In this episode, David McInnis chats about his blended-learning approach which combines unique online content with active, performance-oriented activities in seminars, which is his response to the challenge: how should Shakespeare be taught in Australia today?

David McInnis is Associate Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the University of Melbourne. He also won the Barbara Falk Award for Teaching Excellence for this initiative.

Host: Wajeehah Aayeshah

Guest speaker: David McInnis

Editor: Xia Cui

How do you celebrate Ramadan and how has that changed this year? What's your special Ramadan dish? and what's your spiritual practice during this month?

In this episode, This Teaching Life host Wajeehah Aayeshah chats to four colleagues in the Faculty of Arts and find out their answers to these questions.

Host: Wajeehah Aayeshah; Co-host: Xia Cui

Guest speaker: Ali Reza Yunespour, Nadia Aly, Nira Rahman, Yasmeen Hassan

Editor: Xia Cui

Dr. Mitch Goodwin is a media artist, curator and an academic with a research focus on digital aesthetics. In this episode, he shares some effective and easy to apply strategies in using videos to make genuine connections with learners.

Here is the link mentioned in the episode:

Seven ways to improve students' online learning experiences in your subject

Guest speaker: Mitch Goodwin

Host: Xia Cui

Producer and editor: Xia Cui

In this time of isolation, Olivia Meehan thought it might be interesting to consider the art of looking, the practice of seeing and describing, and in the case of podcasts, the serenity of just listening.

In this 3rd episode of her series to explore the Museum From Home programs, she will be taking us to Musée du Louvre, and in particular, Le Printemps, painting by Théodore Rousseau. At the end of the episode is Robyn Archer's reading of Swann's Way, In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust.

Resources and notes:

Musée du Louvre

https://www.louvre.fr/en/homepage

Musée du Louvre Online Tours

https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne

Mona Lisa Focus

https://focus.louvre.fr/en/mona-lisa

The Barbizon School of painters

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199920105/obo-9780199920105-0097.xml

Reading:

Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 translated by Lydia Davis, London: Penguin Classics, 2004, pp. 438-439.

With thanks to Robyn Archer for the reading.

Our guest speaker for this two part episode is Tom Whitford, teaching and learning specialist from the Faculty of Business and Economics. In part 2 of this episode, Tom chats to host Xia about what post-Covid-19 teaching and learning might look like, and how we should prepare ourselves for it.

Host: Xia Cui

Guest speaker: Tom Whitford

Editor and producer: Xia Cui

Our guest speaker for this two part episode is Tom Whitford, teaching and learning specialist from the Faculty of Business and Economics. In part 1, Tom reflects on the process of transitioning to teaching online in his faculty during the lockdown.

In part 2, Tom chats to host Xia about what post-Covid-19 teaching and learning might look like, and how we should prepare ourselves for it.

Host: Xia Cui

Guest speaker: Tom Whitford

Editor and producer: Xia Cui

Dr Angela Daly is a senior lecturer at Strathclyde Law School. She is co-director of the Strathclyde Centre for Internet Law & Policy, and she also directs the fully online, distance learning

LLM/PgDip in Internet Law & Policy/Information Technology & Telecommunications Law.

In this episode she chats with host Wajeehah Aeyeshah about her experience during the lock down, the teaching, the martial arts, and in particular, the topic of data safety.

Host: Wajeehah Aeyeshah

Guest speaker: Angela Daly

Editor and producer: Xia cui

Dr. Antoinette Gagne runs a very successful and popular thesis writing community for her students at the University of Toronto. In this episode, she explains in details how to set up and maintain such communities to keep the students engaged, motivated, and productive.

Host: Megan McIntosh

Guest speaker: Antoinette Gagne

Editor and producer: Xia Cui

Mentorship and guidance are among the most important facets of students' academic journeys. In this two part episode, host Megan McIntosh chats with Lauren Bliss from the University of Melbourne, and Antoinette Gagne from the University of Toronto, to find out their insights and strategies in providing support and mentorship online for students.

Host: Megan McIntosh

Guest speaker: Lauren Bliss (Part 1), Antoinette Gagne (Part 2)

Editor and producer: Xia Cui

This is part 6 of the "checking-in" series in which our host Wajeehah Aayeshah zoomed in with academics from the Faculty of Arts and chatted about how they are adjusting in life and teaching in this fast changing situation.

Josiah Lulham teaches in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He's an actor, an artist, a gamer, and also a PhD student all at the same time. In this episode, he shares his unique working from home experience.

Host: Wajeehah Aayeshah

Guest speaker: Josiah Lulham

Editor and producer: Xia Cui