Tweet The latest development sprint from the Elevate Team was to look at OER (Open Educational Resources) Repositories. A number of other institutions use OER Repositories to store learning & teaching materials, these repositories aim to have a user friendly web interface allowing other users to easily navigate and search for those materials. Another driver [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ipad’
UCS Learning & Teaching Materials Repository
AaronB 
October 25th, 2012 
Posted in Developments, Projects & Pilots 
Tags: e-learning, ipad, iphone, Mobile, oer, smartphone, tablet 
Comments OffUsing your Ipad to record student presentations for formative feedback
AndyR October 19th, 2012 Tweet A quick question for staff with iPads. Do you want to record student presentations, group work etc., to provide formative feedback? If the answer is yes, the following describes a simple way of achieving this with the technology in you pocket (ish). The Elevate Team have tested the following in a couple of different [...]
What are we doing with Media Tablets in 2012/13?
AndyR June 26th, 2012 Tweet We are drawing up the project plans for the next academic year. One area we’ll be looking at is the use of media tablets (mainly iPads) in teaching, learning and assessment. The emerging plan is as follows. This is still under some discussion. ———————————– Aims The following outlines the ideas for the iPad project [...]
LearnUCS: Staff webinar series to get you started (BUMP Announcement 4)
AndyR May 25th, 2012 Tweet The Elevate Team will be running a number of short (20 minute) webinars for teaching staff at UCS designed to help them get started with the new software. These sessions will cover both the efficiency gains and the learning and teaching enhancements offered by the new system. We’ll also cover an update on timings [...]
Screencasting from the iPad using Explain Everything
AndyR May 21st, 2012 Tweet As some people know, the Elevate Team have been exploring with staff the use of tools to allow screencasting from the iPad. Aaron found the Explain Everything (http://www.explaineverything.com/) which was used to create the screencast below. The screencast is a powerpoint presentation given as part of the update on the Blackboard upgrade and migration project. [...]
Video conferencing from the iPad using GoTo Meeting
AndyR April 27th, 2012 Tweet As part of a trial for an invited speaker into a lecture at UCS the Elevate Team explored the use of an iPad 3 using the GoTo Meeting application. The link below walks through the version which uses audio only. However, the latest version includes video conferencing using the camera. Initial thoughts findings were [...]
Creating your presentation on the iPad (Keynote)
AndyR February 9th, 2012 Tweet Based on a train trip home, and watching over someones shoulder as they create a presentation on the iPad using keynote, I thought, I should really try this, why am I creating on a desktop, and uploading to dropbox when I could use my iPad? The Elevate Team were recently invited to talk at [...]
Thoughts from using the iPad to create and report back on group work in classroom sessions
AndyR January 16th, 2012 Tweet We (Elevate) recently participated in UCS’s Learning Resources Development Day. We were set the challenge of trying to effectively use iPads in a classroom teaching situation. The development day was based around a number of short presentations with group work at the end of each session. The challenge was to look at how we [...]
iPad Update – Using ShowMe For Student Revision
gdevereux January 10th, 2012 Tweet Over the Christmas and New Year break, I made use of ShowMe to create some ‘YouTube style’ video clips. These were made to aid student revision, in their preparations for an exam in January. The module concerned involves a fair amount of mathematical work, including rearranging formulae (which is never a favourite of theirs, [...]
Visual Browsing & Augmented Reality – An update
AaronB December 2nd, 2011 Tweet I just wanted to give a quick update on the app that we used for the quick demo shown in this post “Visual Browsing and Augmented Reality“, we have a number of teams at UCS interested in this technology. One of the teams is the Marketing department who are looking to “spice up” the [...]
