Format for presentations at next year 1 Study Day

The heading links to a PowerPoint file for download.

At the Study Day, one of the Interest Group tasks (you may remember), is to report back to the rest of the group on the work you started in those groups at the first Study Day.

There is no obligation to do so via PowerPoint: but we know from experience how difficult it is to contain such presentations, if you do choose to use it. So if you do use PowerPoint, we have set up a template for you to use.*

It will help you to produce a five-minute presentation, based on 15 slides, each showing for 20 seconds and progressing automatically, which means that you will need to rehearse and practise the presentation. Download and save it, and then open it and run it as a slideshow, and all will become clear!


* It's not actually a template file, for reasons of flexibility, but you can use it as such. Just open it, delete the existing content, and replace with your own.

Graduation 2011

We can now confirm that Graduation will take place on 27 October this year, at the ecumenical Church of Christ the Cornerstone in Milton Keynes. You should get letters of invitation in August and two tickets per person.

No news yet of which ceremony (there are generally at least two) you will be graduating at, but you can book the date now, and pass it on.

From Kathryn Ecclestone

To everyone who attended Kathryn's session on Saturday--the link is to a brief article in the Times from last year which summarises her position.

Teaching with technology: from the Study Day on 5 March 11

Many thanks to Carole, Jon, Ian, Gary and Simon for their brilliant contributions to this half-plenary session! I promised to post the links and/or sources...

Carole's offering was based on Moodle; the system itself is free, but of course Castle's implementation of it and content based on it is protected, so I can't pass it on.

Jon's work is based on using the under-used interactive potential of PowerPoint (tm, blah) but we can't guarantee that the macros will work just as downloaded.

He recommended http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resources/ as a general resource,but go here and you will find his own material.

For the music-- http://www.televisiontunes.com/ is a good starting point.

And go to http://www.wordle.net/ to create word maps of any body of text.

Incidentally, Jon is leaving the Royal Navy at the end of the year and is hoping to take his skills to a college or university environment. To contact him with any queries, translate jongarthwaite510 (at) hotmail.com into a valid email address.

Ian's use of clickers in numeracy work with prisoners is set out here:

Matthews personal response systems

Gary's short but intensive presentation on the range of collaborative tools available, the support from expert communities, and ways in which well-established web tools such as Twitter can be harnessed for educational purposes:

Bedford

...and Simon brought it all together showing how free tools can be enlisted to create a DIY VLE;

Diy vle

Just in case the link to the demo does not work directly, it is here; http://diyvle.wikispaces.com