Guest post by Nicola Daniel: The Technology & Educational Development (TED) team led this month’s forum presenting and discussing various tools in use within SoI and other Schools.

The session started off with a ‘pecha kucha’ (20×20), headed by Matt Lingard – a presentation format which illustrated twenty ideas in twenty seconds, highlighting the work TED currently do.

Use of Audio & Video for Teaching & Assessment

Speaker: Connie Tse

Flipped learning – student given materials (pre-video lecture, for example) to look at outside of the lecture so that those materials can then be discussed back in the teaching room; enabling the session to become more interactive.

Lecture Capture – an audio/visual recording to enhance and extend existing instructional activities   Benefits include, an alternative when students miss lectures, an opportunity for content review and content for online course development.

Connie’s Audio & Video presentation

SCOF*: a tool for giving standardised feedback based on a scheme, customisable to specific submissions

(*Standardised Customisable Online Feedback)

Speaker: Ian Glover

An online tool to create customized feedback based on standard schemes, where teaching staff can quickly provide detailed feedback on common aspects.  The use of this tool can include links to useful resources, ensure consistency, can free up time to focus on other things and provide praise as well as criticism.

See SCOF page for further details

Edublogs: new City service for project logs, research dissemination, reflective journals, group working, personal & team websites.

Speaker: Matt Lingard

Edublogs (WordPress-powered) enables you to create and manage student and teacher blogs, providing information beyond the lecture theatre, engaging students in their learning and possibly extending collaboration with their peers.

Matt’s Edublogs presentation

 

 

 

 

 

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