UNFED meeting notes – November 24 2010 The last meeting for 2010, and we had plenty of participants keen for news on the Blackboard upgrade and Moodle 2.0 pilot. The current status of UNSW-TV was also covered - Niki’s notes on the discussion are below. Only a little time was left for conference reports. Andrew [...]
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Blackboard, Moodle, UNSW-TV and more
December 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, Learning & teaching, TELT news, UNFED
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Using mobile learning devices for class polling and live marking
November 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events, Learning & teaching, UNFED
UNFED notes 27.10.10 John Paul Posada from Engineering showed some of the things they’ve been doing with iPod touch in classrooms: Live polling using Polleverywhere – this app runs from the web, so no software needs to be installed. It is free to use for small classes, and costs $700/year for large classes. Responders can [...]
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Using clickers in the classroom
November 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events, Learning & teaching, UNFED
UNFED notes 29th September 2010 Sorry this is late being posted as I was away – thanks to Xinni for hosting the meeting and compiling the notes Belinda Many regular participants were on leave. But, we still managed to attract more than a dozen people with ASB’s presentation on clickers and Niki’s readers’ digest on [...]
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Learning & Teaching Forum on Assessment – the appetiser
August 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events, Learning & teaching, UNFED
UNFED notes 25 August 2010 Winter bugs seem to be hitting late this year, so some regular participants were not to be seen – get well soon Niki and Mike Ann Wilson let everyone know what’s planned for the L&T Forum on September 17. This promises to be stimulating half day (with lunch!), focusing on [...]
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Fast & feral vs. slow & sure
July 29th, 2010 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events, Learning & teaching, UNFED
UNFED notes 28 July Fast and feral (Cat images from Carol, and Campus Cats) Carol Russell introduced a discussion on ‘Fast & feral vs. slow & sure’ for educational technology implementation. Carol and her colleague John Paul Posada have been piloting the faculty of Engineering’s own Moodle for the last session. There were several reasons [...]
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Social bookmarking and other Web2.0 goodies
April 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events, TELT news
UNFED notes 28.04.10 Robyn demonstrated and discussed the use of social bookmarking, in particular using Diigo, a group-based tool that is great for supporting collaborative work (see Robyn’s previous post on this for links and resources). These tools have great potential to support group work, so have a play, and spread the word. Some other [...]
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What is Sugar ??? and more on Copyright
March 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · events, TELT news, UNFED
UNFED notes 31.03.10 Mitch (L&T) is involved in the One Laptop Per Child project involving the rollout of laptops and learning technology to students in disadvantaged communities across the globe. He demonstrated the technologies being used, the Sugar learning platform (including Sugar on a Stick – a learning environment stored on a USB drive) and [...]
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More on Moodle, and all about copyright
March 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · events, Learning & teaching, UNFED
UNFED notes March 3 2010 The first meeting for 2010, and in spite of it being first week of session we had plenty of participants. Firstly, housekeeping – a brief discussion of whether we keep our meetings on Wednesday, or change to another day. For the benefit of those who can’t do Wednesdays, a meeting [...]
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Creative Commons, Mind manager, Moodle and more
November 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events, Learning & teaching, UNFED
UNFED notes November 25 2009 Creative Commons and UNSWorks Caroline Hedges presented a topic on Creative Commons, and how it applies to UNSWorks, which is the UNSW online repository of research publications. UNSWorks uses Creative Commons licensing to manage copyright of the works, and all UNSW staff are invited to publish their research publications there [...]
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ALT-C conference UK, and what’s happening with Blackboard …
October 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · events, Learning & teaching, UNFED
UNFED notes 30.09.09 ALT-C Carol Russell from Engineering was recently in the UK for the annual ALT-C conference (not to be confused with Australia’s ALTC…) Keynotes were by Michael Wesch (see his ‘Vision of Students Today’ video), Martin Bean (VC OU) and Terry Anderson (Athabasca University, Canada). There are links to their recorded talks on [...]