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— This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — Yesterday was the official launch of the Open Wide and Step Inside project. It was so great to see so many people there, and the film was very well received by all!
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Motivation, confidence, enjoyment, engagement, immersion, are all words that can be used to highlight what a good Game Based Learning (GBL) resource can bring to the user in a given subject. Over the last decade users have become accustomed to varying ways to play games in general. Desktop PC’s and bespoke consoles still arguably offer…
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— This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — The Plymouth University DLE project, switching from Sharepoint to Moodle, reached its successful completion in December 2014 and all associated support has been merged with ‘Business as Usual’ support structures. However, due to the ongoing and evolving changes to our programmes, the nature and frequency of…
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Did you know that Moodle has an inbuilt quiz editor which will enable you to create polished online assessments to complement and enhance both the student learning experience and deliver powerful metrics which can feed in to learning analytics at department, school, faculty or university wide level? Using online assessment can be a way of…
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New design released for Mobile with Plymouth University. The official Plymouth University app allows you to quickly access your timetable, the Digital Learning Environment (DLE), find available PCs in our open access suites plus much much more. Download now for iOS or Android. Alternatively, if you’re a Windows Phone user you can enjoy the same…
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— This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — Rob and I were tweeting all throughout the Assessment and Technology in Healthcare Education Conference (#ATHEC) yesterday. We managed to create nearly 60 tweets, and you can view all of them here, but below is a round-up of some of the best points raised throughout the…
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— This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — On the 1st October, new laws surrounding copyright were finalised that aim to provide a more balanced approach to copyright in education to better fit our practices in the digital age. The agreed ‘exceptions’ that have always allowed us to use some copyrighted materials in teaching…
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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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— 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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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — Event Date: December 10, 2014 Location – Jurys Inn Plymouth A joint (free) event hosted by CAMERA, TELMeD and PedRIO exploring and advancing the understanding and application of information technology to the assessment process. The conference will be of particular interest to those involved in the pedagogic and technical…
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Some tools and activities within Moodle enable users to receive notifications. These can be useful for monitoring activity in an area or task, and can provide useful information or prompts for both lecturers and students. Subscribing to such activities also eliminates the need to regularly check for posts or submissions, as notifications are automatically generated…
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Back in January Learning Technologists piloted a new method of providing CPD. DigiThings was a self-directed, peer-mentored online programme that aimed to support staff with teaching and research responsibilities to explore and engage with a range of different presentation tools and techniques. It was adapted from Dr Helen Webster’s ‘23Things for Digital Humanities‘ (DH23Things) course…
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When smartphones first appeared on the market, it was all about making them as small as possible, allowing them to be easily carried with one hand and fit in any pocket or bag. However over the last few years companies seem to have focused on making the thickness of the device thinner but the…
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— This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — After all of the characters had been developed and animated, the final tweaks to the IVT project could be made. These final changes were designed to help add realism to the film, with subtle touches such as making the characters blink and interact with each other…
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In the past TELMeD have worked in collaboration with our medical students to produce learning resources as part of their doctors as teacher (DAT) student selected component module, ranging from podcasts, video to leaflets and posters. This year we started to work in partnership with of second year Plymouth Uni computing students. This process began…
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— This post was written by Luke McGowan — Yesterday’s feedback session with Wrigley’s associates and children seemed to be a success overall. The project still has some way to go with some technical glitches still persisting but overall the feedback we got was very positive with the majority of children reporting they ‘really liked…
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The world of technology enhanced learning is forever moving, and at an astonishing rate, so being able to innovate efficiently and effectively is vital. In order to keep up with radical changes, I was nominated by the team to attend a innovations workshop, delivered by Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong, to see what information we could pick up which…
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— This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — In June I attended the Jisc RSC South West TurboTEL conference in Bristol, and one piece of technology in particular, Nearpod, caught my eye, for both the ingenious uses the presenters were putting it to, and the possibilities of it’s application. Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf…
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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — Event Date: July 23, 2014 Location – Copthorne hotel Plymouth (Buckland Suite) A joint free event hosted by CAMERA, TELMeD and Learning Layers exploring designing and supporting development of tools to support individual, team and cross-organisational learning. Click here to Register 09:00 Welcome and introduction 09:15 Learning Layers Introduction – Overview of the project, its…
