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Dr Christopher Wiley delivers workshop presentation on electronic voting systems at Lancaster University

15 November 2016

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charles-carter-buildingDr Christopher Wiley was the invited external speaker for a ‘Lunch and Learn’ event on Turning Technologies polling software held in the Charles Carter Building at Lancaster University on 15 November 2016.

His one-hour workshop, ‘Enhancing Student Engagement Through Electronic Voting Systems: Innovative Pedagogies and Creative Applications’, was attended by some 25 academics from across the University and was followed by a lively question and answer session. The programme for the event is available here.

Dr Wiley has given learning and teaching workshops on electronic voting systems at several universities across England since 2014, in addition to a recent Keynote at a conference at the University of Exeter and an internationally broadcast webinar.

Update: Dr Wiley has contributed an entry on student response systems to the Educational Developers’ Cookbook, an international online resource launched in December 2016. His piece, entitled ‘Feedback and Evaluation using Electronic Voting Systems’, may be read here: http://teachingcommons.yorku.ca/feedback-and-evaluation-using-electronic-voting-systems/

Dr Christopher Wiley gives pre-performance talks for Glyndebourne Tour 2016

9 November 2016

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mk-galleryDr Christopher Wiley has delivered two pre-performance talks for Glyndebourne Tour 2016, to preface its productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, on 8 and 9 November, respectively.

Both talks were delivered at the MK Gallery, Milton Keynes prior to performances at the nearby Milton Keynes Theatre. Speaking to some 60 audience members, Dr Wiley introduced the plots and characters of the operas, their historical backgrounds, noteworthy features of the music (such as Puccini’s use of authentic Japanese tunes in the score of Madama Butterfly), and aspects of the interpretations taken by Glyndebourne’s productions.

Dr Wiley has previously given pre-performance talks for Glyndebourne in 2014 and 2015, but this is the first time that he has been invited to speak at Milton Keynes.

Update: Dr Wiley reprised his pre-performance talk on Puccini’s Madama Butterfly to some 60 opera-goers in the Rhoda McGaw Theatre, Woking on 30 November, by way of introduction to Glyndebourne’s production later that evening in the adjacent New Victoria Theatre.