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Using Wikis with Pragmatic Assessment
Presenter: Karin Barac, Learning Designer, on behalf Dr Alan Roberts, Faculty of Education
Time: 1:30pm – 2:00pm, F705
As universities seek to address the notion of the knowledge worker/learner, reconciling pedagogical approaches and assessment demands can prove particularly challenging. This paper discusses an assessment approach trialled within a unit of a pre-service teachers’ course at a large a metropolitan university in Australia. Team-based learning was optimised through integrating a collaborative wiki technology. Simultaneously individual understanding and expertise was emphasised through the requirement of a summary concept map being developed by each individual.
Audio Recorder – Record and Publish Your Lecture
Presenter: Dennis Clark, Integrated Help Services
Time: 10:00am – 10:30am, F704
Using the Audio Recorder on the PC Desktop you can now record your audio complete with the screen capture of the PC and provide it to the students on Blackboard as a Mediasite Presentation.
Making your life easier: knowing where to direct students for academic skills support
Presenter: Caroline Cottman, Learning & Teaching Consultant on behalf of the Academic Skills Advisors
Time: 11:00am – 11:30am, F704
Do you know the range of services available at QUT to assist students with their academic skills?
You don't have to be the source of all support for students, sometimes it is the best option to direct them to other services.
This brief presentation will introduce you to the tiered approach to student academic support and highlight some quick techniques that might be useful to integrate into your classes.
A first stop for students should be the KickStart site at www.kickstart.qut.edu.au
Active Strategies for Tutorials
Presenters: Caroline Cottman and Malcolm Pumpa, Learning & Teaching Consultants
Time: 12:00pm – 12:30pm, F705
This short presentation will cover two strategies to actively engage students in small group settings.
It is asample ofthe staff development workshop sessions available which examine the range of strategies to promote critical thinking and support student-centred teaching. You will take part in some activities andbe givenaccess to the online interactive tutorials.
QUT ePortfolio
Presenter: Kim Hauville
Time: 10:30am – 11:00am, F704
A presentation of the models of ePortfolio use at QUT and the range of resources available to support students and staff.
Creative Industries Communities of Practice and Blackboard Community Sites
Presenter: Greg Jenkins, Creative Industries Faculty
Time: 11:00pm – 11:30pm, F705
Communities of practice require a regular and reliable supply of current news and information about their participants and area of interest to remain vibrant. This project uses community sites in blackboard as an aggregation service for news, information and opportunities centred around each of the eight discipline areas within the faculty as well as Honours and Post Graduate Cohorts.
Using the announcements function of each community site instead of sending bulk emails sets up a “pull” information culture. This has several advantages over the “push“ culture – it does not proliferate email spam; it requires the participants take responsibility for finding information; and this in turn makes participants more likely to engage with the information.
Participants also have the ability to join communities other than their home discipline thus enhancing the chances of interdisciplinary communications and projects.
The Master of Information Management: Multi-Modal Delivery
Presenter: Dr Helen Partridge, Faculty of Information Technology
Time: 1:00pm – 1:30pm, F705
The Master of Information Management is a postgraduate degree offered in the Faculty of Information Technology. In 2008 the degree is being offered for the first time in both an internal and external mode. This presentation will discuss the “whole of course” strategy taken to provide a multi-modal delivery framework for the degree.
Making the most of your Learning Designer
Presenter: Jill Rowe, Learning Designer
Time: 1:00pm – 1:30pm, F705
Learning Designers have skills in developinglearning environments.Are you about to developa unit?Discussions with a Learning Designer in the planning stagewillexploreinteractive toolswhich supportthe students' engagement with learning.
Find out about the Awards, Grants and Fellowship opportunities: Australian Learning and Teaching Council
Presenter: Georgia Smeal, Service Manager, L & T Advancement
Time: 10:30am – 11:00am, F705
This session provides an opportunity to find out how you can start engaging with the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)
The session responds to the following frequently asked questions:
- What is the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)?
- What reward and recognition opportunities does ALTC offer?
- What is QUT's track record with ALTC?
- What is the TALSS Awards and Grants Service?
- Where can I get more information on ALTC opportunities?
Creative Industries: People and Practices and the QUT Wiki
Presenter: Jude Smith, Creative Industries Faculty
Time: 10:00am – 10:30am, F705
In the large first year unit, Creative Industries: People and Practices, advanced wiki technologies have been integrated into learning experiences to enhance students’ new media literacies and encourage peer networks within and across the disciplines of the Creative Industries. In this wiki environment, students were asked to profile established and emerging CI practitioners, publish their own professional identity statements, tag their entries to build connections with others through a wiki-based tag cloud, and comment on their peers’ intersecting interests and aspirations. The unit has also employed an online career planning module to support students explore their skills, interests, values and emerging professional aspirations.
Adrenalinise your Video – video for “real world” learning
Presenter: Peter Weyand, Learning Designer
Time: 12:00pm – 12:30pm, F704
So you have some “beaut” video, now what? With the advent of the digital camcorder came a whole new generation of Spielbergs and Kubericks. But what’s the point if your audience falls asleep? How can you judge if they have learned anything?
This session looks at the questions: “How to I get the most out of my video? How do I make my video an effective learning tool?”
This discussion and demonstration shows how to convert your flat video into a worthwhile learning experience. We will explore how to use video to its fullest extent with a range of examples including ones that you can implement.
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