Tweet Did you know the Elevate Team are available to come to your School, Division or Course Team meeting to discuss various themes around technology enhanced learning? We’ve just run a 1 hour session for the School of Science, Technology and Health around technology enabled assessment and feedback. This session looked at around enhancing the [...]
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Looking for a topic for your School or Division Meeting? How about technology enabled assessment and feedback
AndyR 
November 21st, 2012 
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Learning Technology Taster Sessions
AndyR November 13th, 2012 Tweet The Elevate team taster sessions on Learning Technology start today. The topics we are covering today (in no more than 15 minutes) are: using the peer assessment in LearnUCS using clickers in your teaching The session plans are available from: https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B8aF5QN3s_UDcnhLS3RQUWR6LTg/edit The topics we are covering on the 15th Nov are: creating a talk [...]
Learning technology heads up: What it can do for you
AndyR November 7th, 2012 Tweet As part of the Elevate Team SARE we ran an online survey around how we can improve our services. A theme which came out of this survey was the need from staff for short (15 minutes) show and tells on different learning technologies and how they might be used within your (teaching) context. The [...]
When will the Elevate Team be based with you?
AndyR September 25th, 2012 Tweet Building on the successes of last year, the Elevate Team will be basing itself in a number of buildings and floors across the Ipswich Campus for the next few months to bring the staff support model to you. The following will commence the week starting the 15th October, 2012. The idea is to provide [...]
Learning Technology drop in surgeries for students
AndyR September 24th, 2012 Tweet To help students wishing to use technology in their learning the Elevate Team have arranged a number of Drop in Surgeries during this week. These are intended to help students get started with the learning technologies we cover in our Student Induction Sessions. These technologies include; LearnUCS Mahara ePortfolio Twitter Diigo Google Docs The [...]
So what did we cover in our JISC RSC Location Aware workshop?
AndyR May 30th, 2012 Tweet A question we aren’t being asked very often, however, a big thank you to JISC RSC Eastern who filmed the session and edited to the following. Note, it is one hour, ten minutes. So you may want to flip through some sections. The video is available from: http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/eastern/news/2012/may/university-campus-suffolk-designing-location-aware-learning-activities-video.aspx
Tags: Smarter Lectures – making learning happen in large-group settings
AndyR April 24th, 2012 Tweet Did you know … about the forth coming workshop >>> Wednesday 2 May 2102, 9:30-12:30, W413 UCS Waterfront Building It is well established that just sitting in traditional lectures is not the best way for students to achieve high learning payoff. This workshop will explore how we can refresh the teaching approaches we use [...]
workshop at UCS: designing location aware learning activities: QR Codes & Augmented Reality
AndyR March 19th, 2012 Tweet I am glad to announce we (Elevate) will be running a one day, hands-on workshop in partnership with JISC RSC Eastern, on the 9th May at UCS Ipswich on designing location aware learning activities: QR Codes & Augmented Reality. This workshop explores how we can effectively employ location aware based technologies, including QR Codes [...]
Learning technology sessions in February, 2012
AndyR January 17th, 2012 Tweet We will be running a number of learning technology sessions during February, 2012. The sessions are designed as short tasters around how people across UK Higher Education have been applying a selection of technologies to their teaching. Interestingly, we are running two of these sessions as online events, using the GoTo Webinar software. To [...]
Workshop on developing learning activities in Xerte
AndyR January 10th, 2012 Tweet The following workshop is being offered by JISC RSC Eastern. We (Elevate) have an installation of Xerte Online Toolkit, therefore, if you are interested in using this very powerful tool to develop e-tutorials and learning objects please contact elevate@ucs.ac.uk for more information concerning the tool and how to sign up for this workshop. ———————————– [...]
