Learning Technologists @ Leeds

7th October 2013 Meeting

Overview

• Last Meeting Outcomes and Updates• A summary of ALT-C experiences• JISC RSC Yorkshire and Humber• BlackBoard Mobile App – Discussion and demonstration over academic and student

use• Response Systems Discussion• Introducing the Digital Learning Team• Community site and blog • Next meeting

Last Meeting Outcomes and Updates

James Little

Last Meeting Outcomes and Updates

1. MeetingsFeatures of face-to-face meetings to now include:• Standing agenda items to enable continued discussion and

revisiting between meetings• One person to talk to a theme (i.e. social media or VLE) per

meeting• Multiple people to help organise meetings• Different activities/balance between communication

information.• Report of each meeting sent round and created by a

different person/group each meeting

Last Meeting Outcomes and Updates

2. Informal lunchtime meetings to start3. Online meetings to be explored4. Contributions to blog – profiles and content

Aims for this year and progress1. Follow up on activity generated from within and outside the network by

posting a write up on the blog - starting2. Disseminate information top-down and bottom-up (to schools/faculties and

back up to committees BLTTIG, etc) – links with other teams3. Research into technology enhanced learning. Journal club or writing them.

Publish them – who would like to take forward4. Quarterly Newsletter from useful contributions to blog and meeting (using

Paperli?) - 5. Link to academics outside of network – Academic champions to invite 6. Knowing who's who in the network - starting

1. Extended profiles on blog with areas of interest2. Match membership of e-mail list to blog profiles

7. Make clear interests covered in the group (through meetings, blog activities)8. Phased introduction to blog and features - accelerate9. Create a genuine Community of Practice

Sharing events with the community:ALT-C Experiences

ALT-C Attendees

Connecting to new networks:About JISC Y&H RSC

Eddie Gulc - eLearning AdvisorJISC RSC Yorkshire and Humber

Themed topic:The VLE/Blackboard Mobile App

VLE Team

Themed topic:Response systems discussion

(Socrative/Tophat Monicle/QuestionPress/PollDaddy)

James Little

Discussion of Ideashttp://goo.gl/xZuQzt

or Paper

Connecting to new networks:Introducing the DLT Team

Carol Elston and Stephen Livesey

Community Site and Blog

All

Community Site and Blog

Update…• The blog/forums can act as communication channels

between activities across Learning Tech Network/Digital Learning Team and people in Faculty/School roles.– James and Stephen to coordinate this with respect to own teams.

• The forums in the group areas of the site are for internal UoL discussions (i.e. not public)

• The blog is internal but also outward facing (as demonstrated by examples from other institutions)

• The blog can be standalone on the site but also embedded in the SDDU and upcoming Digital Learning Team websites

Content for the blog - suggestions• Training Needs Analysis e.g. POWtoon –• New technology releases/discoveries (apps, software, web services)

with a guide to starting to use it• Hints and tips for specific programmes (or links to useful areas and

pages) e.g. e-learning heroes for Articulate • How groups currently use technology for their own purposes (case

study) – leading onto discussion over similar and alternative approaches.

• How to generate online interest• What Projects are others working on at the University / brief

outlines (link to casebook)• How-Tos• New policies and procedures that affect everyone• Briefings and trainings that are coming up• Feedback from LT Forum• Reports from events and conferences – i.e. MELSIG / WRLT• Updates on internal projects (i.e. FutureLearn)• Examples of things that you are particularly excited about – new

tools / how they’re being used, new tricks in current tools• Feedback on how/why a decisions around technology was made –

process. i.e. Why Storyline was picked to generate an ebook, impact upon accessibility, platform choice, types of interactivity.

• Use of technology / products with student feedback• Student practices and how we might enhancement (communication

preferences / collaboration methods)• Innovative examples and papers noticed elsewhere

• Calls/ Conference alerts (ALTC, etc)• Updates on network activities• Features technologies / approaches• Showcasing other content on the web• Sharing sector news• Events of interest (internal and external)• Social Media Management• Calendar of Events• Conference visits / training sessions• VLE Developments and related products (integrations such as

lecture capture)• E-Learning Conferences, Blackboard specific• Guide to using iPad pedagogically• Attendance at Events• Tips and tricks... • How tos• Projects.• New policies and procedures info/briefings.• Share experiences with each other... Discussion.• Links to content repositories. And repositories.• Content for student focus... Impact.• Student practices.... Communication preferences, • Reposting other content to blog.• How will this link to case study website.• News feeds.• Reading online journal club. New research.• About section.

Content for the blog – ALTC Report

Content for the blog – Filming Video

Content for the blog• Training Needs Analysis e.g. POWtoon –• New technology releases/discoveries (apps, software, web services)

with a guide to starting to use it• Hints and tips for specific programmes (or links to useful areas and

pages) e.g. e-learning heroes for Articulate • How groups currently use technology for their own purposes (case

study) – leading onto discussion over similar and alternative approaches.

• How to generate online interest• What Projects are others working on at the University / brief

outlines (link to casebook)• How-Tos• New policies and procedures that affect everyone• Briefings and trainings that are coming up• Feedback from LT Forum• Reports from events and conferences – i.e. MELSIG / WRLT• Updates on internal projects (i.e. FutureLearn)• Examples of things that you are particularly excited about – new

tools / how they’re being used, new tricks in current tools• Feedback on how/why a decisions around technology was made –

process. i.e. Why Storyline was picked to generate an ebook, impact upon accessibility, platform choice, types of interactivity.

• Use of technology / products with student feedback• Student practices and how we might enhancement (communication

preferences / collaboration methods)• Innovative examples and papers noticed elsewhere

• Calls/ Conference alerts (ALTC, etc)• Updates on network activities• Features technologies / approaches• Showcasing other content on the web• Sharing sector news• Events of interest (internal and external)• Social Media Management• Calendar of Events• Conference visits / training sessions• VLE Developments and related products (integrations such as

lecture capture)• E-Learning Conferences, Blackboard specific• Guide to using iPad pedagogically• Attendance at Events• Tips and tricks... • How tos• Projects.• New policies and procedures info/briefings.• Share experiences with each other... Discussion.• Links to content repositories. And repositories.• Content for student focus... Impact.• Student practices.... Communication preferences, • Reposting other content to blog.• How will this link to case study website.• News feeds.• Reading online journal club. New research.• About section.

Let’s continue…

Groups and Discussions

• Numerous groups setup

• Enable people self-creation

• Continue discussions – transfer some previous from email list.

Groups and Discussions

• Numerous groups setup

• Enable people self-creation

• Continue discussions – transfer some previous from email list.

Let’s continue…

Next Meeting(s)

• 2nd December 2013 2pm - 4pm TR1– Who would like to help organise the next

meeting?– Suggestions for topics?

• Informal lunchtime/after work meet up• Online meeting – theme based

Thank you

• Will circulate notes from this meeting via the Blog, Twitter and website.