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Congratulations to Ashley Spriggs, who won an iPad for her innovative use of the presentation software Prezi. Ashley was awarded the prize by BU’s Vice-Chancellor John Vinney for her winning entry in a competition led by the team behind the TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) Toolkit – BU’s online self-help guide to technology in teaching. The… Read more » about Ashley Spriggs wins the ‘How do you use yours?’ competition
The Fusion project, Students as Trainers, will very shortly be delivering help and support to staff who have requested assistance with digital skills, for example social media, graphics, using PCs, Macs and tablets. If you are interested in participating in this pilot project that ends in July, you can sign up here. We will report… Read more » about Students as trainers – about to start delivering support for staff
For the session on MOOCs next Wednesday, we are planning to use the new Collaborate application to allow people to access the session live from their own computers, wherever you are (so long as you have an internet connection and Chrome!). This is the first time we will try using Collaborate in this way. If… Read more » about Can’t attend the MOOC session in person? Join us online
A MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) is a model for delivering online learning material to anyone who wants to sign up for the course. Usually, there is no limit on the number of people who can sign up for a MOOC. Figures suggest that 25 million people have signed up for MOOCs in the last… Read more » about MOOCs – an introduction
A 4 minutes update on work within the TEL theme from David Biggins from yesterday’s CEL AwayDay. Click here to view the video.
Audience Response Systems such as TurningPoint and Mentimeter are being used across the University in the Faculties for teaching and learning and in Professional Services to capture electronic feedback. We are undertaking a review of audience response systems in the next 3 months to determine an appropriate solution for BU. In order to help us… Read more » about What do you need from an audience response system?
Last week saw the commencement of a trial of the virtual classroom application from Blackboard called Collaborate. Collaborate allows you to create virtual spaces to which you can invite students and colleagues and share video, audio, documents (PSFs, images and PowerPoints) and a whiteboard. If you use the Chrome browser to access Collaborate, you can… Read more » about Trialling the virtual classroom
Mentimeter is an internet-based audience response tool that you may have seen in the TEL Toolkit. It is similar to TurningPoint in that questions are prepared in advance and then answered by students in lectures and seminars. Where Mentimeter differs from the current version of TurningPoint that BU uses is in the device used by… Read more » about Seeking 5 testers for Mentimeter
At yesterday’s TEL Strategy Forum, the 12 submissions were reviewed and judged by the Forum members. The winning entry was decided upon but only after a great deal of debate and discussion. An iPad will be awarded to the winner at the forthcoming ceremony. The entries covered many of the tools in the TEL Toolkit… Read more » about Judging of the ‘How do you use yours’ competition
For the digital skills self-assessment questionnaire, we currently have 150 responses. A big thank you to all those people who have completed the questionnaire since it was launched at the beginning of February. We would ideally like all academic staff to complete the survey so can you spare 15 minutes to help us please? Completing… Read more » about 150 responses and counting
