rich media induction activity

induction activity to run across the creative arts and technology department, small groups of learners generating various media assets, uploading to a central space, to be accessible online, encourage reflection, facility to upload live moving image and audio [PS2]

Using gabcast to record podcasts is one of the easiest pieces of trchnology i have used - a great idea for students who are studying languages!

LSIS eCPD Launch Event

This blog will be used to allow delegates to post their thoughts on mobile learning from the workshop session been run by James Clay from Gloucestershire College.

Feedback on Flickr from the Hood 2.0 Workshop

Couple of videos feeding back on the use of Flickr.

From the Hood 2.0 Workshop.

psp whats that about

Uses of ipod and similar devices

Look cool whilst learning (eg on bus / train). Excellent output device for video, sound, 3D models, 'photos and so on. High disk capacity useful.

IPod applications

- video records of demonstrations of how to use scientific piece of equipment
- demonstration of OSCI skills for nurses/health professions
- short (5-10 min) summaries of principles presented in lectures
- identification of reference material in the field from images e.g. geologcal structures, plants

Uses of mobile technologies (in Snowdonia)

Recording of evidence for outdoor courses, for example the Duke of Edinburgh scheme. Opportunity to create media files audio/ video

umpc use

Asus eee - application as a mobile computing lab to creating learning spaces in faclities for computer use in areas where this is not normally available.

- placement students using them to maintain a portfolio when combined with a USB modem.

Group 81 (Sian, Manuella, Neil) Cheryl's gone - Qik time

To tell the truth we just cannot find any educational use of live videoing that cannot be done with offline video. Sorry.

Live video applications

• News reports - field trips - archaeological discoveries & capturing the excitement and spontaneous moments of discovery
  
• Opportunistic capture of random events
• Role playing - recording, sharing, comment & reflection
  
• Covert filming (?) - social activity but dubious legal standing
• Developing ideas of creative projects
• Gathering visual evidence for social research/hypotheses - lots of ethical issues
• Linking to stills on Flick'r, blogs and twitter type services to develop ideas for user created content
• Sports events and betting!!
  
• Teaching interviewing/presentation techniques
• Explaining visually

Twitter

Have a look at this paper for inspration?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2286799/Can-we-use-Twitter-for-educational-activities

Twitter and Micro blogging

• Book Reviews
• Reviews of pretty much anything. The requirement of brevity is a crucial and positive part of this
  
• Brainstorming in a distributed group
• Developing commentries, social collabortative interaction.
• News commentary, updating people on a changing environment

Group 80 (Cheryl, Sian, Manuella, Neil) - Using microblogs in eLearning - Twitter and Jaiku

- Finally you can learn and leave your mobile switched on!
- Feedback from students during a lecture!
- Gather group resources (quick referencing)
- Reflective learning
Unfortunately Jaiku was down so we could not continue :)
I wonder if students like blogging... I don't. But then again, these are microblogs. Slowly but surely, you WILL be assimilated.

Alt-C & Seaside Piers

Good idea to use Flickr to enable students who can go to the seaside eg Weston super Mare or Fleetwood can take pictures and then other students remote from the sea can use them as part of their learning.

The question that remains is how you build embed the picture into a personalised "learning pathway" with instruction / objectives together with assessment / feedback

Ian Nairn

Flickr feedback

• Geotagging for geology and location based studies
• Panaromic images where direction of camera is important to stitch together images
• Fashion + design - using Flickr's wider arts community to comment and feedback on student's work and for the students to make links out in the community wider than their peer group
• Re-use of images using CC search for presentations/use in learning materials
• Using the area tagging for annotating technical/medical diagrams
• Photography students - try to get an image on the "interestingness" search
• Caption competitions using annotations
  

Group 79 (Neil, Sian, Cheryl, Manuella) Benefits of Flickr in eLearning

- if students are made to feel at easewith legal issues of taking photos including other people's then they can do
- portfolios
- field work
- illustrations (visual clues) especially in tests including hotspot questions
- learning map reading
- tourist guide
- geography / location learning
- transferable skills
- collaborating across communities
- community studies

Using Flick'r for learning

• Field trips - linking GPS data to the images - change over time, sharing student material in groups, within groups and between groups
• Student induction - physical location of newcomers to institutions - navigation a new environment
• Introduction to new class mates - familiarisation
• Generate, gather, present and describe a bank of images which students now and in the future may legitimately use for purposes of projects, assessed work etc within the disciplines they are working in
• Digital story telling - sources for this process may be presented on Flick'r
• Developing collaborative ideas and processes - groups working together rather than individuals only presenting - groups/sets functionality and tagging protocols help to develop this e.g. use this tag if you have participated in our student conference altc2008
• Sharing ideas, understanding and interpretations with crowd tagging, folders and "showcase" presentations - exemplars of objects/images - demonstrating best practice
  
• Recording longitudinal processes - building projects, taking projects from planning to delivery with images illustrating stages...., decline and decay as well as evolution
• Present a version of a conference
  

Seesmic - from Rowland

This looks like an interesting way of allowing people to interact when they don't have the technology to use some of the video applications or these are blocked. (Of course they will need a web cam).

I am not convinced that it very useful when people can get together anyway but for those at a distance it may be both accessible and useful.

Hi James

I have used seesmic for student comms but not in a formal teaching envior. however, I hope to use it for on-line teaching to other parts of the world who only have basic ICT knowledge and equipment.

Seesmic - useful or not?

How useful is Seesmic? Do we need it? Who does it help? Is it just another gimmick?

It could be useful for students to share ideas - to reflect on what has been learnt - as part of collaborative learning.