The University of Sussex hosted an Active Learning Masterclass on the 6th June (#almsussex), a day of sharing strategies to turn students from passive spectators into active creators. This was a collaboration between Technology Enhanced Learning and Wendy Garnham, funded by the Digital Practice Awards, and featured presentations and workshops from both Sussex staff and external speakers. Read more ›
Active Learning Masterclass
Tagged with: A - Z of apps, Apps, digital skills, Events, Interactive teaching, Multimedia, Periscope
Posted in Active learning, Events, Mobile learning
Posted in Active learning, Events, Mobile learning
Transforming Seminars with Padlet – Podcast Episode 10
How can we transform seminars using online collaboration? How can students develop digital skills and become active creators of multimedia learning resources?
In this episode, we interview Dr. Wendy Garnham (www.twitter.com/W_Garnham), who is a Teaching Fellow in Psychology and Director of Student Experience for one of the Foundation Year Programmes at the University of Sussex. Our discussion focuses on how Wendy transformed her seminars using Padlet, a free and easy-to-use online notice board which enables students to collaborate in real time to write text, embed multimedia content and post links to websites. We also talk about how Wendy helped to found a community around Active Learning following a Flipped Learning workshop run by the Technology Enhanced Learning team at Sussex.
Links:
Wendy Garnham – www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/10660
Wendy Garnham Twitter – www.twitter.com/W_Garnham
Padlet – www.padlet.com
Tagged with: Apps, Collaboration, digital skills, Interactive teaching, Learning Design, Learning Technology, Multimedia
Posted in Learning Design, Mobile learning, Podcast, Uncategorized
Posted in Learning Design, Mobile learning, Podcast, Uncategorized
Take 5 this summer and learn new skills
This summer Technology Enhanced Learning will be relaunching our hugely popular Take 5 series with some exciting new additions to our offer. Take 5 courses are a series of bitesize self-study online tutorials, open to all staff at the University of Sussex, which offer you the opportunity to discover a range of different learning technology topics and develop your skills in these areas. This summer the topics will include: digital productivity, blogging, LinkedIn and podcasting & screencasting. Read more ›
Tagged with: Collaboration, Events
Posted in Mobile learning, Social media, Study Direct, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in Mobile learning, Social media, Study Direct, Technology Enhanced Learning
Making meaning with Social Media
Images by Jam Zhang: full credits at the bottom of this post
When you hear the phrase ‘social media’, probably the first association that springs into your mind is conversing through short-form messages and shared links or images. You probably also recognise a range of practices, conventions and behaviours, such as collaborative authorship, tagging content to help it be found, a concern with identifying people-of-interest to help mediate one’s own experience and the location of personal artefacts in remote, shared collections. All these have been adopted as normal, expected aspects of just about any application facilitated by internet access, underpinning activity on both public social media such as Twitter and more contained business-targeted services, such as Slack. Read more ›
Tagged with: curriculum, Engagement, meaning, Social media
Posted in Digital scholarship, Learning Design, Mobile learning, Social media
Posted in Digital scholarship, Learning Design, Mobile learning, Social media
No time to read it now? Pop it in your Pocket for later!
This week we are introducing a useful tool for organising and collating interesting articles you find on the web.
Pocket lets you save articles, videos or images you find online in one place. You can then access them from any of your devices at a more convenient time on or offline.
Pocket allows you to:
- Save interesting articles, videos and images from around the web, then access them later through your pocket account on any of your devices.
- Read saved articles offline. This can be useful when in areas with no internet connection or if you wish to read articles without the fear of getting distracted online.
- Share articles using Pocket’s ‘Send to Friend’ feature, this can enable collaborative research on projects and assignments.
- Find ‘recommended features’ based on articles you have been saving. . So if you’re studying a certain topic this can be a good way to find related articles.
- Read free of distractions. Saved articles have unnecessary formatting and clutter such as ads, sidebars and comments stripped away, making the article far more readable. This can enable much easier focus on the content itself.
- Assign custom tags to your saved content allowing you to easily organise and locate articles that deal with a certain topic.
- Listen to saved articles on a iOS or Android device using the built in Text-to-Speech function. This can be useful for accessibility reasons or listening whilst exercising or on the go.
- Follow other people on Pocket. This means you will receive articles they have recommended, allowing you to get curated content from specialists or leaders in a certain field.
Community, creativity, competencies and cuteness: MUGSE comes to Sussex.
The Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team at the University of Sussex recently hosted a meeting of the Mahara User Group for Southern England (MUGSE). The sun shone as nearly 30 participants from eleven institutions in the region gathered to share their experiences with the e-portfolio platform and hear about new features in the upcoming release.
You can see some of the tweets from the event in this Wakelet put together by George Robinson (TEL).
The Mahara Community
Tell a story with Sutori
Sutori (previously known as HSTRY) is often thought of as a timeline tool, but Sutori ‘stories’ can be much more. With options to embed videos, sound files, create quizzes and add discussion forums it can be used by teachers and learners to create attractive and interactive learning resources. Read more ›
Scaffolding student learning with lecture capture.
Professor Janet Boddy
For this post, Tab Betts (Technology Enhanced Learning) spoke to Professor Janet Boddy (Education) about her experience of using lecture capture in her teaching at the University of Sussex.
Listen here to what Janet had to say about how lecture capture helps her and her students.
How can recorded lectures support student learning?
Janet sees recorded lectures as part of the scaffolding for her students’ learning – especially students who might have difficulty making good notes during a ‘live’ lecture. The ability to listen again to key points in a lecture and develop notes is a significant benefit of lecture capture. Read more ›
Tagged with: Janet Boddy, Lecture Capture, Lectures
Posted in Study Direct, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in Study Direct, Technology Enhanced Learning
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