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 [...]
Blackboard, Moodle, UNSW-TV and more
December 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Learning & teaching, TELT news, UNFED
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Using mobile learning devices for class polling and live marking
November 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · 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 · No Comments · 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 · No Comments · 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 · No Comments · 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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Online Role Play
June 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Learning & teaching, UNFED
UNFED meeting 30.06.10 – notes Elizabeth Rosser (Foundation Studies) introduced John Shepherd (Computer Science & Engineering) and Iain Skinner (Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications) for a session on Online Role Play. John discussed some of the essential elements of a system to support role play activities, and some systems available for developing and facilitating online role [...]
Threshold concepts and Web2.0 in teaching
May 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Connections & collaboration, TELT news
UNFED notes 26.05.10 Using thresholds concepts in L&T support for academics Margaret Blackmore, L&T Projects Co-ordinator at UNSW Library, spoke about the emerging theory of Threshold Concepts as it applies to academic support for learning and teaching. As a conceptual tool this can help to unpack the learning issues that students are having, focusing on [...]
Social bookmarking and other Web2.0 goodies
April 28th, 2010 · No Comments · 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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Learning and Teaching Gateway – have your say
April 28th, 2010 · No Comments · TELT news
Focus groups for Faculties to provide input to the design of the planned online L&T Gateway will commence later in May. We are looking for participants who have an interest in learning and teaching, including teaching support staff, and academics who want assistance with course design and development, applying for grants and awards in learning [...]
What is Sugar ??? and more on Copyright
March 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments · 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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