Using Screencasts for Teaching and Learning
Last week I ran a workshop on Using Screencasts to Enhance Teaching and Learning. Here’s a summary of what we covered. What is screencasting? A screencast is a digital video recording that captures actions taking place on a computer desktop. Screencasts, which often contain voice-over narration, are useful for demonstrating how to use specific operating […]
The Durham 15th Annual Blackboard Users’ Conference
This Year’s Theme: Students as Partners I recently attended the 15th annual Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference. This is organised and held at Durham University in the first week of January every year. The theme for this year’s conference was ‘Students as Partners’. As usual there was a range of different workshops and presentations […]
The Student Voice and a Framework for Learning Technology
photo credit: HikingArtist.com via photopin cc In a previous blog, reporting on the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference, I mentioned ‘student centred’ approaches to teaching and learning with technology. Another presentation at the conference highlighted research from Malcolm Murray and his colleagues at Durham University (Murray et al 2014) in which the student was at […]
Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference – new developments
photo credit: adesigna via photopin cc New developments for Blackboard I mentioned in an earlier post that Blackboard are becoming more responsive to their local markets. The ugly phrase they used to describe this is ‘countrification’. As a result of this several new features and changes to design were unveiled at the Blackboard Teaching […]
The Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference – two views of ‘learner-centred’
photo credit: ransomtech via photopin cc The idea of putting learners at the centre of learning was a theme that ran through many of the presentations, including the main Blackboard corporate presentations at the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference in Dublin at the beginning of May. However, I noticed two different views of ‘student-centred’ learning. […]
Leveraging Social Media
Starting to use social media tools like Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn or SlideShare if you’ve not used them before can be a hard road to walk. It isn’t necessarily about learning to use them but the feeling of learning to use them in an open space, where mistakes can be seen by everyone, could […]
Using Blackboard Announcements: How and Why
One feature of Blackboard that is nearly always overlooked is often the simplest and most effective: Announcements. I don’t know why this is as Announcements are, or should be, the main method for connecting with students and keeping them up to date with their learning journey. Note: this is as much for campus-based courses as […]
Report: “Providing viable and flexible technology enhanced learning solutions for an increasingly agile student community”
Date: May 3rd, 2013 Location: University of Derby Details: “Providing viable and flexible technology enhanced learning solutions for an increasingly agile student community”. This event was hosted as part of the Higher Education Academy’s Workshop and Seminar Series 2012/2013. From the beginning it was easy to see why this event had attracted so many leaders […]
Presentation: “Improving the Student Experience Through Blackboard in the College of Social Science”
In March 2013 Stephen and myself were invited to present to the Brown Bag Lunch seminar series on the enhancement of the student experience through Blackboard and Learning Technology (LT) in the College of Social Science. Accompanied by Korin Grant (Economics) and Matthew Higgins (Management) we presented the College model of LT support, and our […]
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