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Cooking with Science: 50 shades of textures
2019 Festival of Creative Learning: Cooking with Science: 50 shades of textures by Konstantinos Bantounos What a week it was! Raising eyebrows by running around campus with hand blenders and random kitchen stuff. I think I made almost 10 kg of ice cream in total (among other things). But thankfully I had help with my …
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Bringing an Interactive Physical Workshop into a Synchronous Digital Space
Find Your Startup Idea Workshop: Blackboard Collaborate, 2019 Festival of Creative Learning By Robert Pembleton, Enterprise Officer at Edinburgh Innovations My job is endlessly rewarding. I have the privilege of working with University students who are looking to become entrepreneurs, often bringing to the table some really exciting, innovative, and delightfully preposterous ideas. Sometimes, however, …
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I’m Not Racist But…
by John Moriarty, originally published here . 2019 Festival of Creative Learning, I’m not racist, but…: Challenging prejudice and unconscious bias Maybe you cringed a little at the title. Maybe you thought, ‘Oh boy, there’s no good way to follow that.’ Perhaps you finished it off yourself somehow. My thought was something along the lines …
Thinking Outside the Tutorial [and the PALs room]
2019 Festival of Creative Learning, Engaging the Disengaged: Creative Facilitation in the Tutorial by Anita Lekova The idea for this event conceived on a blustery Scottish evening under the dim lights in the DHT underground cafe. The idea was simple: to have a space for peer leaders and tutors to connect over the material they …
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