on A Quick Way To Jazz Up Presentations With Word Clouds Here’s a quick way to jazz up presentations and to offer a talking point. It’s to generate a word cloud for an appropriate site, which you can…
on 1000 Twitter Impressions Per Day In 2016 – Use These Twitter Strategies To Get Your Tweets Noticed Having an active and engaged Twitter audience is of increasing importance to academics looking to market themselves. As an academic whose work…
on How Can We Improve Industrial Sandwich Year Placements For Computing Students? The Higher Education Academy project, Improving Industrial Sandwich Year Placements For Computing Students, is one of the most rewarding ones…
on Creating Vibrant and Fresh Image Styles With ChatGPT And Dall-E 3 In a previous post, I showed you the Neon Motion Blur Photography image style, with unique features as it had been created by ChatGPT. But…
on Do You Recognise That Exam Taker? Exploring The Changing World Of Examinations And The Students Who Are Using Contract Cheating Services To Find People To Take Their Exam For Them Video This post contains a video version of a talk on exam cheating from the CSpace Conference at Birmingham City University. You can see the slides…
on Introverts In Higher Education Teaching Is it a good thing to be an introvert when working as a teacher or professor in higher education? It’s quite a common question, particularly…
on Why The Computing Discipline Cares About Sandwich Year Placements Over the past year, I’ve been involved with the biggest research project I’ve participating in since completing my PhD. I say “involved”, as…
on Plagiarism, So What? Or How To Interest Students In Academic Integrity In May 2018 I made a return visit to Podgorica, Montenegro, to join a Council of Europe debate on plagiarism aimed at a student audience. I…
on International Center For Academic Integrity Conference 2020 My trip to Portland Oregon in March 2020 to the International Center for Academic Integrity Annual Conference may turn out to be my only…
on Attributing Contract Cheating Through The Turnitin Text Matching Service Birmingham City University holds a research conference, Rescon, in December of each year, providing short accessible shorts from staff and PhD…