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Setting up for Round 2 of Teaching with Teams

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Refining my Teams setup Back in June, I blogged about my experiences using Teams to teach my undergraduate auditing subject in Autumn semester (Semester 1 in Australia). Based on the anonymous student feedback survey and my own navel-gazing – there were three areas that needed improvement – conveying information about assessment tasks, organising recordings of our synchronous classes and virtual office hours. 1. Information about assessment tasks Students were used to using Blackboard as the main learning platform – so when we moved to Teams, I used it in the same way – I added the Assessment Task guides as

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5 Secrets to Creating Engaging Videos for Learning

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Way back in December 2019, I proposed a session for the American Accounting Association’s Conference on Teaching and Learning (CTLA) on how to create engaging videos for learning. They accepted before COVD19 was even on our radar, but the presentation has become very timely – especially for my northern hemisphere colleagues who only had a few weeks of online teaching before they went off on the long summer break. These aren’t really secrets – but it makes for a catchy title – and these are things I’ve learned over 10 years of making content for students and also for YouTube.

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Microsoft Teams for teaching auditing

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Why Microsoft Teams? I had seen Teams being used by Dr David Kellerman at UNSW to create a dynamic learning community and this greatly interested me. I’ve always found learning to be a social activity and the idea of creating a more social learning experience was extremely appealing – in the past, I had found students much more willing to engage in Facebook groups than on Blackboard discussion boards. I started investigating how I might use Microsoft Teams for teaching and I was lucky enough to chat with great people from Microsoft who pointed me in the direction of demos,

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New roles to support the accounting profession

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I’m on sabbatical for the 2nd half of 2019 – I’m working on some research projects, attending conferences and 2 exciting new roles in which I can support the accounting profession. The first is the honour of being chosen as one of 2 inaugural Academic Scholars at the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board. I’m working with AUASB staff to develop resources related to improving the public’s understanding of assurance and audit and how auditors can support audit quality. The latter topic is quite a timely one given the announcement in early August of a parliamentary inquiry into audit quality. My

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