Are you teaching @ University of the Arts London? Would you like to explore how to use a variety of eLearning tools and techniques?
If so, please contact me and we can discuss this further – either in person or virtually.
Category: eLearning
NDLR Dublin
Earlier this year I attended the NDLR Fest with the ALTO Team @ Trinity College Science Gallery in Dublin.
This was a fascinating and inspirational display of a variety of Open Education Resource (OER) Projects.
The event was attended by approximately 268 attendees representing all subject disciples from all 21 partner institutions. A total of 103 watched the event online. 12 Project teams presented the outputs and experiences from the first round of LInC projects – these are available to view @ http://www.ndlr.ie/resources/ndlr_fest_2010.php.
The next UAL Learning Studio Event will take…
The next UAL Learning Studio Event will take place on Monday 23 May 2011 from 4.30 to 6.30 pm – this time in Room 418 at LCF’s John Princes Street.
It is open to anyone to join and participate in, whatever your role or current use or experience of learning technology. There will be a range of activities, and the approach is very informal – colleagues will simply be talking about how they are using a variety of approaches in their teaching and learning.
Monday’s event will include: Ollie Furlong sharing his recent findings on affordable options for lecture capture; Trams demonstrating hosted video editing and sharing solutions; Pete Cranston talking about the UAL Sandbox (a facility for staff to sample new tools & technologies); John Casey discussing ALTO; Chris Follows demonstrating Process Arts.
ALTO promotion – cupcake style!
A fun video I shot with John Casey and a Flip Cam at the recent ‘Bar Camp’ at LCC.
For more information about the ALTO Project have a look @ http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/alto/
‘Bar Camp’ @ LCC
I took part in the Learning Studio’s inaugural ‘Bar Camp’ event held @ LCC last week – Thursday 10th February. This was an informal, informative and very enjoyable event where practitioners from all over UAL shared their expertise and experience of using a variety of media in their teaching and learning. This included: the use of streaming video (in this case using simple Flip cams for filming); the Process Arts website – http://process.arts.ac.uk; Jackson Jessop’s website which houses a wealth of useful information about video production – http://www.thekitroom.net; production and distribution of screencasts using tools such as Camtasia, Jing and Camstudio; production and use of audio material; online publishing – using platforms such as Issuu http://issuu.com/. All very useful stuff with plenty of opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, kinesthetic learning – and having fun! (The latter evidenced by the videos produced by participants in the ‘documenting the cupcake decoration’ exercise :-)) Further information and videos also available @ http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/cup-cake-video
Online presentation tool
An interesting alternative to using PowerPoint which is well worth looking @ and was used to very good effect at Mike Kelly’s recent presentation on ePortfolios is Prezi.
I’ve opened up an account – and have been testing it recently.
One immediate benefit is the opportunity to get away from linear delivery which is somewhat enforced by the structure of PowerPoint.
Learning and Teaching Day review
The Learning and Teaching Day held last week @ LCF was extremely enjoyable and informative. The only downside was that there were so many interesting sessions and you cannot be everywhere @ once! (Need to work @ cloning myself! :-))
I managed to be at an interesting and entertaining presentation by Lindsay Jordan which was originally entitled ‘5 Quick Wins’ but was re-titled ‘2 1/2 Quick Wins’ due to the available time being cut 😉 Lindsay covered the use of online video, blogging and some social media in an entertaining and involving way to show was can be and is being done in this area in UAL.
This was swiftly followed by David Sims and Darren Raven from LCC who described and showed how blogs are being used as a PPD Tool by students – their informed enthusiasm and obvious expertise was infectious as was the impressive quality and variety of student blogs shown.
Mike Kelly’s presentation on an ePortfolio platform currently being tested by CLTAD / UAL was also very interesting and proved very popular with the audience – who now look forward to the pilot being rolled out.
Paul Lowe’s presentation on the ‘Learning Studio’ introduced UAL’s ‘MyCPD’ tool to his audience, as well as the concept of the ‘Learning Studio’ as a ‘Community of Practice’ for those working with eLearning tools in UAL. This was an enjoyable session which was interactive and collaborative from the start.
I also hear a rumour that further details and materials from some of the day’s presentations will be made available online soon …
John Jackson 