Staff

Billy Brick is the Languages Centre Manager at Coventry University, with a special interest in the teaching and learning of languages for specific purposes.

His teaching responsibilites include module leader for Language and Society since the 1960s and Multi-media in Teaching and Learning.  Previous teaching experience in German-English Technical Translation, Language in Use, Business English and various aspects of the European Construction Industry

He has also participated as a lecturer on the MSc in European Construction Engineering (as a visiting lecturer in Santander, Porto and Esjberg ) teaching students about the impact of the EU on the construction industry in Europe, and wrote his MPhil thesis on the post-unification East German Construction Industry.

BA (Hons) Contemporary European Studies, M (Phil) the post-unification East German Construction Industry.

Coventry University since 1990

• Using ICT in language learning, plagiarism, feedback
• Web 2.0 and Technology in Language Teaching and Learning

Member of the Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies Subject Centre specialist advisory group for languages.

From carrot to stick – using Turnitin to help improve students’ writing http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/publications/casestudies/assess/turnitin.php

Brick,B, ‘Using screen capture software for student feedback’, [Paper presented at the Languages in Higher Education Conference, University of York, 8 – 9 July 2008] 

Brick, B, ‘Using screen capture software for student feedback’ [Poster presentation at  the Cercles Language Centres for a Plurilingual Future in Europe conference, Seville, Spain,18-20 July 2008]

Brick, B & Lloyd, E. ‘Screen Capture Software: how useful is it for student feedback?’  [Paper presented at the EUROCALL Conference, Kodolányi University College,  Székesfehérvár, Hungary, 3-6 September 2008]

Brick, B & Lloyd, E. ‘An introduction to providing student feedback with Camtasia Screen Recorder’ [Pre-conference workshop at the EUROCALL Conference, Kodolányi University College,  Székesfehérvár, Hungary, 3-6 September 2008]

Brick, B, ‘Screen Capture Software: how useful is it for student feedback? ‘[Workshop at iPED08, Coventry University, 7-8 September 2008]

Brick, B & Holmes, J. ‘Using screen capture software for student feedback’ [Paper presented at  the IADIS CELDA 2008 conference, Freiburg, Germany,13-15 October 2008]

Brick, B, ‘Using screen capture software for student feedback: towards a methodology’ e-Learning symposium, University of Southampton, 29 - 30 January 2009

Events
How to provide student feedback using screen capture software
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/archive/3170

GERAS Conference March 12th-14th 2009
Teaching Engineering English  -  Practitioners at a Crossroads?