather than presentations, there will be facilitated sessions on topics where you can bring along your own …
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Your April Playful Challenge was to create and share a photos of your ‘Working at Home’ Assistants – and here are some of the results! For your May challenge, there will be a weekly task posted each Wednesday on Twitter alternated by your co-chairs Katie and Alex. Follow the hashtag to play. Our May Featured member is …
Each month we will introduce a PLA member through 5 photos telling their Playful Learning journey. This month, we introduce you to… Alison James: Professor Emerita, University of Winchester. Researching the use of play in higher education, particularly in relation to the teaching of management concepts and theories. As a child I lived almost permanently in another …
We all need an extra dose of playfulness at the moment – welcome to your April round-up, here to encourage a playful attitude for your new daily lives. First up, the monthly member profile: Introducing James Charnock, everybody’s favourite conference organiser/singer/procrastinator [Editor: seriously – I had to chase this man a lot!] Playful Challenge Time!In …
