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Blackboard, Moodle, UNSW-TV and more

December 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, Learning & teaching, TELT news, UNFED

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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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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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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Public lectures on: Writing The Future: How Digital Books Will Change the World and Going Mobile: Building for the New Mobility

April 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Announcements, bbstaff, bbstaffannouncements, Networked learning, Tools & applications

Two public lectures being presented by Sydney Ideas, The University of Sydney’s public lecture series program. Writing The Future: How Digital Books Will Change the World and Going Mobile: Building for the New Mobility Dr Bill Rankin Associate Professor of English and Director of Educational Innovation at Abilene Christian University (ACU) in Abilene, Texas along [...]

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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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Online report writing resource … and finding out about Open Education

August 27th, 2009 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events, Learning & teaching, Networked learning, UNFED

UNFED notes 25.08.09 WRISE Pam Mort from UNSW Learning Centre demonstrated WRISE, an online resource to help students with report writing in Science and Engineering. Developed in association with The University of Sydney and supported by an ALTC grant, the resource is publicly available. It is being used by staff and students across several disciplines, [...]

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Technology Enabled Learning & Teaching at UNSW

May 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Syndicated Post

Given my role in the TELT project as an eLearning Researcher and Educational Technologist, I should probably preempt this post by saying the opinions and perspectives contained here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of UNSW, or the individuals in the video. Basically this isn’t a formal media release; they’re just my thoughts and experiences.
This video was posted just this evening on the UNSW eLearning Channel at YouTube and I thought it was worth sharing. This is primarily to establish a point of reference regarding …

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Recap of the Sydney Educators Network Meeting

May 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · 111, events, Syndicated Post

In light of the innaugural meeting of the SENG network (formal name STILL being discussed) yesterday, I wanted to take a couple of minutes to reflect on what took place, what was discussed, and throw in a few words on my interpretations and opinions .
We dropped the ball on recording the event
I’m very sorry to [...]

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