Category: My Presentations

Improving the Everyday #pelc13

Presentation at PELeCON #pelc2013 on our user testing work at City to improve the VLE interface

At the 8th Plymouth Enhanced learning Conference this year I gave a short talk on our User Testing project involving the City Interaction Lab. In the same session Emily Allbon, the Law Librarian at City, presented Lawbore – her excellent law portal for undergraduate Law students.

Sadly this was the last time PELeCON to be held in Plymouth. I’ve really enjoyed the four I have attended and although the organisers plan to relocate next year it will never be quite the same.

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Social Media for Engineers

Talk for the Greenwich branch of IEEE on use of social media for for students, teachers, researchers & job-hunters

I gave this talk to the University of Greenwich IEEE student branch down at Greenwich’s Medway campus.

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Using mobile devices in the classroom

Presentation at LSE Teaching Day 2011 on the use of PollEverywhere by the Media & Communications department & the Careers Service.

At the LSE Teaching Day I contributed to a presentation Use of mobile devices in the classroom for student participation & feedback (PDF of slides) given by staff and students from the Media & Communications department & the LSE Careers Service.

Students Komal Parikh  & Ev Boyle explained how they had enhanced a class student debate on media imperialism using PollEverywhere (See audience voting tools review).  The students had used 15 questions to gauge interest, check understanding & elicit questions. Judith Baines, an LSE Careers Advisor, had used the same tool to collect feedback from multiple groups.

Report from Plymouth E-Learning Conference 2011

The Plymouth Elearning conference punches well above its weight. This year the school kids stole the show.

My conference highlight, offering us (HE) real food for thought, were the contributions from school students. I came across this quote ahead of the conference while preparing for my own session on blogging:

I love our blog, it’s so fun to go on. I learn lots of new things in our blog. I especially liked working with the other P5 class from Tannochside Primary on the rainforest. It’s awesome, I hope I get to come on tomorrow.

Chloe F, Year 5, Chapelside Primary School

Many of the sessions at pelc11 were great but the Student Voice Technology Showcase organised by Dan Roberts was my standout session. In all of the examples the students are active learners, creating and being creative.

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Students, Social Media & Job-Hunting

Presentation with LSE Careers Service reporting on our work supporting LSE’s students’ use of social media for job-hunting

Earlier today I was at AGCAS Social Media, London presenting ‘Digital Footprints @ LSE: Supporting students to use social media’ with my partner-in-crime LSE Careers Adviser Judith Baines. We were talking about the sessions we run for students, in particular a termly lunchtime seminar and more recently a Linkedin webinar.

There was a very interesting discussion about digital identities and the emerging “social netiquette”:

  • Is it OK to ignore connection requests
  • If someone recommends you on Linkedin do you need to reciprocate
  • Do you become ‘friends’ with your students
  • and so on…
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