{"id":5233,"date":"2016-05-17T07:40:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T07:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/asti\/?p=5233"},"modified":"2016-05-17T07:40:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T07:40:38","slug":"talking-tel-with-gary-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/talking-tel-with-gary-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking TEL with Gary Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gary Strong, <\/strong>Lecturer in Paramedic Practice in the\u00a0Faculty of Health and Human Sciences,\u00a0answers our TEL themed questions:<\/p>\n<p><b>What is your earliest memory of digital technology in the classroom?<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learning to create PowerPoint presentations in the early 2000s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Which digital technology do you use most in your teaching\/work practice, and why?<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PowerPoint, Moodle. Convenience as much as anything. I am under-utilising Moodle at present and would like to do much more with discussions, quizzes, pre-recorded lectures, interactive video based activities, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What benefits do you think this technology has for students? what student\/user feedback have you had about this digital technology?<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students seem to like having a PowerPoint to refer to, and they watch skills videos, but otherwise I have been surprised by a certain reluctance to engage with other digital media for learning. This was not the case at the previous HEI where I worked and it would be interesting to explore the reasons. Perhaps it is all part of a cultural shift which takes longer in some places than in others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Which technologies have you found to be the most influential over the past 10 years in your teaching?<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ubiquitous PowerPoint, but for me, this is much more influential when used in conjunction with audio and video narration. Also online asynchronous discussion, a very powerful learning tool if used well. I think we have not yet realised the potential for both formative and summative activities based in online structured discussion. At least, not in my discipline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What do you predict will be the biggest or most exciting development in education\/digital technologies over the next 5 years?<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some form of mobile device friendly learning platform which allows fast easy access to learning material and the co-creation of learning experiences. But then I think we already have this, we just need to use it more effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5235\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/asti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-17-at-08.45.10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5235 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/asti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-17-at-08.45.10-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Strong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Strong, Lecturer in Paramedic Practice in the\u00a0Faculty of Health and Human Sciences,\u00a0answers our TEL themed questions: What is your earliest memory of digital technology in the classroom? 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