DR BEX LEWISBLENDED LEARNING FELLOWLEARNING & TEACHINGDEVELOPMENT UNITHTTP://WWW.WINCHESTER.AC.UK/LEARNING

Dr Bex LewisBex.lewis@winchester.ac.uk

Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Committee22nd April 2010

http://johnwilborn.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/the-digital-natives-are-here/

http://www.marcprensky.com/

Bex’s PLE

The 21st Century Learner

http://mscofino.edublogs.org/2008/11/30/a-meeting-of-minds/

Sir David Melville, March 2009http://www.clex.org.uk

http://digital-fingerprint.co.uk/2009/09/fully-convergent/

Discussion: 26/03/10

Similarities People will still be

people, same fears, etc. Just another tech.

development like printing

Naivety & suspicion in early use

Guidance required to enable good use

Distinctions – space to meet

Implicit credibility

Differences Scale/massification Accessibility Longevity Worse cyber-bullying/or

just more public? Direct abuse

Think it’s “our world” We know too much

about students outside? Laziness, not past digital

tools Community vs individual

focus

But how can we use it?

Technology is just a tool?

http://www.camb-ed-us.com/school/standards-assessment.asp

Learning Network: Choices

Wireless Presenter with Laser Pointer

Personal Response Systems (Clickers)

Plagiarism Checking

“Turnitin Originality Checking allows educators to check students' work for improper citation or potential plagiarism by comparing it against continuously updated databases. Every Originality Report provides instructors with the opportunity to teach their students proper citation methods as well as to safeguard their students' academic integrity.”

•Ask ITS for a Tii password•Go to: http://www.submit.ac.uk/ •Register a class & ask students to upload their assignments • (or use the ‘Quick Submit’ facility)• See Eric Bodger’s report ‘Critique of Electronic Submission’ on the Learning Network

http://www.winchester.ac.uk/?page=11134

http://skillsnetwinch.wordpress.com/http://twitter.com/SkillsNetWinch

http://www.youtube.com/user/SkillsNetWinch

SkillsNet, Winchester

http://blog.twingly.com/2009/08/19/guest-post-social-media-adresses-the-hierarchy-of-needs/

Practical Ideas?

Blogs: Real-time engagement, formative feedback Twitter: “Backchatter”, concise summaries of

arguments/texts. Delicious: Bookmarking within a course, sharing

links Online treasure hunt: leading to the library! Second Life: museum for Creating and

Consuming History E-Portfolio: Space for reflective journaling Wiki: Non-linear development of an argument Facebook Group: Industrial placement students,

maintaining community YouTube: Session tasters

Synchronous Conferencing

http://www.elluminate.com/; http://www.wimba.com/; http://www.webex.co.uk/

Wimba Classroom

Wimba Voice & Wimba Pronto

Blended Learning Pages on the Learning Network:http://learn.winchester.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=1203

Bex’s Blog: http://digital-fingerprint.co.uk

What do you think?

• What is one new way that you could use one of the e-learning tools within one of your courses?

• What is the most positive aspect of e-learning tools that you can identify?

• What is your biggest fear, if any, about e-learning tools?