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![Supervision, tutorials and training workshops
with Masters and PhD students
Adobe Connect collaboration environment
Examples:
BDRA PhD research training workshop - 18 Feb 2013
Student presentations
https://connect.le.ac.uk/p3f01oklchl/
APG process (Dr Tracey Simmons) [21 minutes, 43 minutes]
https://connect.le.ac.uk/p3z7f4cx746/
Writing early, writing regularly (Prof David Hawkridge) and Framing your study (Dr Chris Comber)
https://connect.le.ac.uk/p87zdsculun/ [I hr 41 mins]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/edirisinghamediaandcomm20feb2013-130220034123-phpapp01/75/Technology-to-support-learning-at-Leicester_Edirisingha_20Feb2013-21-2048.jpg)
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Technology to support learning at Leicester_Edirisingha_20Feb2013
The document discusses various technologies supporting learning at the University of Leicester, focusing on innovative tools like iPad apps for learners in conflict zones, digital archives for historical material, and podcasting for educational purposes. It highlights projects like the My Leicestershire Digital Archive and the Second Life Swift Project, along with resources for creating and using podcasts in learning. Additionally, it covers the use of Adobe Connect for remote participation in supervision and training workshops.
Technology to support learning at Leicester_Edirisingha_20Feb2013
- 1. Technologies to support learning at Leicester Dr Palitha Edirisingha Beyond Distance Research Alliance University of Leicester, UK 20 Feb 2013 Department of Media and Communication MS3010
- 2. Our plan… • Whowe are and what we do: our research and teaching • Tablets and Apps.. • ‘Past’ Forward: digitising the past for future learners • Second Life • All about the Voice: podcasting • Getting connected: Adobe Connect for remote participation and collaboration
- 3. Who we are… what we do…
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- 5. Delivering a courseto learners in conflict zones through an iPad App Department of Criminology, University of Leicester Website: http://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2012/march/criminology-pilots-use-of-ipads-and- apps-to-aid-learning-in-conflict-zones YouTube video (3 ½ minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILB5gX4w7vI Article in the Guardian newspaper http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/feb/18/distance-learning-through- technology
- 6. ‘Past’ Forward: digitising historicalmaterial for future learners
- 7. My Leicestershire DigitalArchive (MLDA) http://myleicestershire.org.uk An electronic collection of photographs, trade directories, film, oral history and books on the history of Leicester and Leicestershire. Materials have been provided, digitised and catalogued by a partnership between BBC Radio Leicester East Midlands Oral History Archive Leicestershire Industrial History Society Media Archive for Central England Rothley Heritage Trust, Individual local historians, and the University of Leicester. Example search “Wright's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1880”
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- 10. SWIFT Project Project website at: http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/swift YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMfHZUNpZY
- 11. All about the(recorded) Voice: podcasting
- 12. A podcast is •a digital media file • that plays sound (or sound and visuals) • made available from a website (via the internet, VLE) • can be opened and / or downloaded and played on a computer, and / or • downloaded from a website (e.g., VLE) to be played on a portable digital player (Salmon et al., 2008, p. 20)
- 13. Examples of podcastingat Leicester Professor John Fothergill, Engineering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2_1WkXhbTk Dr Ray Randall, Occupational Psychology http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research- alliance/projects/duckling Student-created podcasts http://www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/startinguni/ More resources here www.impala.ac.uk And here www.podcastingforlearning.com
- 14. Podcasting to supportstudent learning Learning activities Guidance and support New possibilities Learning on location through technology Listening to sound, Improve distance voice and learning learner experience
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- 17. Length of apodcast 2 minutes 6 minutes 2 minutes Beginning Middle End
- 18. Recording and editingsoftware
- 19. Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Lameencoder http://lame.sourceforge.net/ Appendix: How to create podcasts – practitioner’s guide (pp. 188 - 204)
- 20. Getting connected: Adobe Connect for remote participation and collaboration
- 21. Supervision, tutorials andtraining workshops with Masters and PhD students Adobe Connect collaboration environment Examples: BDRA PhD research training workshop - 18 Feb 2013 Student presentations https://connect.le.ac.uk/p3f01oklchl/ APG process (Dr Tracey Simmons) [21 minutes, 43 minutes] https://connect.le.ac.uk/p3z7f4cx746/ Writing early, writing regularly (Prof David Hawkridge) and Framing your study (Dr Chris Comber) https://connect.le.ac.uk/p87zdsculun/ [I hr 41 mins]
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