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John Dermo

@jdermo.bsky.social

Academic Developer, Hebden Bridge and University of Salford. Interests: Authentic and Inclusive Assessment and Feedback, Professional Development and Recognition, Quality Enhancement.

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Prof Iwi Ugiagbe-Green (ManMet) reminding us of bel hooks and possibilities in the day 2 keynote at Salford L&T Festival #FLT25

02.09.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Iwi Ugiagbe-Green reflecting on the importance of Ubuntu philosophy in education in a brilliant keynote at Salford Festival of L&T #FLT25

02.09.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prof Carol Evans reflecting on "Savvy feedback seekers" at Salford L&T Festival #FLT25

02.09.2025 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome to Day 2 of the University of Salford Learning and Teaching Festival #FLT25

02.09.2025 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nicky Morgan and Matt Jones discuss the pedagogical value of Escape Rooms at the Salford L&T Festival #FLT25

01.09.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tracy Dixon inspiring us about programme based assessment with Foundation Year students at Salford L&T Festival #FLT25

01.09.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Liminal spaces and students feeling "pleasantly lost", learning through enquiry and curiosity. Prof Susan Orr keynote Salford Festival of Learning and Teaching #FLT25

01.09.2025 09:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prof Susan Orr keynote reminding us that university Education is not "delivery", but more active, collaborative and enquiry-based #FLT

01.09.2025 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keynote advocating block Teaching - Prof Susan Orr at Salford L&T Festival ##FLT25

01.09.2025 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prof Susan Orr kicks off Salford Festival of Learning and Teaching asking us to reflect on curiosity and creativity #FLT25

01.09.2025 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jess Power welcoming delegates to Uni of Salford Learning and Teaching Festival #FlT25

01.09.2025 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#SedaCurriculumDevelopmentNetwork SEDA curriculum development event, University of Salford, Maria Kutar Salford Business School

01.07.2025 09:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Embedding Education for Sustainable Development into Salford's PGCAP programme #GoGreenSalford

18.03.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! And great to see that, thanks to you and Nicole, #LTHEchat was the #7 trending topic in the world!

05.03.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you @LTHEchat 😊 πŸ™

05.03.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you #LTHEchat 😊

05.03.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much @jonatanberhane.bsky.social and @njblythe18.bsky.social for a brilliant ##LTHEChat!

05.03.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A6 podcasts can contribute to inclusivity as part of a varied assessment diet, as well as their potential for authenticity. I do have concerns about equal access to technology, though, with digital poverty and unequal cultural capital across a diverse student cohort? #LTHEchat

05.03.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A5. I'm wondering whether the huge popularity of podasts today might encourage peer review, with students wanting to listen to (and evaluate) each other's work, and improve their assessment literacy in so doing? #LTHEchat

05.03.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A4. So long as we can ensure fair access to the technology, podcasting may help to give a voice to underrepresented groups who might be disadvantaged by traditional modes of assessment #LTHEchat

05.03.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A3. Podcasting could be a good way of encouraging students to work collaboratively, hopefully overcoming some of the barriers in groupwork #LTHEchat

05.03.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A3. By using authentic assessment tasks i.e tasks which are meaningful and relevant to the learners, to their academic and professional identity as well as to the workplace. #LTHEchat

05.03.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A2 an institutional challenge is sustainable access to podcast technology and the training to use it #LTHEchat

05.03.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A2. One challenge will be communicating that students are being assessed on learning outcomes, not their podcast production skills. #LTHEchat

05.03.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A1 how did NotebookLM cope with the brief? From my limited experience with NLM, I found it superficially very appealing, but it did come up with a fair amount of misunderstanding and nonsense in the content. Also, the format for all its "podcasts" is very formulaic, so the novelty soon wears off.

05.03.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A1: I have not tried using podcasts for assessment (not yet at least!) However we do offer an audio/video as an alternative format to the written portfolio, with limited uptake so far. I suspect one barrier is just that people take time to get used to alternative formats?#LTHEchat

05.03.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@jessnaphodg.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky. Enjoy your time here 😁

04.03.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A6 no one-size-fits-all approach to feedback can be truly authentic. Also, authentic feedback is more likely to be inclusive feedback (and vice versa)
#LTHEChat

08.01.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A6 Authentic feedback, as with authentic assessment, ought to be "authentic for me, us and them" ie meaningful and relevant to the individual student, as well as to their communities, as well as the outside world. #LTHEChat

08.01.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Designing Effective Feedback Processes in Higher Education | A Learnin Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on student achievement, yet it is difficult to implement productively within the constraints of a mass higher

A5 my go-to has to be Winstone and Carless (2019)
#LTHEChat

08.01.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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