3. Biggest teaching challenges
• Lack of time (4)
• Students engagement (4)
• Lack of infrastructure (3)
• Keeping up to date (3)
• Resistance in students and colleagues (2)
• Big classes, funding, distributed students,
reaching all students (1)
4. Biggest learning challenges
• Academic literacy, study skills,
underpreparedness, language (11)
• Juggling demands of family/work/academic
(5)
• Access to resources / technology (5)
• Engagement / motivation (1)
6. Confident users: MS Word, PowerPoint,
social networking , skype, SMS
Mixed: LMS, Twitter, social media, IM, mobile
technologies
Not confident: webbased documents, wikis, blogging, social bookmarking,
virtual worlds, cmaps, lecture capturing/podcasting, screencasting, digital
storytelling, clickers, eportfolios, OERs
7. Previous use of technology
• LMS 11 I have used Blackboard in my
teaching. I convene a module
where we use blended
• Mobile phone 3 teaching. On Blackboard we
use self assessments,
discussions, assignments,
• Google docs 2 quizzes, etc. Challenge has
been to get students to
participate in discussions
• Web2.0/social networking 2 online.
• Youtube videos 1
I started a FB page for my English
• Clickers 1 for Journalism students in 2008. I
liked that it was interactive but
did not like that I could not
• Podcasting 1 upload documents.
8. Expectations
Having a better understanding of what tools are available, having a better
understanding of how to use the tools. eg I'm on twitter but would never Support!
dream of tweeting anything because I don't know how. I'm handicapped
by anxiety and insecurities!
To learn to use a few tools which I can effectively incorporate in my teaching practices.
Less is more…
Learning about the possibilities for use of
technology to enhance my staff development
work. Exposure to hands-on use of certain
technologies and exposure to what people are
doing with it. Hands-on experience of using
technology in my own work.
Hands on & sharing of experiences / show and tell
9. Interest
• Concept and mindmapping (9)
• Google Docs (8)
• LMS, podcasting (7)
• Blogs (6)
• ePortfolios, mobile apps (5)
• OER, mobile technology, DST (4)
• PLE, presentation software, wikis,
bookmarking, virtual worlds (3)
