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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 [...]

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 [...]

Online polling, Flickr as gallery tool, more on accessibility

July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Events, TELT news, UNFED

Notes on UNFED meeting 24 June 2009 John Paul demonstrated the use of Poll Everywhere, a free online polling facility, that could be used in place of classroom ‘clickers’. (Also see PollDaddy) Rita showed some useful online resources to support web accessibility in higher education. Creating Accessible Teaching and Support (CATS) is a web based [...]

Living and Learning with Social Media: Danah Boyd

May 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Learning & teaching, Networked learning, Opinion

I’ve yet to hear Danah Boyd speak in person but I enjoy her papers and posts. Danah describes herself as ‘Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society’. She recently completed her PhD at the School of Information (iSchool) at the University of California [...]

Are we “Us” or “Them”?

April 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Debates, Issues, Opinion, Research

I’m reading Ray Land’s article on concepts of change in organisation and the “matching” orientations / dispositions of academic developers. I am truly amazed with the range of concepts and approaches mapped out in the paper – from “managerial” (focused on progressive transition management, strategic leadership) to “romantic” (interested in personal growth, self identified change), [...]

TELT – a simple way to network?

April 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Debates, Learning & teaching, Opinion, Research

I have been pondering about this blog post for a while now, today is as good time as any to actually sit down and post it. Photo by dsevilla, Flickr – Creative Commons As part of my role at L&T@UNSW I’m in charge of coordinating the Foundations of University Learning & Teaching program (FULT). [...]

Introduction to Seesmic

April 3rd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Resources

This is a demonstration of a video discussion tool named Seesmic. The first clip below demonstrates the tool itself, with the second and third clips containing screencasts of the site as well as how you configure your machine to record videos. Seesmic for Classroom Video Discussion Configuring your computer to use Seesmic

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