Helen Whitehead
Learning Technology Consultant, Nottingham: University Park
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#lovefoodhatewaste on World Food Day
October 16, 2015
I’ve recently been following the #lovefoodhatewaste hashtag on Twitter. With recent news reports on the amount of food wasted worldwide, and the conference “Fight Food Waste, Feed the Planet” at Expo Milan 2015 tackling the issue of food waste with the EU and the UN, it’s very topical. Today, 16th October, World Food Day, UN …
Today is the day to PROPERLY wash your hands!
October 15, 2015
Today (15th October) is Global Handwashing Day, “a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives”. It’s particularly designed to foster creative initiatives to encourage people to wash their hands effectively. At the University of …
Sustainability, Society and You MOOC starts on 2nd November
October 13, 2015
At the end of September world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed to 17 Global Goals which aim to achieve three extraordinary things in all countries in the next 15 years. End extreme poverty. Fight inequality & injustice. Fix climate change. How do these …
How to Read Your Boss – join us for 27 Oct!
October 22, 2014
Would you like to read your boss better and enhance your own workplace communication at the same time? There’s still time to sign up for ‘How to Read Your Boss’, the University of Nottingham’s next MOOC, starting on 27th October on FutureLearn. Dr. Louise Mullany from the School of English has devised this two-week course …
Take the Sustainability challenge and sign up for a NOOC!
September 25, 2014
We have two online courses starting on Wednesday 8 October for all students and staff of the University of Nottingham who are interested in sustainability. You can choose from: Sustainable and Responsible Business and Perspectives on Sustainability Both can be used to earn credits towards the Nottingham Advantage Award. Sustainable & Responsible Business runs for …
Upcycling all the rage?
July 18, 2014
Two of the course team for our current FutureLearn MOOC, Sustainability, Society and You, course leader Sarah Speight and engineer Mike Clifford, have been busy reusing unwanted pallets. Mike’s gone for a cerebral solution and has turned his into a bookcase (could do with a bit of sanding down and a wax Mike), while Sarah’s …
Sustainability, Society & You – still time to join the free online course
June 17, 2014
Sarah Speight writes: We are now underway with the 2nd free public version of Sustainability, Society & You, having finished the 1st run in March 2014. The world hasn’t changed much in three months. The population has continued to grow, more species have become extinct, more rainforest has disappeared and climate-change related disasters have edged …
Grow your own veg successfully!
June 9, 2014
One of the ways in which many of us try to live sustainably is by growing our own food. Personally, I can’t seem to grow anything worth eating, but Sarah Speight, course leader for the Sustainability, Society and You MOOC which runs again on FutureLearn from next Monday 16 June, has much more success! During …
Keep calm and pre-cycle!
June 6, 2014
As part of the closing stages of the ‘Sustainability, Society and You’ MOOC we ask participants to, if they wish, produce a poster on a subject relating to sustainability. These are then peer reviewed by other learners. As many are posted publicly, we have seen some wonderful examples, from simple informative posters or exhortations to …
Welcome to the Anthropocene video
June 4, 2014
Although it’s a couple of years old, this video, made by Owen Gaffney at the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), about climate and environmental change is still very relevant – take a look. “Welcome to the Anthropocene” is a film about the state of the planet, which opened the UN’s Rio+20 summit on sustainable development in June …
