Keeping up to date - alerting services

ISS will be running a training session on 'Keeping up to date - alerting services' on 3 May.

What: Keeping up to date - alerting services
When: Tues. 3rd May 12 – 1
Where: PC Room 3 in the Library

This session will look at the various e-mail and alerting services which you can use to keep up to date with new books, journal articles, conferences, etc. It will include a demonstration of Zetoc and ticTocs, two services for keeping up to date with new journal papers.

To book a place, please email b.r.mathias@swansea.ac.uk

Free JISC Advance Webcast on Recording Lectures and Screencasts

Free and live to your desktop - JISC Advance brings you a practical, relevant guide to the legal, technical and accessibility issues involved in recording lectures and screencasts. At a time when lecture recording systems are becoming more common, and the demand is high for flexible access to learning, experts from JISC Legal, JISC Digital Media and JISC Techdis bring you the answers to common questions surrounding:

• deciding to record lectures
• preparing to make the recording
• what needs to be done after recording

in order to ensure best practice with regards to legal compliance, accessibility and effectiveness.

The webcast runs from 2pm-4pm on Wednesday, 13 April 2011, it’s free, with no requirement to sign up beforehand – simply go to http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Webcasts/RecordingLecturesWebcast.aspx.

If you visit this page just now you should be able to view a test card presentation - if that's working for you then you're already set up to view the broadcast itself, you need do nothing further than simply return to the page shortly before 2pm on the day. (There will be a clear link from the home page.)”

e-Learning Training form Netskills

This spring Netskills are running e-Learning workshops in Newcastle, Edinburgh, Birmingham and London, offering practical training (presentation & hands-on), support and expertise in e-Learning skills and techniques.

New Workshop

Their newest workshop "Instructional Design for e-Learning" brings together methodologies, techniques and technologies to help you create high-impact resources, focusing specifically on your learner and their experience.

Find this workshop in:
Edinburgh, Mon 28th Feb, http://bit.ly/fV8iZp Birmingham, Thu 17th Mar, http://bit.ly/dSdhSi

Gain a qualification in e-Learning

Following the success of last years BTEC accredited workshops, Netskills are pleased to continue to offer these popular workshops and qualifications again.

Join them in Newcastle for 3 days of intensive "e-Learning Essentials" running Wed 2nd – Fri 4th Mar Develop the knowledge and skills you need to create high-quality, pedagogically aligned e-learning in this intensive 3-day BTEC Certificate accredited workshop. More details: http://bit.ly/hh9FPg

Or try "e-Learning Fundamentals" running in London, Tue 8 - Wed 9th Mar Learn how to design and develop effective, high-quality, pedagogically aligned e-learning in this intensive 2-day BTEC Award accredited workshop. More details: http://bit.ly/g3XDU2


These workshops form part of a wider programme for more information on dates, topics, prices and locations see the Netskills website: http://bit.ly/fOpGJD

Glamorgan University CELT EVENTS IN JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2010

Registration is compulsory, so should you wish to attend any of these events, please contact celtevents@glam.ac.uk.

Learner Generated Contexts and the Co-Creation of Learning
Seminar arranged in conjunction with Dr Lynne Gornall, Evaluator, Merthyr Moodle project (CSO)
27th January 2010
12.00 – 2.00, H213, Treforest campus
Presented by: Fred Garnett (Visiting Research Associate - London Knowledge Lab) and Nigel Ecclesfield (Head of FE Research - Becta)

Assessment & Feedback from the student perspective
29th January 2010
12.00 – 2.00, Venue: J234, Treforest campus
Presenters to include Rob East (HASS) and Jonathan Durrant (HASS)
Blended Learning: Experiences and insights from the BLU
3rd February 2010
12.00 – 2.00, Venue: J233, Treforest campus
Presented by: Mark Russell (Deputy Director -Blended Learning Unit, University of Hertfordshire)

Putting assessment at the heart of learning: Results from the Change Academy
10th February 2010
12.00 – 2.00, H13, Treforest campus
Presenters: Prof Norah Jones (CELT), Alice Lau (CELT) & Dr Cath Jones (HASS)

Enhancing Learning & Teaching with Technology?

Blogs, reflection, Blackboard, collaboration, wikis, social bookmarking, Course Genie, Pebble pad........ What's all that then and how can any of them enhance my teaching?

A new series of workshops, training and drop in sessions can be a found here http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk/training.html , which should help you find out more

All the sessions last for one hour. Some sessions work as a pair but attendance at both is not compulsory. After each session the trainers will be available for another hour to work with you on specific issues if required.

All the courses take place in PC Room 1 in the Library
Directions to PC Room 1

You can book places though the e-Learning team elearning@swansea.ac.uk

Event: Free Conference - Mobile Technology

Wolverhamption Learning Lab and Edutxt are pleased to announce its one day conference at Priorslee Hall, Telford at the Shropshire Campus of the University of Wolverhampton.

Every student and 98% of parents have a mobile phone capable of sending and receiving SMS text messages. It is undeniably socially and digitally inclusive. Desktop SMS is now being used in hundreds of Universities, Colleges and Schools. This is your opportunity to find out from peers why.

This one day FREE* event is designed to give you an insight into how colleges and universities are utilising this simple technology to dramatically improve the way they communicate with their students and peers.

Learn from people who have been using this technology every day for years

• Experience practical case examples delivered by users
• Understand how you will improve your service to students
• Free trial accounts and some free messages
• Txt geniuses on hand all day to give expert tips and free training
• See what future developments are taking place in the coming months

Keynote by Mike Short, Vice President of Research and Development O2


Register for your FREE* place now at http://www.learninglab.org.uk

February Glamorgan CELT Events

Registration is compulsory, so should you wish to attend any of these events, please complete a registration form for each seminar and return to celtevents@glam.ac.uk. More events are yet to be confirmed, so please visit http://celt.glam.ac.uk/seminars for updates.

Excellence in Media Education – The Next Steps

11th February 2009

Venue: CB403, Atrium Campus, Cardiff

Speaker: Jon Wardle - Bournemouth University

The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University now moves into the second phase of its cycle to innovate and promote excellence in teaching and learning. In this session, Jon Wardle will discuss a range of recent CEMP initiatives, research and projects and demonstrate a range of learning and assessment tools of interest to anyone teaching in the Art Design and Media subjects areas in both FE and HE.

University engagement with learning opportunities in the workplace

17th February 2009
12.00 – 2.00
Venue: G508, Treforest campus

Speakers: Heather Skinner (CELT/GBS) and Peter J. Green (CELT)

Learning Through Employment is a framework which allows individuals already in employment to work towards a university level qualification relevant to their specific area of work. Its main feature is that the majority of learning takes place through active and reflective engagement with work activities, underpinned by the appropriate academic knowledge and skills. Courses can be tailored around any subject and are negotiated between the learner, the university and the employer.

Event: E-portfolios, LEAP? PDP? What's all that then?

The next Lunch and Learn session will be on e-portfolios, LEAP and PDP by Chris Cardew. But what are e-portfolios, LEAP and PDP?

Personal Development Planning, PDP for students has been a requirement for University departments as a part of the everyday process since 2005.

The Quality Assurance Agency, QAA describes PDP as ‘Structured and supported processes to develop the capacity of individuals to reflect upon their learning and achievement and to plan for their own personal education and career development’

The need for an individual to reflect upon their learning on a regular basis is fundamental to making PDP work.

Is an E-portfolio a tool which can support and enhance this process?

The session will touch briefly on PDP, e-portfolios and reflection with some examples of web based tools that can be used as an e-portfolio.

• When: Friday 7th March
  
• What Time: 1-2pm
• Where: Staff Development Unit

Event: E-Learning & Cakes

The next E-Learning and Cakes session will on Friday 22nd February at 11:00am in Room 703 on the 7th Floor of the Library building. As usual it's not a formal meeting but a chance for anyone who is interested in using technology in learning to share what they are doing and find out what others are up to.

Event: Shock of the Old - Web 2.0 and the Connected Future

"Shock 7 will explore the issues arising from an increasingly connected future. The rise of online content-creation tools, personalised information services and new rivals to institutional learning spaces presents both an opportunity and challenge to educational technologists. How can we make the best use of these exciting new opportunities for teaching, learning and research? Can we, and should we, integrate Web 2.0 personal technologies used by the socially networked learner?"

More from http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock2008/

Shock combines with Beyond Digital Natives - Old Problems New Systems

"The Beyond debate this year is focusing on Digital Natives - exploring how learning styles have changed for the "Net Generation". The debate will include Prof. Rose Luckin, Professor of Learner Centred Design at London Knowledge Lab,Prof.Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University and Dr Ajit Jaokar co-author of 'Mobile web 2.0'. The speakers will explore how education has met the challenge of harnessing learning technology."

More from http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/beyond2008/

Event: E-Learning & Cakes

Do you fancy a coffee, some cake and a chance to find out what's going on in E-Learning here at Swansea? The next E-Learning and Cakes session will on Thursday 13th December at 11:00am in Room 703 on the 7th Floor of the Library building. It's not a formal meeting but a chance for anyone who is interested in using technology in learning to share what they are doing and find out what others are up to.

Event: Working collaboratively? Can wikis help?

Wikis? What are they? What have they got to do with education? How can they help with collaborative group work? In a similar vein to the recent session on blogs, the next Lunch & Learn is on wikis, what they are and how they might be useful in university education. The session will look at these issues and show examples. You'll also get a free lunch with very nice sandwiches.

E-mail Carol David in SDU to book a place.

Lunch & Learn
Tuesday 6th November 12:30-1:30pm
Staff Development Unit

Event: E-Learning & Cakes

Fancy a coffee, some cake and a chance to find out what's going on in E-Learning here at Swansea? The next E-Learning and Cakes session will on Friday 9th November at 11:00am in Room 703 on the 7th Floor of the Library building. It's not a formal meeting but a chance for anyone who is interested in using technology in learning to share what they are doing and find out what others are up to.

Event: Taking the Equal Opportunities legislation into the classroom

A Learning & Teaching Seminar from the Glamorgan Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching -

"Taking the Equal Opportunities legislation into the classroom: 10 things to think about in your teaching"

Beverley Bentley-Jones - Equalities Manager, Human Resources

21st November 2007, Time: 12.00 – 2.00

Venue: University of Glamorgan

This is not about treating everybody the same. The phrase "equal opportunities" trips readily off the tongue, sometimes shortened to "equal opps", to the extent that we sometimes forget what it means. For our purposes, it means ensuring that everyone in the classroom has the same opportunity to learn—and by extension, to get their qualification. In the end, it is up to us to provide those opportunities, but up to them to take them.

Glamorgan CELT events are open to all with an interest in Learning and Teaching and Equal Opportunities but prior booking is essential.

For more information on CELT seminars please visit our new website: http://celt.glam.ac.uk

E-Learning Showcase – come and find out what other people doing?

The next Lunch and Learn takes a slightly different approach from previous sessions. This time we’ll be sharing two experiences of e-learning in action.

Chris Jobling: Engineering -‘The Blackboard Quest’, which helps students explore the various features of Blackboard while at the same time getting them to actively review the course materials.

Lori Havard – ‘Letting the Genie Out’ - Creating successful interactive information literacy activities for busy medical students.

As usual there will be a free lunch. The avocado sandwiches were particularly nice last week :-)

Date: Tuesday 30th October

Time: 1-2pm

Location: Staff Development Unit

Event: What has blogging got to do with learning and teaching?

Blogs? Blogging? RSS? You may well have heard of these and sometimes it may seem, to paraphrase Bill Clinton, that even my dog has a blog. You may be asking ‘how do they actually work and what use might they have in higher education?’ The next Lunch & Learn session, as well as providing you with get a free lunch, will look at these questions and show some examples of blogs & blogging being used here at Swansea.

Lunch and Learn: Enter the Blogosphere
Friday 19th October 1.00pm to 2.00pm
Staff Development Unit

E-Learning & Cakes

Fancy a coffee, some cake and a chance to find out what's going on in E-Learning here at Swansea? The next E-Learning and Cakes session will be tomorrow – Friday 22^nd June at 11:00am in Room 703 on the 7th Floor of the Library building. It's not a formal meeting but a chance for anyone who is interested in using technology in learning to share what they are doing and find out what others are up to.

Assessment design for learner responsibility

Assessment comes in many different packages, it can be formative or summative, group or individual, assessment can be traditional - for example essay writing and exams, or it may include the assessment of Blogs, Wiki's, ePortfolios. There are a variety of different activities which can be assessed.

At the end of the month (29th - 31st May 2007) there is a Free online conference sponsered by the REAP (Re-engineering Assessment Practices) Project, about Assessment design for learner responsibility.

Focusing on assessment FOR learning in tertiary education the conference has three themes to be addressed through keynotes, case studies and structured discussions.

1. Assessment and the first year experience
2. Great designs for assessment
3. Institutional strategies (designs) for assessment

Topics include: "A Wikied Assessment Strategy", "Using wikis for summative and formative assessment", "Collaborative Assessment Using Clickers", "Formative assessment in a professional doctorate context: developing identities as researchers", and much much more.

This looks like a very interesting event, so if your interested in Assessment, it may well be worth signing up for. But get in quick registration closes on the 18th of May.

Click here to register

JISC Online Conference: Innovating e-learning 2007

This years Jisc Online Innovating eLearning conference will be held from the 11th - 14th of June(2007).

At a cost of £50, this jammed packed conference sounds like its full of interesting topics, including personal technologies, e-portfolios, blogging and lifelong learning.

Innovating e-Learning - Institutional Transformation and Supporting Lifelong Learning

"The conference focuses on the potential of e-learning in transforming practice within institutions and in supporting lifelong learning. The keynote presenters will offer a rich variety of perspectives on these two themes:

Theme 1: Institutional transformation Day 1: Terry Mayes, Emeritus Professor, Glasgow Caledonian University, and Day 2: Dr John Guy, Principal, and Dr Mike Docker, Director, ICLT, the Sixth Form College, Farnborough

Theme 2: Supporting Lifelong Learning, introduced by Robin Mason, Professor of Educational Technology at The Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University

The concluding presentation will be given by Oleg Liber, Professor of e-Learning and Director of the Research Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS), University of Bolton.

As well as these keynote presenters, we have several other papers and sessions which we think will make for an exciting and useful programme. The full programme (and booking information) can be seen at:

www.jisc.ac.uk/elp_conference07

As last year, the conference will be open for a week for pre-conference reading, from the 4th June. The conference itself will run from 11-14 June and will then remain open for viewing for a full month, until 15 July."

Information literacy: enabling users in Higher Education

Sharon Markless of King’s College London will be speaking about - Information literacy: enabling users in Higher Education

Date - Thursday May 10th , 10.30am – 5.00pm
Venue - Seminar Room, Library & Information Centre, Swansea University.

She will cover the following topics -

Information literacy: more than a shopping list of skills?
What conception of IL do you want to project? Do you need an agreed framework – or any framework? How might you use a model of IL?

How do students learn to be information literate? 1
Key learning principles underpinning on-line or face-to-face interventions
Styles and patterns of information-seeking

How do students learn to be information literate? 2
What does the technology do best in supporting/enhancing learning?
The range of on-line learning activities
Linking to the curriculum

What has worked for you?
Sharing specific examples of sessions/programmes/collaborations that have worked well. How do you know what difference they made?

Levels of collaboration (including assessment)
Generic versus discipline-specific material
Stand alone versus embedded IL


To book a place please email:Michele.davies@swan.ac.uk