Aberystwyth University Blogging

Welcome to the Aberystwyth University Blogging Service.
If you wish to start a blog, please send an email to blogging@aber.ac.uk to discuss your requirements and we’ll advise you on how to get started. You can also view information about setting up a blog on the Web Services pages.

Latest posts from across the AU blogging network

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 10/8/2020

    • As lecturer in learning and teaching responsible for the PGCTHE, I keep an eye out for new resources to help our staff teach effectively online. This includes externally-provided webinars, toolkits, publications and other resources. Because active learning is high on our university agenda, I’m particularly keen to share guidance for moving active learning online. ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 3/8/2020

    • As lecturer in learning and teaching responsible for the PGCTHE, I keep an eye out for new resources to help our staff teach effectively online. This includes externally-provided webinars, toolkits, publications and other resources. Because active learning is high on our university agenda, I’m particularly keen to share guidance for moving active learning online. Below I’ve ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 28/7/2020

    • As lecturer in learning and teaching responsible for the PGCTHE, I keep an eye out for new resources to help our staff teach effectively online. This includes externally-provided webinars, toolkits, publications and other resources. Because active learning is high on our university agenda, I’m particularly keen to share guidance for moving active learning online. Below I’ve ...more

  • Conference Registration

    • Registration for the eighth annual Learning and Teaching conference is open. This year’s Learning and Teaching conference has the theme Enhancing the Curriculum: Inspire Learning and Invigorate Teaching! and will be taking place online between Monday 7th and Wednesday 9th September 2020. You can register for the conference by filling in this online form. This year, we’ve got an exciting ...more

  • Benjamin Geen: murderous medic or miscarriage of justice?

    • Sam Poyser explores the case of Benjamin Green and the role of statistics in 'medico-miscarriages of justice' On Tuesday 30th June 2020, Mick Geen tweeted: ‘7 years of waiting – Is this finally going to be the week we hear good news for our son Ben? …17 life sentences for crimes that did not occur’. By ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Mehefin 2020

  • OA Repository Newsletter – June 2020

  • WELCOME

    • Welcome to the blog of the Department of Law and Criminology at Aberystwyth University, Wales’ first law school and one of the oldest in the United Kingdom. This is a relatively informal space for members of the Department’s academic staff to post brief articles on law and criminology. From time to time we will include ...more

  • Changes to the Blackboard Required Minimum Presence (RMP)

    • We have updated the RMP to respond to the Covid-19 situation. The new RMP contains items that will help support students with their online learning. It has been developed by the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Group (LTEU) with significant input from sub-groups of the Learning and Teaching Scenario Planning Group (LTSPG). What’s New? All new or altered ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 15/7/2020

    • As lecturer in learning and teaching responsible for the PGCTHE, I keep an eye out for new resources to help our staff teach effectively online. This includes externally-provided webinars, toolkits, publications and other resources. Because active learning is high on our university agenda, I’m particularly keen to share guidance for moving active learning online. Below I’ve ...more

  • Parent-child modules

    • Now that the 2020-21 modules are available to staff, we can link them together at the module co-ordinator’s request. This process is known as parent-childing. Linking modules together is an effective way of dealing with separate modules with the same content so you don’t have to upload materials to two or more different modules. This process ...more

  • 2020/2021 Modules now available

    • Modules for the academic year 2020/2021 are now available for staff teaching on modules. You may have noticed that a new tab has appeared on the top menu of your Blackboard screen: If you’re enrolled as a staff member on the module in Astra then you should be able to view your modules for next academic year. ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 7/7/2020

    • As lecturer in learning and teaching responsible for the PGCTHE, I keep an eye out for new resources to help our staff teach effectively online. This includes externally-provided webinars, toolkits, publications and other resources. Because active learning is high on our university agenda, I’m particularly keen to share guidance for moving active learning online. Below I’ve ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup 30/6/2020

    • As lecturer in learning and teaching responsible for the PGCTHE, I keep an eye out for new resources to help our staff teach effectively online. This includes externally-provided webinars, toolkits, publications and other resources. Because active learning is high on our university agenda, I’m particularly keen to share guidance for moving active learning online. Below I’ve ...more

  • The People of Erasmus+

    • Since 2014, over 200,000 people in the UK have benefitted from the Erasmus+ programme. To celebrate this achievement, Erasmus+ are hosting a photo competition for former and current participants in the programme. You can submit your selfies, along with a brief statement about what the Erasmus+ programme means to you, via this website. Photo by Tom ...more

  • Rewind

    • In case you were wondering what students do during lockdown abroad... http://youtu.be/bqRm9trOTZw Marta Rutkowska is an Aberystwyth University student studying Film and Television Studies with Spanish. She was participating in an Erasmus programme placement at the Universidad San Jorge, in Zaragoza, Spain when COVID-19 forced the country into lockdown in March 2020. While most of our ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Mai 2020

  • OA Repository Newsletter – May 2020

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Ebrill 2020

  • OA Repository Newsletter – April 2020

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Mawrth 2020

  • OA Repository Newsletter - March 2020

  • Erasmus is not one year in your life but your life in one year!

    • Hello! My name is Kasia, I am a Polish girl who graduated from Aberystwyth University and decided to do an internship in Spain as a part of the Erasmus+ program! After studying Media and Communication I choose to do a Sales and PR internship with Happy Erasmus Bilbao; a student association which organizes events and ...more

  • My koselig little Volda

    • Hello, I’m Valentina, an Italian girl in her 20s who, four months ago, left Aberystwyth with two stuffed bags full of too many clothes, lots of excitement and a bit of fear to embark on a new life adventure. Actually, my journey started many weeks before that. It began when, reading through the possible destinations ...more

  • My Exchange to Aber

    • Hi! I’m Eleanor. I’m on an exchange here at Aberystwyth University for two semesters. I’m from Canada; my home university is Dalhousie University, in Halifax. Dalhousie University is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. It has over 18 000 students, although they’re spread over several campuses, so it doesn’t feel that big. It’s well-regarded for ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter - February 2020

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Chwefror 2020