from Mark Tinney:
PowToon.com – This is a new online presentation tool which allows you to create navigable animated presentations or videos up to about 5 minutes in length (for the free version). There is a bit of a learning curve to getting used to them, but there are a number of templates which make the basics very easy. You can even publish them straight to youtube.
TED.com – I have talked about TED several times at these events, in part because it is that good. The site is full of great talks from experts in several fields and even better they also post some of the best and most inspiring videos from across the web. As if the site needed to get even better, it has. Ted has added TEded this is a portion of the site that allows you to create learning materials from any TED talk or YouTube video. Students can create a free account and you can track their results.
PollEverywhere.com – This is another website I have mentioned in several session, it is awesome and allows you to create quiz or poll questions that learners can respond to via text, or a unique web address you can create through the site, they can even respond via twitter.
QRStuff.com – This is the website I use to create QR codes, you know those funny –looking codes that you can scan with your phone and then pull up a website or a body of text of virtually any bit of information you want learners to have.
In one group I was able to look at Morfo Booth, this is an Apple app that allows you to take any picture of someone, that is face front and animate it, adding sound and even making your own video. This is great for learner projects, mini biographies or just a fun way to present information. My learners love it. (Also available for Android but possibly not yet in the UK --James)
Playbrighter.com – This is a quiz website (a game website really) that allows you to create groups of learners and quizzes (called missions on the site) for the learners to complete. Grades are kept, as is your question bank for the next time you want to use it. It is free to try, although after 10 quizzes it is a fee based site, but it is worth it I promise.
Sporcle.com - We didn’t look at this in either session, but I have done so in previous sessions, this is a quiz website as well, completely free and full of loads of brilliant prebuilt content and you can build your own. This is great for just a bit of fun as well as some serious learning.
We began each session by playing a game called hungry bat, which is available at this address
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Lightnin/1659457
Thank you for your time and warm welcome on Saturday, I hope you found the session useful. The key is try something new, and see if it works.
Friday, 8 March 2013
Mark’s bundle of coolness – ILT session (2 March Study Day)
Monday, 4 March 2013
Year 2 Study Day--2 March
No usual evaluation report this time, I'm afraid. I can only apologise for not having organised the collection of the forms efficiently enough, and the 24 forms we did collect were not sufficient to have any claim to be representative.
However, you can still read the contributions to the Question Time slot via Twitter (#pce2) and add any write-in comments you wish.
In particular, Shane tweeted thus with the information you were requesting about QTS/QTLS and IfL;
Links for...but as promised, we shall be circulating everyone with that information shortly.#PCE2: QTS/QTLS advice http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/careers/traininganddevelopment/qts/a00205922/qlts-guidance … &@IFL_Members membership http://www.ifl.ac.uk/membership/renew-now …
Thanks to everyone for their contributions to the day, and we hope you took away useful information and ideas for Unit 7.
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Second Year Study Day, 10 November, evaluation
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Tech. session; 10 November Study Day
Welcome to Mark's wind-up of the day!
Congeekulations if you arrived directly from scanning the QR image!
If you were reduced to typing in a URL to get here, then go to:
Go to www.tinyurl.com/awayday12 to complete a short survey which will be discussed in this afternoon's presentation
Please add to your paper evaluation of the day on Twitter @bedspace1.
Thanks. Enjoy.
Update from Mark: 12 November
Useful Websites
Flipping the Classroom
- http://www.khanacademy.org/
- http://Teded.com
- http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/teaching/resources/tools/xerte-online-toolkits.aspx
Cool Stuff
- http://www.stumbleupon.com/
- http://www.gapminder.org/
- http://www.ted.com
- http://www.benettonplay.com/toybox.php
- http://www.qrstuff.com
Assessment tools
Online Storage and collaboration
A list of Apps to consider and install:
This is a working list so if you have any to add please share.
Apple
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Android
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RED LASER – reads bar and QR
codes.
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QR CODE READER
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Put things off
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Assignment planner free
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Imovie – paid app, but great
movie editor.
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Magisto – Magical Video
editor
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Ianki flashcards - – Gapped
recall app that allows you to create flash cards on a system that learns what
you know and what you don’t.
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MemoDroid – Gapped recall
app that allows you to create flash cards on a system that learns what you
know and what you don’t.
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Google Drive or Gdrive – 5gb
of free online storage and allows you to create and edit Microsoft word,
excel and PowerPoint files.
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Google Drive – 5gb of free
online storage and allows you to create and edit Microsoft word, excel and
PowerPoint files.
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TED – Great talks from
remarkable people free to the world.
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TED – Great talks from
remarkable people free to the world.
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HD elements
The Elements (£4.99) –
awesome worth every penny.
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Elements – periodic table
and/or periodic droid
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Imathematics
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Mathematics
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A Level maths core 1 -
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Dropbox – 2gb of free online
storage.
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Morfo booth
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Lookout mobile – virus
security and theft tracking.
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Evernote – allows users to
create to-do-lists, take notes and record voice reminders.
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Evernote – allows users to
create to-do-lists, take notes and record voice reminders.
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Dropbox – 2gb of free online
storage.
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Color Note – a note taking
app that allows users to take notes and edit them on the go. Offers a sticky note environment, a
calendar and to-do-list options.
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Educreations interactive
Whiteboard – interactive recordable whiteboard.
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Sync Space – whileboard app – used to create
drawings and documents.
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Mobile Podcaster – (£1.49) –
podcast creator.
Iblug is free, but new so
unrated.
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Audioboo – a free web tool
where users can record their audio clips and share them with others.
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Idea flight – allows you to
send presentations to other users logged in on their ipads.
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Tape a talk – allows users
to record voice notes, voice memos and several other audio formats. You can even record when the display is
off.
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ITunes U
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AndroidMedia – a video
editing app for Android that allows its users to create and edit their videos
on the go.
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Revision App – The Ultimate
revision app.
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Minus – allows its users to
upload and share files between their Android devices and their computers.
50GB
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Khan Academy – Mobil access
to the Khan academy and all the educational videos available from Khan
academy.org.
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WiFi file transfer – allows
users to transfer files from an Android device to any other device on the
same WiFi network.
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Edmodo – this is a VLE
website which you can set up for your learners.
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AnyDo – allows users to
create to-do lists by speaking into their device.
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Mindjet - allows users to
create awesome mind maps and diagrams.
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Mindjet – allows users to
create awesome mind maps and diagrams.
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Qwiki – great app that talks
through Wikipedia articles in two minute videos.
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One Note – enables users to
take notes very easily and on the go. Windows live ID required.
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And the Survey results are here.
Monday, 8 October 2012
Evaluation for Year 1 Study Day: 6 October 2012
Here is the summary material from the evaluation questionnaires (102 returned).
I think Sue Cowley set a new record: 96% of you rated her session as "very stimulating".
And 86% of those who responded (which was roughly 80% of you, on best estimates) said you would be going away with "lots" of ideas to use, which goes up to 99% if you count those answering "some" as well.
And thanks for the kind remarks about the enthusiasm of the staff--but the success of the day was as much down to you, as participants. We hope this sets the tone for a great course community!
Sunday, 7 October 2012
Study Day, 6 October: technology to support learning and teaching.
Many thanks to Mark for a fantastic session, as ever!
We did this last year, too, with a slightly different--more PC-focused--selection of resources. You can read the write-up of that session here. I won't repeat that material; this time he was concentrating more on apps for mobile devices. Instead of students' smartphones and tablets being distractions and problems, he set out to show how they can be enlisted actively to promote learning.
Here is Mark's handout.
Resources to enhance teaching
He first introduced QR bar-codes, and their scanners: for Android, and for Apple. He showed how there is no big deal about generating them; a site such as www.qrstuff.com/ enables you to do that in seconds, and then embed them in handouts and presentations to direct students to an enormous rage of external online resources.
In particular, the codes he gave you took you to Polls Everywhere, where you can build polls for your students, and get instant feedback on their ideas, either via multiple choice or free-text answers. (Free, for maximum of 40 responses). Very useful for getting feedback on students' understanding of an idea.
Sporcle is another quiz tool. It already hosts more than 300,000 tests/games/quizzes but also allows you to develop your own. Mark showed how it can be used to support factual (rote) learning, and how its reporting screen can help you keep track of students' homework in that area.
He introduced us to Gapminder, an extraordinary achievement in the visualisation of data which makes statistics come alive, showing vividly as an example the impact of Mao's great famine on life expectancy in China in 1959.
...and to support your own learning on the course.
How to stop your dog eating your work... Mark suggested Dropbox, mentioned last year. It's still the most flexible "cloud-based" storage and backup solution, and the free version has ample capacity for course- and work-based storage. Microsoft has a similar utility in SkyDrive. Other solutions are also available.
Google Drive goes one stage further. It provides not only file storage in the cloud, but also cloud-based versions of the core office applications; you can do word-processing, and use spreadsheet and presentation packages, for free, and store your output on secure servers. It's also good for sharing documents with your students (so you can comment on assignment drafts, for example) and for creating wikis (collaborative projects on which several people can work, such as a presentation from your Interest Group).
Apart from storing your own work, you will need some way of keeping track of all the stuff you have read in the course of the course. There are many resource manager packages out there, ranging from basic bookmark lists to complex archiving systems--we referred to a couple last year. We (i.e. Mark and I, independently) have provisionally concluded that of all the free options, Evernote is probably the best suited to your needs, not least because of the range of platforms on which it runs.
Do get in touch with your other suggestions!
Friday, 28 September 2012
Particularly rich week on FE in TES
We do recommend the Times Educational Supplement--sign up for their notification email each week. This week has particularly rich pickings. And there are plenty of resources available, too
News
FE advice and news
Dearth may delay introduction of English Baccalaureate Certificates.
New initiatives could affect struggling colleges' core budgets.
Ofsted's Learner View website could even trigger inspections.
Where does this lecturer stand – he's working 40 hours a week but only being paid for 20.
Advice for this trainee on exactly what qualifications they need to teach in schools, as well as in FE colleges.
Practitioners recommend schemes of work, lesson plans and resources to help teach functional skills.
Advice on the qualifications needed to teach adult literacy.
Insight into what it's really like to work in FE.
Advice on working conditions and salary expectations.
Help is at hand to navigate your way though the maze of PTTLS, CTLLS and DTLLS.
FE resource collections
Resources covering carpentry, electrical and plumbing maintenance and building skills.
Communication skills, equality and diversity and childcare are all tackled in this resource collection.
Motor vehicle, aircraft and health and safety teaching resources suitable for BTEC, ABC and other vocational engineering courses.
Hair, beauty and nutrition teaching resources galore.
