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  • Wooden letter tiles spell equality on a rainbow stripy background.

    Equality pledges: The Magic in the background!

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  • Feel good Friday!

    Our fantastic Student Digital Champions joined forces with the awesome PALS team (Peer Assisted Learning Scheme) at this Friday’s Feel Good Fair held in Rolle Marquee.  

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  • ATLAS Submission Viewer 2 

    (Improved assessment tools in PebblePad)  The ATLAS Submission Viewer 2 (SV2) is the full suite of assessment functionality, plus an improved user experience recently released by PebblePad.  It concludes a series of releases for the individual components and represents a huge leap forward for assessors in PebblePad.  As a result of the improved interface and functionality, as […]

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  • — This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — Is it possible to remain innovative through a centralised organisational management structure? Drawing a parallel to a centralised and decentralised economy, Qian and Xu (1992) argued that screening mechanism for innovative projects within a centralised system is highly bureaucratic and delays innovation. More importantly it leads […]

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  • — This post was written by Luke McGowan — Recently we were really pleased to learn that the Open Wide and Step Inside (OWSI) project that TELMeD worked on with PDSE had received a second round of funding. This is obviously great news, and reaffirms the value and impact that the project is having. Nice to know, since it […]

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  • Improving your memory

    — This post was written by Tim Wheeler — RECAP Repetition , exaggeration, chunking, association, pictures. Repetition Ever been told in school repeat after me, well teachers have known this for ever. Have you ever had an ear worm that just won’t go away, this is because of repetition, songs are made that way, having […]

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  • This blog post was created as a result of viewing a tutorial on Preventing Scope Creep by Terri Wagner. When starting any type of project, it is important to understand the goals and outcomes expected of the client whilst trying to gain maximum understanding of what would benefit the end user most. The difficulty with […]

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  • — This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — It was interesting to see how they bought a whole new gaming perspective to our usual methods of designing and implementing eLearning, and how we learned to compromise our approaches to create a simulation module that involved all the good pedagogical principles of eLearning, with the […]

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  • — This post was written by Luke McGowan — Great news, we’re really pleased to be able to announce that the ‘Open Wide and Step Inside’ immersive vision theatre project is now live and had its first official showing to school children today. It went really well and feedback from the staff and children was […]

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  • Music for the IVT project

    — This post was written by Luke McGowan — Finding the right music for the IVT project has proved  more difficult than initially expected. Plymouth Music Zone have provided us with the Brushing Song (which everyone in the TELMeD office now knows off by heart!). However we needed more music to accompany  different scenes. There […]

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  • Email etiquette

    — This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — (This post follows on from AC’s previous post on Email Overload). It has recently been reported that France had banned work emails after 6pm in an effort to stop working life intruding into personal life. Whilst this turned out to be not entirely true, (a labour […]

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  • — This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — The root cause of the e-mail overload problem is us, our powerful psychological tendencies. Fear and uncertainty and/or the need for instant gratification are powerful drivers for constantly checking one‟s e-mail. #1: Lack of prioritisation  Fast response to important matters that require your decision. We tend […]

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  • — This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — Medical practitioners now collect a range of information about their professional practice for their appraisal and revalidation process. One component of this is multisource feedback (MSF) from patients and colleagues. Little is known about how GP appraisers interpret such feedback and use it within the doctor’s […]

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  • Equality pledges: The Magic in the background!

    Wooden letter tiles spell equality on a rainbow stripy background.

    Equality pledges: The Magic in the background!

  • Feel good Friday!

    Our fantastic Student Digital Champions joined forces with the awesome PALS team (Peer Assisted Learning Scheme) at this Friday’s Feel Good Fair held in Rolle Marquee.  

  • ATLAS Submission Viewer 2 

    (Improved assessment tools in PebblePad)  The ATLAS Submission Viewer 2 (SV2) is the full suite of assessment functionality, plus an improved user experience recently released by PebblePad.  It concludes a series of releases for the individual components and represents a huge leap forward for assessors in PebblePad.  As a result of the improved interface and functionality, as […]

  • Innovation and centralisation: A myth

    — This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — Is it possible to remain innovative through a centralised organisational management structure? Drawing a parallel to a centralised and decentralised economy, Qian and Xu (1992) argued that screening mechanism for innovative projects within a centralised system is highly bureaucratic and delays innovation. More importantly it leads […]

  • Immersive Vision Theatre (OWSI) Project: Impact So Far

    — This post was written by Luke McGowan — Recently we were really pleased to learn that the Open Wide and Step Inside (OWSI) project that TELMeD worked on with PDSE had received a second round of funding. This is obviously great news, and reaffirms the value and impact that the project is having. Nice to know, since it […]

  • Improving your memory

    — This post was written by Tim Wheeler — RECAP Repetition , exaggeration, chunking, association, pictures. Repetition Ever been told in school repeat after me, well teachers have known this for ever. Have you ever had an ear worm that just won’t go away, this is because of repetition, songs are made that way, having […]

  • The theory of preventing project scope creep and its key factors

    This blog post was created as a result of viewing a tutorial on Preventing Scope Creep by Terri Wagner. When starting any type of project, it is important to understand the goals and outcomes expected of the client whilst trying to gain maximum understanding of what would benefit the end user most. The difficulty with […]

  • Gamification of e-BUDDI Ebola PPE training module

    — This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — It was interesting to see how they bought a whole new gaming perspective to our usual methods of designing and implementing eLearning, and how we learned to compromise our approaches to create a simulation module that involved all the good pedagogical principles of eLearning, with the […]

  • Immersive Vision Theatre project for Dental goes live

    — This post was written by Luke McGowan — Great news, we’re really pleased to be able to announce that the ‘Open Wide and Step Inside’ immersive vision theatre project is now live and had its first official showing to school children today. It went really well and feedback from the staff and children was […]

  • Music for the IVT project

    — This post was written by Luke McGowan — Finding the right music for the IVT project has proved  more difficult than initially expected. Plymouth Music Zone have provided us with the Brushing Song (which everyone in the TELMeD office now knows off by heart!). However we needed more music to accompany  different scenes. There […]

  • Email etiquette

    — This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — (This post follows on from AC’s previous post on Email Overload). It has recently been reported that France had banned work emails after 6pm in an effort to stop working life intruding into personal life. Whilst this turned out to be not entirely true, (a labour […]

  • Email Overload: Only a symptom

    — This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — The root cause of the e-mail overload problem is us, our powerful psychological tendencies. Fear and uncertainty and/or the need for instant gratification are powerful drivers for constantly checking one‟s e-mail. #1: Lack of prioritisation  Fast response to important matters that require your decision. We tend […]

  • GP appraisers in the interpretation of multisource feedback

    — This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — Medical practitioners now collect a range of information about their professional practice for their appraisal and revalidation process. One component of this is multisource feedback (MSF) from patients and colleagues. Little is known about how GP appraisers interpret such feedback and use it within the doctor’s […]