Virna Rossi
virnarossi.bsky.social
Virna Rossi
@virnarossi.bsky.social
Ass. Prof/ NTF/ PFHEA /PGCert Leader.
My posts. Love my kids and avocados. Author of 'Inclusive Learning Design in Higher Education - A Practical Guide' (Routledge), currently writing a book on #PGCert (Routledge).
Interested in all things #SoTL #EduSky
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🎙️Join @virnarossi.bsky.social in a panel + reflection on rethinking tasks, briefs, and feedback to make assessment more meaningful.
🗓️Monday, July 7
1:00–2:00 PM GMT
📝Register for MYFest25: bit.ly/MYFest25regi...
Fee Waiver: email us on unboundeq@gmail.com
#HigherEd #Teaching #Assessment #MYFEST25
MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025
Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.
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July 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Great stuff in here including TEMPLATES!!!!!!! Thanks @mrrablin.bsky.social

www.edutopia.org/article/15-f...
15 Formative Assessment Hacks to Boost Students’ Learning
Common formative assessment techniques can work a little better with these simple tweaks.
www.edutopia.org
June 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Q3 What examples have you seen of music being used effectively to support or enhance teaching and learning?

Reply with A3 #LTHEChat and your response
May 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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It's not too late to book a place at the #ANTF2025 Symposium taking place in beautiful Hereford!

Take a look at the delegate pack for information on travel and accommodation ntf-association.com/wp-content/u...
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May 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. #Arts www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts
The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.
www.campaignforthearts.org
May 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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#LoveLD - love tonight's chat: #LTHEchat 322: Postplagiarism: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Artificial Intelligence lthechat.com/2025/03/10/l...
#LTHEchat 322: Postplagiarism: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
Led by Prof. Sarah Elaine Eaton @saraheaton.bsky.social In higher education, we find ourselves at a fascinating inflection point. The emergence of powerful artificial intelligence tools has forever…
lthechat.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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@philrace.bsky.social and I are Very pleased to be told today on World Book day that our Lecturers Toolit will be published on 16th April. We will have discount flyers soon
March 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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A must have 👇
@philrace.bsky.social and I are Very pleased to be told today on World Book day that our Lecturers Toolit will be published on 16th April. We will have discount flyers soon
March 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Six weeks until "Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice" is published!
Pre-order today or wait until mid-April for the open access version from @mitpress.bsky.social Direct to Open program.
#literacies #AcademicSky #EduSky #BookSky
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255103...
Re/Marks on Power
Annotation—the seemingly simple act of marking a text—is often diminished as a marginal practice. It is prohibited in physical objects and considered irr...
mitpress.mit.edu
March 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A small reminder that there is more to literatures work than reviewing patthomson.net/2025/03/03/l...
literatures – look for blind spots
One of the problems with literatures work is that you deal with what’s published. And once you’ve accumulated what’s out there, you use them. You might find a definition or categories drawn from th…
patthomson.net
March 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Hosting #LTHEchat 318: Designing for Diverse Learners:
Hosting #LTHEchat 318: Designing for Diverse Learners - Dr Lee Fallin
Last week we took Designing for Diverse Learners to #LTHEchat. Catch up on the dialogue or read the full blog here.
leefallin.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Q3. How can we help non-game playing educators use games in learning situations? #LTHEChat
February 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Q5. How can we best use games in assessment of learning? Do you have any examples? #LTHEChat
February 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Last question
Q6. Game-based learning design takes time. How best can we collaborate on and share our games for HE? #LTHEChat
February 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Q4. What role can students play in designing games to support their learning, and how can we facilitate this? #LTHEChat
February 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A week from today!
New! Registration is live for my next pay-what-you-can (including $0) workshop for teachers. We're talking about boundaries, burnout, and human-centered teaching! Join us. #EduSky

www.tickettailor.com/events/uncon...
February 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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#LoveLD love the L&T Chat Show podcast double bill, with Carys Watts on 'Learning to Fail', helping her enterprise students reach their potential and Virna Rossi on 'Evidencing Impact', a must for anyone thinking about promotion, fellowship or NTF.
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L&T Chat Show
Podcast · Roger Saunders · Introducing new ideas for teaching and learning in higher education. A series of short interviews looking at practical methods for enhancing academic activities and student ...
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February 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Looking forward to this

#LTHEchat
#edusky
February 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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There's lots I can't control right now but I did create a fun escape room/puzzle box activity as a review for my undergrad social cognition class and watching them race through the puzzles today brought me joy 😍 1/
February 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore designing for diverse learners with Lee Fallin @leefallin.bsky.social, Tom Tomlinson @tomtomlinson.bsky.social and Gemma Spencer @gemmaspencer.bsky.social
on Wednesday 8-9pm GMT. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2025/02/09/l...
February 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Good Morning Vietnam Abbreviations
YouTube video by Frbyrd
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February 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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A5 Reveal the magic of how to do University, train and provide peer support. Can’t help think most of HE is about punishment not praise 🤔 #LTHEChat
February 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Q6.

By hacking the curriculum and showing others the way through systems that with the best will in the world will never ever be fully accessible or visible to learners.

If you know the way show the way.

Don't wait for faculty to do everything. Some teachers are heroes many are not.
#LTHEchat
February 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Just gonna leave this here—THIS is what makes
Quizizz one of a kind.

Accessibility isn’t an afterthought—it comes first. 💜

#AccessibilityMatters #InclusiveEducation #EdTechForAll #UDL #AccessibleEdTech
#EquityInEducation #EdTech
@quizizz.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Yes we are very likely to have expectations that all the new students will understand practices and language that are second nature to us but alien to new ‘non traditional’ students #lthechat
A1 Stuff that's so second nature to us institutionalised academic staff that we don't recognise that it may not be completely obvious to everyone else, especially students as we tend to forget theat we're some way removed from undergraduate days now.
#LTHEchat
February 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM