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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 […]
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— 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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Motion capture is used for many media formats we all interact and view every day. From computer games to film, it offers a unique way of providing immersion and an improved sense of ‘believability’ into what you are looking at. This technology is improving all the time as it fundamentally requires good camera’s, sensors, a […]
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— This post was written by Luke McGowan — I’m happy to confirm that we will be presenting a conference workshop at AMEE 2014 this year on The Use of Virtual Patients to Promote Inter-Professional Learning. The team working on this project are Myself (Luke McGowan, Senior Learning Technologist) Matthew Jerreat (Clinical Lead Derriford Education Facility) […]
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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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The quiz activity enables users to create quizzes comprising questions of various types, a list of which can be found further down in this article. The user can allow the quiz to be attempted multiple times, with the questions shuffled or randomly selected from the question bank. A time limit may be set. Each attempt […]
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QR codes are used in many ways, you see them on billboards, in shop windows, bus stops and even on salt packets! All of the above are usually for commercial purposes and simply link to a website. The most exciting a QR code gets is to enter a competition, which again is effectively a web […]
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Following a few meetings to discuss progress and future developments, the decision has been taken to start gathering some early feedback from the project. There are a few key areas we want to target some basic gaming elements for this resource in order for the content to be as absorbing as possible and therefore engage […]
