Staff and Departmental Development Unit

The following tabs will give you an idea of the multitude of stalls with new technologies and practical examples that will be available at the event.

We would like to demonstrate the iDecide tool, an interactive career decision making resource. We will be showcasing two different versions of the tool, one produced for medical undergraduates and one produced for undergraduates in the Faculty of Biological Sciences.  The two resources, although distinct, have a number of similarities mainly the inclusion of career-choice decision tree and a series of talking head video interviews.  For medicine these are with clinical specialists and for FBS these are Biological Science graduates who are currently working within industry, the public sector and academia.  There will be opportunity for attendees to look at and explore all parts of both resources.

Contact: Sue Bickerdike, Learning technologist, LIME

Answering any questions about Leeds for Life and showing the functionality on a more personal level.

Contact: Robyn Smith, Leeds for Life Student Ambassador

Find out more: https://leedsforlife.leeds.ac.uk/

We will be demonstrating aspects of Mobile Learning for students with SmartPhone or Tablet devices. The emphasis is about how these are used in Work-Based placements and how students use them to gather evidence, reflection and record assessments. We will show how content is delivered to the device and some examples of Apps for assessment, Apps for Learning and formats for e-books. The School of Medicine has created a site recommending apps appropriate for our students- http://www.medicine.leeds.ac.uk/mbchb/medicalApps.aspx   

Contact: Gareth Frith, Technology Enhanced Learning Manager, School of Medicine 

Contact: Kevin Lyons, Channel Support Manager, TeamMate Technical Furniture

Twitter is a free-to-use micro-blogging application that enables you to share your comments with the world in 140 characters. You can share comments, links, photos, videos, drive traffic (visitors) to your website or blog, find out the latest news, find people around the world to network with, and have a conversation.

We are using Twitter at Hands on the Future with a live Twitter stream displaying comments made by those discussing the event on a big screen. To have your tweets displayed, please add #hotf12 to your tweets. Not yet ventured into the Twitter-verse? Why not stop by and find out more!

Contact: Kirsten Thompson, Academic Staff Development Officer, SDDU

Find out more: http://twitter.com/HandsonFuture

Getting Started with Twitter: http://www.sddu.leeds.ac.uk/sddu-getting-started-with-twitter.html

We will be demonstrating some 360 degree virtual tours that are being developed to aid student orientation when they go out onto placements in the trust hospitals.  Participants will be able to explore the tours for themselves, both on a desktop computer and via their iphones or other mobile devices.

Contact: Sue Bickerdike, Learning Technologist, LIME

Find out more: http://tinyurl.com/stjamesiphone

How to make and edit a simple video.

Contact: Damian McDonald, Blended Learning Support Officer, Arts/ESSL/PVAC

We will be demonstrating our use of Adobe Connect to run EndNote webinars and EndNote drop-in sessions. Participants will have the opportunity to learn more about how to use Adobe Connect, including setting up rooms and utilising the various layout options.  As we have recorded our webinars participants can also watch extracts to get a flavour for how the webinar ran in real time. Participants are also welcome to explore the software for themselves as we will have a couple of laptops available at the stall.  

Contact: Jade Kelsall, Learning Technologist and Michelle Schneider, Academic Skills Development Officer, Skills@Library

We will demonstrate our “learning in a digital age” web pages for students which aim to help them develop their digital literacy skills. The web pages include information about: researching on the web, managing online information, using mobile apps for study, writing for the web, using Twitter for study, creating audio and video, digital copyright issues, online security, identity and privacy and netiquette. http://library.leeds.ac.uk/skills-learning-in-a-digital-age  

We will also show staff our web pages of teaching materials for digital literacy skills which can be adapted to suit their needs. These include resources used in workshops, as well as online activities which could be embedded in the VLE. http://library.leeds.ac.uk/skills-lecturers-learning-in-a-digital-age  

Contact: Helen Howard, Team Leader, Skills@Library

Enhancing Student Learning through use of Open Educational Resources

Do you want to enhance your students’ learning experience?   One way you might consider to do this is to use open educational resources (OERs), digitised resources such as podcasts, animations or problem solving exercises that have been made freely available by their creators for use by others, in your teaching.  We will be demonstrating how to find OERs in your discipline, be available to discuss the pros and cons of using OERs and to showcase an ongoing project to increase the use of OERs across the University.

Contact: Dr Dave Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience & Scientific Ethics, Institute of Membrane & Systems Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences

E-voting for anonymous feedback, concept testing, in-class discussion, and attendance monitoring

This stall will demonstrate the variety of ways in which ‘clickers’ (electronic voting handsets) are used with students in Physics.  It will include use with large cohorts for feedback on module and programme delivery, use in lectures for surveying prior knowledge (allowing lecture content to be tailored to the audience), use with large groups to test concept understanding and promote discussion. We are also planning to use them for attendance monitoring and information about this will also be presented.

Live demo | Come and try for yourself | Ask questions | Share your experience.

Contact: Dr. Alison Voice, Director of Student Education, Physics

Demonstrating the use of iPads in higher education, in particular selected apps for note taking, handout annotation, notes organisation and other productivity-enhancing apps.

A trial is currently taking place this semester at Leeds University Business School – 15 students are currently testing various makes of tablets running iOS and Android. You can follow the blog for the project at: http://ipadsontrial.wordpress.com

Relevant apps include:

• Evernote: http://www.evernote.com
• Quick Office Pro HD
• Good Reader
• Numbers
• Keynote
• Mindjet
• Downcast
• Feedler Pro

Contact: Nicolas Forsans, Principal Teaching Fellow, Leeds University Business School

We will bring along some assistive technologies as well as some iPad 2s, iPod Touches, some GPS devices and a laptop or two to show some online tools for teaching and learning. I will also have some literature, pens and other stuff from Techdis who will send a box of promo stuff for the stand.

Contact: Ali-Marie, eLearning Advisor, JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire and Humber

Lecturing with Adobe Connect and Papershow: first experiences

I will be demonstrating the use of Adobe Connect for recording lectures, where I use a combination of Powerpoint presentations and Papershow. I will show the set-up needed so visitors can try out for themselves, and share my experiences on ease-of-use and student feedback. I will also show some examples of recorded lectures, both successful and failed. I have been using these tools in my lectures for the past year.

Contacts: Steven Sourbron, Lecturer, LIGHT/School of Medicine

Find out more: www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html | www.papershow.com

Using tablet devices to enhance student learning and experience

Come along to try out tablet devices used by undergraduate students to enhance study opportunities.  Find out about the most well used and popular apps as judged by student participants in a recent research study.  Think about how you can support students who own a tablet device to extend their learning opportunities.  Think about how you integrate tablet devices into your teaching.

Contact: Neil Morris, Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience, Biological Sciences

Collating ideas on how best to design a Teaching space, by using a whiteboard and magnetic card, and capturing lecturers popular or new ideas, to help TTS design and equip new Teaching Spaces

Contact: Peter Richmond, Teaching Space Facilities Assistant, Teaching Technology Support (Estates)

CMALT: Continuing professional development for learning technology practitioners, teachers and researchers

CMALT is the Association for Learning Technology’s portfolio-based professional accreditation scheme developed to enable people whose work involves learning technology to:

• have their experience and capabilities certified by peers
• demonstrate that they are taking a committed and serious approach to their professional development

CMALT Holders are learning technology practitioners, teachers and researchers from across the educational and commercial sectors.

Contact: Kirsten Thompson and Dragos Ciobanu, Association for Learning Technology CMALT Development Group

Find out more: http://www.alt.ac.uk/get-involved/certified-membership

Challenge our team of 'experts' to answer your questions about using technology for student education, keeping your work legal, getting the technology to work in lecture theatres, the best tools for the job and much more. If we can't answer your question we'll know someone who can.

Dragster is an excellent drag and drop tool available free of charge to University of Leeds staff. Visit the Dragster website: http://www.webducate.net/products/dragster/

"Drawtivity is a e-learning tool for creating on-line activities that involve drawing and feedback. As an Open Education Resource authoring tool, Drawtivity facilitates the sharing, reuse and adaptation of these activities." http://www.drawtivity.org/

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) National is a collaboration between Cambridge Imaging Systems and the BUFVC (British Universities Film and Video Council) and is a simple to use, off-air recording system that maximises the potential offered by the ERA (Educational Recordings Act). Plus license recently purchased by the University.

BoB allows any authorised user to schedule a digital recording of any programme appearing on Freeview or free-to-air satellite services and add it to personalised playlist.  Recordings are selected from a key-word searchable, web-based programme guide, which displays 7 days of digital TV and radio broadcast information. All requested digital recordings are stored in a database that can be searched, accessed and tagged by any authorised BoB user.

Find out more: http://www.sddu.leeds.ac.uk/sddu-lt-tools.html

SDDU records short teaching sessions led by participants on ULTA 2 to enable peer feedback and support self reflection on teaching performance. Inspired by the JISC AFAL project, the project team have been funded by the JISC Leeds Building Capacity Project to record an audio of peer feedback comments using Livescribe smart pens and produce a digital file with feedback for distribution after the session.

Contact: Rebecca Dearden, Senior Academic Staff Development Officer, SDDU

Find out more: http://www.livescribe.com/uk/smartpen/echo/

Humbox and Open Lives

I will be showing to participants and discussing with them different ways of engaging with employers and with students through Open Educational Resources.  I will also talk to participants about JORUM UK as a way of participating in the UK institutional open space for sharing and showcasing learning resources.  

I am currently working in two projects which deal with open engagement in the HumBox repository (Arts and Humanities) in two different yet complementary ways. One is called Review and Endorsement of OERs by Graduate-Recruiting Employers and is funded by SCORE (funded by HEFCE). 

The second, called OpenLIVES , is being funded by JISC and focuses on the generation of open learning resources in connection to digitalisation of oral history interviews.  Both projects are key in my teaching and the teaching of many other colleagues across the sector in the UK. Employer engagement will allow me and many other academics to approach curricular employability in an open, case-based and multilateral way for the first time ever in the world. This engagement is generating valuable exemplars for HE and the possibility of professional and institutional showcasing.  At the same time, the OpenLIVES project focuses more on another high priority in the field of OERs: student involvement as active participants in their education. In particular, OpenLIVES will enable final year undergraduate students in a wide range of disciplines to become partners in research and make meaningful and tangible contributions to the global community. 

Contact: Antonio Martinez-Arboleda, Principal Teaching Fellow, Spanish and Portuguese

http://www8.open.ac.uk/score/

http://humbox.ac.uk/3066/

http://humbox.ac.uk/

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/content2011_2013/openlives.aspx

http://jorum.ac.uk/

http://humbox.ac.uk/3066/1/humbox.mp4

The following tabs will guide you through the presentations that we are very proud to announce for Hands on the Future 2012. Looking forward to seeing you attend all of them and sharing ideas with our colleagues who are presenting.

Presentation on the student use of Leeds for Life and the importance of its functionality throughout their degree, particularly focusing on how the first interaction students have with Leeds for Life, which is usually in their first personal tutor meeting, is the most important.

Will include:

• Demonstration of the different functions of the website, including the opportunities, living CV and the foundation pages.
• A bit about my/our personal use of Leeds for Life and what I think the benefits are
• A shameless plea to any personal tutors and departmental Leeds for Life administrators to keep their side of the bargain, as if students do not get a good introduction to Leeds for Life when they first start at Leeds, they tend to miss out on the more exciting and beneficial uses of it.

Contact: Robyn Smith, Leeds for Life Student Ambassador

Find out more: https://leedsforlife.leeds.ac.uk/

The presentation will tell the story of how Undergraduate Medical students are using Smartphones and Tablets to record reflection and assessment outcomes with Clinical staff whilst they are working in Hospitals and Primary care.

Contact: Gareth Frith, Technology Enhanced Learning Manager, School of Medicine 

Watch the presentation on LUTube 
(password-protected: please use your ISS username and password to access it)

This presentation will describe Open Educational Resources that have been developed in FBS by Learning Technologist Sue Bickerdike and several members of FBS staff funded by ADF grants.

Aimed predominantly at Y1 biological sciences, biochemistry and microbiology students, these multimedia resources cover a range of commonly used practical techniques, explaining the theoretical background, the equipment used, and how to tackle experiments using these techniques, and interpret the results obtained. The units include video, animation and still photography to illustrate the information, together with quizzes for self-testing.

While the resources were designed as OERs, and have been available for 18 months via the Leeds VLE and JORUM, they are now more readily available via the FBS website.

Contact: Sue Whittle, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Biological Sciences

Find out more: http://www.virtual-labs.leeds.ac.uk/index.php

Watch the presentation on LUTube 
(password-protected: please use your ISS username and password to access it)

This presentation will focus on how students can use social media as a tool to enhance their career development. It will cover the expansion of social media in recruitment and specifically how graduate recruiters are using it to engage with candidates before exploring how students can use it to research, network with and market themselves to potential employers.

Contact: Laura Trotter, Careers Consultant, Careers Centre

The use of screencasts in teaching anatomy. I will detail the production, student feedback and effect on exam performance.

Contact: James Pickering, Teaching Fellow in Anatomy, IMSB, FBS

CMALT: Continuing professional development for learning technology practitioners, teachers and researchers

CMALT is the Association for Learning Technology’s portfolio-based professional accreditation scheme developed to enable people whose work involves learning technology to:

• have their experience and capabilities certified by peers
• demonstrate that they are taking a committed and serious approach to their professional development 

CMALT Holders are learning technology practitioners, teachers and researchers from across the educational and commercial sectors. Come along to this short presentation to find out more about getting certified and the positive impact this can have on your own continuing professional development.

Contact: Kirsten Thompson, SDDU/ALT, CMALT Development Group and Catherine Bell, CMALT Assessor, LUBS

Find out more: http://www.alt.ac.uk/get-involved/certified-membership

From e-learning to e-teaching: using real-time online support to maximise our reach

The presentation will give an overview of how we have used Adobe Connect to deliver EndNote workshops to research students and staff at the University. We will briefly cover how the EndNote webinars were set up and facilitated. We will share our experience of running this type of session, particularly the advantages and potential pitfalls. The feedback gathered from the participants will be shared. Information about how we intend to use this software to deliver further teaching will also be discussed. 

Contact: Jade Kelsall, Learning Technologist and Michelle Schneider, Academic Skills Development Officer, Skills@Library

Watch the presentation on LUTube 
(password-protected: please use your ISS username and password to access it)