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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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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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Get started with Diigo

April 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Resources, Tools & applications, UNFED

As promised in my UNFED session today here’s a summary of sites and links to get you started with the social bookmarking tool Diigo. Diigo (pronounced as Dee’go)  is a social bookmarking tool,  collaborative research tool, and knowledge-sharing community rolled into one. Favourite sites can be saved online for access from any computer, and persistent [...]

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Learning and teaching connections

April 7th, 2010 · Comments Off · bbstaff, bbstaffannouncements, Learning & teaching, staffannouncements, UNFED

UNFED (UNSW Network of Faculty Educational Developers) meets monthly to enable educational developers, and other interested people,  working in schools and faculties to meet with each other and with Learning and Teaching developers to raise issues of importance, and communicate professional development and Learning and Teaching support needs. All interested people are invited to join [...]

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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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