• ARS Blog @ Bath – http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/ars
• Using electronic voting systems to support student learning in engineering – http://www.engsc.ac.uk/nef/events/onlineseries/evsseminar.asp#video
• The use of Audience Response Systems to provide peer feedback – http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/ars/2008/11/03/the-use-of-audience-response-systems-to-provide-peer-feedback/
• Using Twitter, sms, word clouds and audience response in my workshops – http://www.mobile-learning.blog-city.com/using_twitter_sms_word_clouds_and_audience_response_system.htm
• Using an electronic voting system to enhance learning and teaching – http://www.engsc.ac.uk/downloads/scholarart/ee2008/p088-russell.pdf
• Using Twitter in Education – http://www.mobile-learning.blog-city.com/using_twitter_in_education__what_the_mlearn_audience_though.htm
• Using word clouds in teaching and learning – https://www.bath.ac.uk/opus/handle/10247/474

Other useful links

• The session plan (mind genius mind map)
• my reflections on how I might use technology to change my teaching (word document)

Session evaluation

Using Twitter in Education – http://www.mobile-learning.blog-city.com/using_twitter_in_education__what_the_mlearn_audience_though.htm

Audience Response Systems

University of Bath Audience Response Systems Blog – http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/ars

Using an electronic voting system to enhance learning and teaching (Russell) – http://www.engsc.ac.uk/downloads/scholarart/ee2008/p088-russell.pdf

SMS and Word Clouds

Using word clouds in teaching and learning – https://www.bath.ac.uk/opus/handle/10247/474

In response to informal feedback from staff at the University, the e-learning team have widened the range of topics that we cover in our workshops and seminars. We have also re-designed many of the sessions so that the learning aims can be achieved in 2 hours, and have shifted the emphasis of the sessions to be focussed more on explicit scenarios that better mirror needs at the University.

For instance, two or our new workshops include;

1. Further developing your Moodle skills. This workshop is based on a range of common scenarios at the University and the emphasis is on developing your awareness of how you might use the range of tools and features within Moodle for both e-learning and e-administration.

2. Using technology to support large group teaching. This workshop is based around you developing an appropriate scenario given how you teach your large groups. After developing the scenario we will unpick the potential uses for different technologies to enhance the effectiveness this scenario. Finally, you will develop these using a range of technologies from audience response systems, sms, use of multimedia and lecture capture.

We have also introduced a new lunchtime event, entitled “what can e-learning do for me?” This is a whistle-stop tour of different scenarios of use and technologies.

If you’d like to find out more about these and other staff development events run by the e-learning team then please visit the events area on the LTEO web site, http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/events-workshops/
Posted in Workshops ]]> http://tasterseries.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/e-learning-workshops-and-seminars-some-new-arrivals/feed/ 0 andyoutandabout http://tasterseries.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/what-can-e-learning-do-for-me/ http://tasterseries.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/what-can-e-learning-do-for-me/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:20:51 +0000 Nitin Parmar http://tasterseries.wordpress.com/?p=38 ]]> The slides from this staff development session at the University of Bath are now available on SlideShare.

For further details on the workshop and to book a place for yourself, please visit the relevant area on Learning and Teaching Enhancement Office website.

I have followed up with using video skype on my device and it appears that this isn’t possible on Windows Mobile However, if you’d like to find out more about the possibilities then have a look at the Skype forum. It isn’t that techie, so you can learn lots.

In terms of the Audience Response System, I thought I didn’t do the results justice. If we had more time we could have unpicked the swing away from strongly agreeing with the idea of using Skype to support people at distance. I think what came through from the session was that people got a better idea of what skype could do and more importantly what it is good at. This re-alignment between expectations and reality within the context of some of the very concrete ideas of use might explain the shift in the voting patterns. Thanks … perhaps add your thoughts through the comments.

We strongly recommend that you try it, so please install and if you’d like to test your video call, then email and we can arrange a time to connect.

Please ask questions through the comments area.

Alternatively you can download the file: Eatbath_9th_june_final.mp3

• What is txt communication good for?
• Which tools can help us be smart about SMS communication?
• How can SMS support learning (in synchronous class activities and out of sessions)?
• What are the benefits and challenges of using SMS communication with students?
• How could you use SMS in your teaching?

Please bring your mobile phone! It is at 1.15 to 2.05 in 1 West North 3.10

The slides are now available

Some reflections on the session are available on Roger Gardner’s blog.