Category: case studies
ELESIG webinar: Student Engagement Methods: a focus on the Nominal Group Technique
January 27th, 2012 at 03:01
ELESIG, the network for those interested in the learner experience of elearning, has a series of webinars on relevant topics and the latest webinar is an outcome from a project funded by one of ELESIG‘s Small Grants. Date: Wednesday, 29th February, 1-2pm (UK time) Location: Online (The URL will be sent to all registered attendees) [...]
LSRI Seminar: Tried and tested internet tools for language teachers in the secondary sector
November 17th, 2011 at 09:11
The LSRI have let us know about a seminar next week which may be of interest. José Picardo from Nottingham High School will be giving a seminar for the LSRI on “Tried and tested internet tools for language teachers in the secondary sector”: Tuesday November 22nd at 4.30 pm Summary: ICT has always been an [...]
The mouse is dead… ALT-C 2011 conference report
September 8th, 2011 at 03:09
At the ALT-C conference in Leeds yesterday I went to an interesting presentation by Dragos Ciobanu of Leeds University about the uses of the Xbox Kinect (and similar body-tracking) technology in teaching and learning. I guess you could say that it’s the ultimate in catering for the kinaesthetic learner! Dragos was keen for it to [...]
Maximising Online Resource Effectiveness
1 June 15th, 2011 at 09:06
I’ve been reading an interesting guide to good practice in “Maximising Online Resource Effectiveness”, useful for anyone creating online content, including, of course, learning content. Intended for those creating websites and web content, it covers the social web, intellectual property rights and open data. It has some “back to basics” advice on analysing audience, sensible [...]
Developing Anatomy resources with Xerte Online Toolkits
June 13th, 2011 at 09:06
The Medical School at the University of Nottingham had a number of Anatomy CAL packages, created in Authorware over a number of years. Due to their age and format they were not easy to update or support but they did contain relevant and useful content. There was a requirement for the packages to be reviewed [...]
Second METAL workshop on 22nd June 2011
June 8th, 2011 at 07:06
From Joel Feinstein University of Nottingham staff are invited to the second METAL workshop on 22nd June 2011 Are you interested in creating and using media to enhance your teaching, or are you already doing so? Do you want to learn from what others are doing or share your experiences? The METAL (Media Enhanced Teaching [...]
Interactive Pharmacy Webcasts: an update
June 6th, 2011 at 10:06
Following on from an earlier post, here, the Learning Technology Section has once again been supporting the interactive webcast lectures organised by Dr Matthew Boyd on behalf of the NDPF. There have been three lectures in total, the first in January, the second lecture in the series took place on May 17th at the London Road Hospital in [...]
Spirituality, syrup & sacred calendars
1 April 19th, 2011 at 06:04
Sacred Calendar: Pesach, Holger Zellentin Sacred Calendar: Pascha: Mary Cunningham http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8hFISt2eS8& Having thoroughly enjoyed the recent radio 4 series “History of the World in 100 Objects”, I was intrigued to look in recently on a filming session for the Department of Theology and Religious Studies new series called “Objects of Belief” . Al Mintey and Simon [...]
Creating learning materials online with Xerte Online Toolkits #1
April 6th, 2011 at 08:04
There are many tools available for creating e-learning materials. They range from incredibly sophisticated and expensive programs such as Toolbook, Articulate or Camtasia, suitable for the professional instructional designer creating full courses, particularly of the self-paced online training kind, to simple free or open source programs or online services with which anyone can create small [...]
Students using Xerte Online Toolkits
March 28th, 2011 at 01:03
Collaborative Learning Best Practice using Xerte Toolkit An excellent video showing Souad Kouachi’s students generating learning materials using Xerte Online Toolkits at Epping Forest College.