Author Archives: Sue Beckingham

About Sue Beckingham

A National Teaching Fellow, Educational Developer and Principal Lecturer in Computing with a research interest in the use of social media in higher education.

Festive greetings, thankyous, and a welcome to the incoming #LTHEchat organising team

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our current organising team. Thank you Suzanne Faulkner for being an excellent mentor and to Danielle Hinton and Sandra Huskinson for all your hard work behind the scenes. You have all … Continue reading

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Special #altc edition of #LTHEchat – Crisis and Care 8pm on 24 August 2020

#LTHEchat is partnering once again with #altc for a Special Chat as part of the Summer Summit of the Association for Learning Technology which can be joined at 8pm on Monday 24 August 2020.  ALT’s Summer Summit 2020 – Learning … Continue reading

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#LTHEchat 174: Do Games Technologies Have a Place in Higher Education pedagogy? with guest host Dr Chris Headleand @ChrisHeadleand

Intro: The technologies behind video games have been applied to a range of sectors. The playful nature of games combined with their intractability and aesthetic quality make them highly engaging. As such, serious games, and general gamification of content and … Continue reading

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Special #altc edition of #LTHEchat – 28 August 2019 8pm

#LTHEchat is partnering once again with #altc for a special edition chat as part of the Annual Conference of the Association for Learning Technology  This year we are opening up the #altc #LTHEchat conversation to include questions from Co-Chairs, presenters … Continue reading

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#LTHEchat 134 – Oh yes! #BYOD4L is back co-hosting our first #LTHEchat of 2019 with @debbaff and @SFaulknerPandO

We are off to a flying start this year with the first tweetchat of the year run as a joint tweetchat with the folks at #BYOD4L Bring your own device for learning. #BYOD4L is a free open online 5 day … Continue reading

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A Summer Special #LTHEchat led by Sarah Honeychurch @NomadWarMachine on ‘Lurkers’ – Wednesday 25th July 8pm

What is lurking? Do you lurk? If so: when do you lurk, and what reasons do you have for doing so? Is lurking a legitimate strategy to cope with the abundance of content and conversations in the modern world, or … Continue reading

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Enjoy the summer break! Look forward to more co-learning come September #LTHEchat

Dear #LTHEchat friends It’s hard to believe another academic year has come to a close. Over 2017/18 we have had a rich collection of #LTHEchats and thank all of our guests who have led on a wonderful collections of topics … Continue reading

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#LTHEchat 109 “Team Based Learning” with Beck McCarter @beckmccarter and Simon Tweddle @simontweddell

The next #LTHEchat will take place on Wednesday 11th April 8-9pm (BST). This week’s topic is Team Based Learning (TBL) and will be led by Beck McCarter and Simon Tweddle. Dr Simon Tweddell is a Senior Lecturer at the University … Continue reading

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LTHEchat no. 89 – Staff and student “digital” development with @digisim Simon Thomson

Welcome back after the Summer! Our first #LTHEchat of the new academic year takes place on Wednesday 13th September at 8pm BST and is led by Simon Thomson (@digisim) and will look at staff and student digital development. Simon asks: … Continue reading

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An ‘extra #LTHEchat’ with #altc trustees James Clay and Sheila MacNeill plus guest Dr Bonnie Stewart

LTHEchat is delighted to be invited by Maren Deepwell, CEO of the Association of Learning Technology to host an ‘extra chat’ to coincide with #altc. Many of our #LTHEchat community will be familiar with this wonderful organisation and the annual … Continue reading

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