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Coming soon…
Our 2010 planner is now in production and we thought you might like a sneak preview of the cover.
Planners will be available from mid-November (keep a look out for them in our online shop – link is to the left).
21,000 students get organised this year with the Foldedsheet LearnHigher academic year planners 2009/10.
Funded by participating universities, these planners are given away free to students at the beginning of the academic year… so good luck with the new term and hope you all enjoy using your planners!
For more details, check out the link on the left to our Tumblr archive.
We have confirmed orders from eleven universities for the 2009/10 LearnHigher academic year planners (layouts will be available on our Tumblr resource soon).
Aston University
University of Bournemouth
University of Brighton
Brunel University
University of Glamorgan
University of Leeds
Liverpool Hope University
London Metropolitan University
Nottingham Trent University
University of Reading
University of Surrey
In the next academic year, over 21,000 students will be managing their time effectively at university!
The template for the LearnHigher planner has now been finalised – for more details click on the LearnHigher page (located in the title bar above).
We have been working with LH researchers in Time Management for nearly two years now, developing a range of visual planning resources for students in Higher Education. Next month, Michelle Reid (University of Reading) and Pauline Ridley (University of Brighton) of the LearnHigher CETL will be making a presentation titled Visualising the future: creating new paper-based resources at the LDHEN symposium. See reid_abstract for an outline of the parallel session, or view the PDF presentation here: Visualising the Future LDHEN 09 powerpoint slides
“The 6th annual symposium of the Learning Development in Higher Education Network (LDHEN) will be held on Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th April 2009 at Bournemouth University. This year’s symposium theme offers an opportunity to engage with a range of debates about the nature and purposes of learning development.”
See the ALDinHE (Association for Learning Development in Higher Education) website for more details of this symposium.
Latest News
We have just printed a new (promo) planner for LearnHigher, using a similar template to the 2008/9 Generic version (see earlier posts, or check out the Tumblr archive for more details). However, this one has been updated to include three double-height panels of ‘Top Tips’ from the 20 learning areas of LearnHigher. The planner has been requested by, and distributed to, nearly 60 universities across the UK. This is part of LearnHigher research and development at the University of Reading – see www.learnhigher.ac.uk for more details of this project. The 2009/10 LearnHigher planner template is also in the final stages of development, details of which will be released soon.
This academic planner has been developed in conjunction with the University of Brighton and the University of Reading as part of the LearnHigher CETL.
We now have a NEW Tumblr site, where you can view all Foldedsheet publications. Here, you can see the layouts for all sheets with the publishing info for each project. You can also use the ARCHIVE section if you wish to view individual sheets. This site will be added to with each new commission or project.
Pilot Scheme: foldedsheet Academic Year-to-View Planners 2008/9
What’s good / what works / what’s not so good?
Over the next few weeks we are gathering feedback and comments from the four universities involved in our pilot scheme: Royal College of Art, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, University College Falmouth and Trinity College of Music. A total of 700 foldedsheet Academic Year-to-View planners were distributed to their students in September 2008.
We are looking forward to hearing their views.
Critical feedback and user comments are very important to our process of research and development. The Universities involved in the pilot scheme are part of this process, their feedback will provide the ideas and inspiration to refine and improve the 2009/10 version of the planner.
All feedback welcomed, honest appraisal of the planners will really help in the development of this resource. There is always room for improvement and through the pilot scheme we hope students and staff will be generous and thoughtful with their opinions and comments.
THE SCHEME
Four Higher Education Art Institutions will pilot our Foldedsheet year planners, these will be distributed to undergraduate and postgraduate students. The universities will receive over 100 planners each, enabling 700 students to visually map their time at university this academic year. Project planning, assessment deadlines, work schedules, important appointments and lectures can all be ‘mapped’ on the planner.
THE UNIVERSITIES
Royal College of Art
Central St. Martins College of Art and Design
University College Falmouth
Trinity College of Music
Our planners have plenty of room to jot down appointments, a large weekly overview section and lots of space for notes. Carry it around with you like a diary, stick it up on the wall to see what your whole year looks like, or if you are a bit short of space fold your planner and secure with a clip to view two months at a time instead…
you can also fold it to see six months to view, use it as a personal notice board, apply colour-coded stickers, add post-it notes, stick reminders and scraps to it, use highlighter pens, hang it from a clip, tape it to the wall, fold and re-fold it… to work out how your big ideas and projects can be organised.
