Features and interviews about innovation in learning, teaching and assessment (LTA) for staff at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Podcasting for LTA is a fortnightly podcast from Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Its focus is Learning, Teaching and Assessment. Topics covered include emerging technologies, change of practice to meet changing needs and examples of good practice shared. The podcast is being evaluated in order to understand the potential of an academic podcast and its impact on workload and practice.
Reporting on e-learning 2.0
Posted: July 2009Andrew Middleton reports on the e-learning 2.0 conference at Brunel University, 6-7 July 2009. In doing so, he attempts to find a new manageable way of reporting on what happened and what was significant. With reference to notes made at the time, he attempts to create a 10 minute audio report - and fails abysmally! Nevertheless, this report highlights several of the sessions from a useful and enjoyable conference.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Audio Active at e-learning 2.0
Posted: July 2009Andrew Middleton shares outputs from the short paper presented at elearning 2.0, Brunel University, 6-7 July 2009. A pause from breath half way heralded a series of 3 minute activities that are introduced and reprooduced here. The term a-learning 2.0 is introduced, examined and quickly disposed of in the session!
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Media and the Frenzies
Posted: July 2009A product from a Media Frenzy. This is what it's all about!featuring the sample Ditto, Ditto by DoKashiteru, 2009 - Licensed under Creative Commons, Sampling Plus.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Media-enhanced learning
Posted: July 2009This recording comes from the discussion that followed the most recent Media Frenzy event. This is the point where I, and those taking part, have the opportunity to ask, "What does this mean for academic practice?" A product from a Media Frenzy. This is what it's all about! featuring the sample "ditto, ditto!" by DoKashiteru, 2009 - Licensed under Creative Commons, Sampling Plus.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Media Frenzy
Posted: December 2008Andrew Middleton reports on the Media Frenzy, a student digital creativity challenge event he organised at Sheffield Hallam University. Mathew Love, a lecturer in Art, Design, Communications and Media, discusses why this sort of event is useful to students, including his first years.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.e-Role Play
Posted: November 2008Claire Craig, Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy in Sheffield Hallam's faculty of Health and Wellbeing, talks about e-Role play, one of her innovative approaches to teaching.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Educational podcasting - generating ideas for a book
Posted: July 2008This podcast episode presents a series of activities that invite you to participate in the writing of a book about innovative models for educational podcasting. The activities, which are introduced and accompanied by a downloadable work book, guide you through some simple techniques that will help you to generate about four ideas during a one hour session working with one other person. When you have finished please email your ideas to me at a.j.middleton (at) shu.ac.uk, and I will acknowledge this and invite you to become involved in the peer review system. The activity starts at 4 mins 30 seconds.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Audio Feedback: timely media interventions
Posted: June 2008Recording of the session entitled Audio Feedback: timely media interventions from the Blended Learning Conference 2008, University of Hertfordshire, 19 June 2008Abstract: Audio feedback involves the use of distributed digital audio to provide formative messages to students helping them to develop knowledge and the way they learn. This paper presents several case studies by drawing upon interviews with academic staff and student focus groups. Ongoing research with these stakeholders identifies why audio feedback models, of which there are many, can be attractive and why they need to be carefully designed and integrated into the curriculum. The paper presents some early findings about the effective design of audio feedback and considers whether the interest in audio feedback may signal greater interest in designing constructivist media interventions.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Connected
Posted: March 2008In this episode Andrew Middleton creates a commentary on the use of technologies whilst attending a two day conference - remotely. He attempts to answer the question: how does virtual attendance compare to attending a conference in person? As well as using the Adobe Acrobat Connections webinar system and communicating through the back channel, the podcast discusses many other communication channels including Twitter and several blogs and Ning spaces in order to engage with other participants and their interests and expertise.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Digital Storytelling for HE
Posted: March 2008Digital Storytelling is yet to make a large impact on Higher Education in the UK. This is about to change. A small, but growing network of academic innovators is emerging recognising the potential of DST as a way of sharing experience, of developing one's understanding through the process of making stories and thirdly by using digital technologies as tools to facilitate communication and collaboration. In this interview Julie Coleman, a Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at Sheffield Hallam, describes her own interest in the media and he thoughts about its wider application. Julie references the Patient's Voices website where you can find some examples of stories.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Photographic interventions
Posted: January 2008Luke Bennett, a Senior Lecturer in the Built Environment subject group, shares his experience of using cameras to liven up law teaching. He has taken two approaches: the creative integration of photographs in his own teaching materials, and secondly by setting photography-based student assignments to create an engaging platform for some of the drier classess. Luke mentions that he used Flickr as a website so that his students could contribute their images - you can access flickr at www.flickr.com. Andrew Middleton also introduces the Ubiquitous Images Exhibition that will take place at Sheffield Hallam this year in which academic and student photographs will be displayed.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Clinical skills vodcasts
Posted: December 2007Carol Pollard and Andrew Jackson talk to Andrew Middleton about how and why they are learning to develop digital video for the clinical skills development.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.
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