Inspiration for your reading list

 

Some inspiration for a few ways to elevate your resource list in order to engage your students.

1. Consider adding some of the many film, documentary and TV programmes available through UCL subscriptions.  Add links to rich resources from the BFI Player, Kanopy, BoB and more; some platforms allow you to create your own playlists or clips of AV material for targeted teaching.  Ask your Subject Liaison Librarian for further platform recommendations, specific to your subject.
2. In the first few weeks of teaching, set a task which requires interaction with your reading list.  Visiting the list early can encourage students to remember where it is and revisit it more often.  Integrating your list into Moodle can also help remind students where resources are kept.
3. Use your list to develop your students’ information literacy, search skills and research skills, by inviting them to analyse your reading list for diversity. You will benefit from your students’ different perspectives and backgrounds and may be able to incorporate their recommendations into your curriculum. See the ‘Activity: Student analysis of reading lists’ (right hand column) on the Liberating the Curriculum page of the ReadingLists@UCL Guide for more notes on this suggestion.