Category: Teaching
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Interactive Orals – Bringing Back the Joy of Teaching
I’m now just over halfway through facilitating the interactive orals for ETL504, and I wanted to share how I’ve been finding the experience so far. Spoiler alert: I am really loving it!
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Teaching, Unmasking, and Finding the Flow in 2025
If you’ve read my recent posts, you know that 2025 was a year of personal discovery. Coming to terms with my AuDHD diagnosis has been a journey of recovery, discovery, and peace. While reading the feedback from my students in the Subject Evaluation Surveys, I realised that my personal journey had bled into my professional…
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SICS Learning & Teaching Retreat 2024
Krystal reflects on her teaching journey, highlighting insights gained from a recent learning retreat, particularly on designing accessible digital learning materials, which has revitalized her approach to teaching.
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To remove or not to remove
Edited on 25/07/2025 to add reference to and discussion of the ALIA Code of Ethics – Cannot believe I missed this! 🤦♀️ I recently wrote the following piece to share my thinking and decision-making process with my students, following questions raised about the inclusion of an author’s work in a particular subject. I thought it…
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Tidying links for APA7 reference lists
Ever been pulled up for untidy links in your referencing? Did you know that when you copy and paste a URL from a source you’ve come to through a search engine, it might have some extra details that you don’t need? Well, now you do! Here is a quick guide on how to clean up…
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Paraphrasing is not *just* about avoiding plagiarism
One of the adjustments I had to make when stepping into the world of teacher librarianship was my understanding of paraphrasing. During my schooling and first couple of uni degrees, I was operating under the assumption that paraphrasing was changing someone else’s writing to not be word-for-word when using it in my writing. How wrong…
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Reflecting on giving feedback
Once upon a time, there was a senior geography teacher and she had a year 11 class filled with 10, bright and diligent students. One day, the teacher gave the students their marked assessments back. To her surprise, despite the generally high quality and marks awarded, the students seemed unhappy. The teacher, who had spent many years developing relationships with…
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Brisbane Study Visit Wrap-up
Today we wrapped up our Brisbane Study Visit so I thought I’d share my 5 key takeaways!
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Creating a hanging indent in WordPress
Ever wondered how to create a hanging indent for your references in WordPress? I wrote a blog post with steps for how to do this – let me know how you go!