Learning, Teaching And Assessment In Higher Education

Andrew Middleton is joined by Vic Whittaker from the division of Education at Sheffield Hallam University. Vic explains why he thinks Tada has a useful place in the educator's toolkit. You can sign up for Tada at http://www.tada.com Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton attempts another podcast model. This is a short audio file model, easy to produce and suitable for many academic situations where tutors or students are needing to share on-going reflection - Thought for the day. The file was originally generated for project being run by Dan Schmid, host of Kidcast. You can find out more about Kidcast at: http://www.intelligenic.com/blog/ Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton is joined by academic colleagues who consider ideas for educational podcasting following an introduction to the technology. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

A short report from the Educause ELI Annual Meeting 2007 conference that has taken place in Atlanta, George, USA this week. A thread common to several sessions was how can HE keep up with the Net Gen Learner. The report references, * the conference program: http://www.educause.edu/Program/10824 * Father Google and Mother IM: Confessions of a Net Gen Learner - an article in Educause Review by Carie Wyndham: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0552.pdf * Chris Dede's session 'Emerging Educational Technologies and Neomillennial Learning Styles' can be found here: http://connect.educause.edu/blog/jcummings/chris_dede_on_emerging_technologies_and_neomillennial_learning_styles/16662 Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton considers what a Book Review would be like as a podcast. A review activity should encourage students to read and reflect upon the literature available to them and help them to develop a pool or collection of audio book reviews. In this way students are making a contribution not only to a resource used by their peers, but a resource that may be useful to those that follow in subsequent years. Here are some guiding principles for an audio book review. It should be, - short (less than 2 minutes) - provide information about the book and its stated aims - indicate the scope of the book - consider why it attracted the reviewer in the first place - provide one or two quotes - and comment on the style of the writer "This book review considers 'Writing for Broadcast Journalists' by Rick Thompson, published by Routledge in 2005. It is part of their Media Skills series and weighs in at 182 pages. Writing for Broadcast Journalists sets out to guide readers through the differences between written and s

Andrew Middleton introduces screencasting and how this technology can be simply and creatively used to produce innovative educational materials. Several pieces of software and other informtion are referenced in this episode - here are some links: ELI 7 Things you should know about screencasting: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7012.pdf; Camtasia Studio by TechSmith: http://www.techsmith.com/; Wink: www.debugmode.com/wink/; Windows Media Encoder: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx; CamStudio: http://www.camstudio.org/; Adobe Captivate: http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/; Visual learning ideas: A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods: http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton records a commutecast on the way to work reflecting on educational podcasting, research, and plans for the new year. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

The Creative Development Team at Sheffield Hallam University introduce and reflect upon the virtual world phenomenon known as Second Life and its potential as a learning environment. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton presents an audio poster entitled 'Educational Podcasting - 99 ideas for a-learning'. In this 2nd audio-poster episode he speaks to several colleagues in the Learning and IT Services department at Sheffield Hallam University. He asks them what ideas spring to mind when presented with some of the titles he has given to his ideas for educational podcasting. The hope is that before the end we find idea 100! Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton speaks to Nicky Joiner, Executive Officer for Academic Affairs at Sheffield Hallam University's Students Union. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton presents an audio poster entitled 'Educational Podcasting - 99 ideas for a-learning'. In this episode he speaks to several colleagues in the Learning and IT Services department at Sheffield hallam university. He asks them what ideas spring to mind when presented with some of the titles he has given to his ideas for educational podcasting. The hope is that before the end we find idea 100! Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton and Mark Pettigrew discuss an article by Jakob Nielsen in his Alertbox column from October 9, 2006 entitled 'Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute' (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html). Can the ideas he presents in this piece be mapped to education, specifically participation in online asynchronous discussion? Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton attends a mooting session. He joins Leslie Lomax and her undergraduate law students from the Mooting One module in a two hour mooting session to find out how this form of professional role play works and to consider its application to non-law disciplines. The Faculty of Development and Society's 'Mooting One' is an exciting module designed to develop research, legal argument, advocacy, team work, self-management and reflection skills. He references a session by Kirsten Hardie from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth presented at the HE Academy Conference 2006 entitled 'On trial: teaching without talking'. Hardie had used mooting with art students. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton speaks to Susannah Diamond who is leading the e-Portfolios initiative from Sheffield Hallam University's Learning and Teaching Institute. She offered a definition for e-Portfolios: they are digital presentations of meaningful and contextualised collections of assorted content. She proposes five major uses for portfolios: assessment; learning; presentation; personal development; and as a working environment. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Richard Mather reflects upon the Handheld Learning Conference 2006 held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London, October 12-13th. See: http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk/hl2006/). Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

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Susannah Diamond reflects upon the Eifel Conference on e-Portfolios 2006 held in Oxford, UK. See http://www.eife-l.org. More detail is available on the SHU Innovations blog at http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wordpress/?p=305#comments. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton speaks to Richard Lynch, a lecturer from Criminology, about his recent experience of using audio in his Blackboard course. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton talks to Liz Aspden about the new Integrated e-Learning course for Sheffield Hallam staff. Liz can be contacted on 4744 at SHU or by email at e.j.aspden@shu.ac.uk. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton reviews the Castblaster podcasting software. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com