PowerPoint & Pecha Kucha

Might be a useful approach for future teaching and learning materials hence inclusion here... PowerPoint - e-learning, blended-learning, multimedia, PowerPoint.

E-Learning Session

Today I attended a pretty long but most definitely useful session run by a couple of guys from the University of Leicester.

They were from the Beyond Distance Research Alliance perhaps best known for its Media Zoo and Gilly Salmon.

Learnt a few useful things and they also affirmed some of my own best practice/e-learning experimentation.

Second Life as a partial answer?

If you've read the posts about the videos below (students holding up signs etc to convey impressions of how education isn't working for them) then is educational engagement via Second Life a partial answer? Well, maybe, but only partial. But here is a short positive video on just this issue. Go Go Joe!

Blogger/YouTube Worksheet

Following my success in the Economics Network Annual Learning and Teaching Awards 2007 I will be publishing a guide to just how I embedded the videos into my blog account.

Whilst the more technically inclined amongst you may be thinking it is easy I bear in mind that not everyone is technically minded. It is also important to think about the WHAT and WHY and not just the HOW.

JSWEC 2007 Swansea

Joint Social Work in Education conference (JSWEC) 2007.

I was there at the invitation of the Social Work and Policy Subject Centre, with whom I have an e-learning consultancy role. One of my jobs at the conference was to record video interviews with some of the keynote speakers and authors of key texts who were present at the conference. I was also working as an event photographer capturing lots of “goings on” and capturing some informal video footage for later use in some training materials.

There will be some formal video footage on the SWAP website in due course but I’ll also be putting together some short video montages using free software, and then showing people just how I did it, so that people can learn how to do it for themselves.

Oooh! Another Paper From Last Year!

Having seen the email about the JSIC eLearning publication when I logged on from home I arrived in work later in the morning to find a package for me. It was another set of conference proceedings and again I had a mention in it. Part of a joint paper with colleagues from the Social Work and Social Policy (SWAP) Subject Centre.

SWAP

Interestingly we are all attributed to the University of Southampton (location of the subject centre) which I don't mind but NTU might. Anyway it was a joint paper reflecting upon how a group of us had developed the role of e-Learning Champions as a method of disseminating e-learning knowledge into the discipline areas covered by SWAP.

The main point about this post and the last one is that it still surprises me how long it sometimes take things to roll through the system in academia (though it shouldn’t by now) but on the plus side you can suddenly get a couple of nice things out of the blue.