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TELT Pilots and ASCILITE 2010

March 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, TELT news, UNFED

This is the first meeting for 2011. We have a lot of people attended including Fiona Thurn, new education technologist from the Learning and Teaching unit. Karsten and Fiona answered questions regarding TELT pilots Moodle pilot Learning and Teaching is currently running Moodle pilots on both version 1.9 (semester one) and version 2.0 (semester one [...]

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Blackboard, Moodle, UNSW-TV and more

December 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

CreateWorld 2010 – “Working on the Edge – Creativity, Technology and Innovation”

August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcements, Bb staff announcements, bbstaff, Connections & collaboration, Events, staffannouncements

CreateWorld 2010 – “Working on the Edge – Creativity, Technology and Innovation” 29 November – 1 December 2010 Given the success of the last four events, the AUC will again be hosting the CreateWorld conference – a three day performance, presentation, and professional development event, specifically for academic and higher-education technical staff in the digital [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Blogging examples in Higher Ed

May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Tools & applications

A very big thank you to Jim Groom over at UMW for his series of four posts outlining some examples of educational blogging on UMW Blogs. And thank you also to Mike Bogle in FASS for initiating the contact. UMW is a useful model for us here at UNSW as we move through our pilot [...]