Date – Friday, 6th November 2009
Location – University of Abertay
Agenda
11.10 – 11.15 Introduction: Stephen Vickers
11.15 – 11.30 Blackboard Update: Richard Burrows
11.30 – 12.15 Atlantic Link: Jerry Dowds will demonstrate Atlantic Link’s (http://www.atlantic-link.co.uk/) collaborative rapid e-learning tools,using which ‘anyone who can use a computer can create stunning e-learning and unleash the knowledge locked within themselves and their organisations’.
12.15 – 13.00 Audio Feedback: Paul McLaughlin (The University of Edinburgh)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Google Wave – View Martin Hawksey’s presentation (JISC Regional Support Centre, Scotland North & East)
15.00 – 15.45 Improving learning and feedback in a psychology class using Turnitin and Grademark – View David La Rooy’s presentation (Abertay University)
Date – Thursday, 11th February 2010
Location – The Castle Room, Craighouse Campus, Edinburgh Napier University
The day had two major themes: Lecture Capture and Texting (SMS), as well as a session on a building block for Blackboard that offers improved functionality on assessment and feedback – the Assignment Handler.
We were also pleased to have Phil Marston and Sarah Cornelius from the University of Aberdeen along to talk about their work on SMS. A few of you may have seen Phil’s keynote at the recent Durham Blackboard Conference.
In a first for Scot-BUG, the meeting was available online using Napier’s Elluminate service.
Agenda
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee/Tea
10.30 – 10.35 Welcome: Stephen Vickers and Stephen Bruce
Lecture Capture
10.35 – 10.55 I: Educational Benefits of Lecture Capture: Kevin Brosnan (University of Stirling) – View Kevin Brosnan’s presentation
10.55 – 11.20 II: Beyond the Echo 360 Pilot: Alex Carter (University of Edinburgh) – View Alex Carter’s presentation
The University of Edinburgh ran a pilot of lecture capture in 2008/9 using echo360 technology and is now looking at options for future provision. Alex Carter, Multi-Media Team Manager, presented an overview of the pilot including evaluation from students and staff. The talk also outlined the technology that Edinburgh will be using for future provision of lecture capture
11.20 – 11.40 III: Recording Lectures with Smartboards: Graeme Ferris and Susi Peacock (Queen Margaret University) – View Graeme Ferris and Susi Peacock’s presentation
QMU has been using Smartboards to record lectures/seminars/tutorials for the last 6 months. The recording contains audio and any visual content displayed through Smartboard. The recording is accessed through WebCT. This talk discussed the process of recording with smartboards, advantages and challenges and provided some exemplars.
11.40 – 11.55 IV: Use of Camtasia Relay: Laraine Milne (University of Aberdeen) – View Laraine Milne’s presentation
11.55 – 12.15 V: Re-enforcing the Lecture and Tutorial Environment with On-line Lectures, Fun Challenges, Virtual Environments and Demonstrations: Bill Buchanan (Edinburgh Napier University) – View Bill Buchanan’s presentation
This presentation outlined a successful computing module which used on-line lectures, on-line labs, and on-line tutorials fully to engage the students in the classroom and within tutorials, no matter if they are studying locally or remotely. For this all of the lectures integrated completely into the fabric of the module, and tried to avoid the talking-head type display of many current approaches, in order to focus on the key learning material. Along with this, the presentation outlined the usage of full versions of lectures, in order that every student got the same, equivalent learning environment. A key focus of the developed material was to the reenforcement of face-to-face teaching in the classroom and also in the lab environment, while providing innovative simulation software, virtual environments and fun challenges to full engage students. The presentation concluded with the results from student feedback, and highlighted the areas of success, along with presenting some pointers as to some of the possible things to avoid in providing an on-line infrastructure. With the presentation there were also tips on how to support easy integration of on-line material with on-line learning environments.
12.20 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Implementation of the Assignment Handler and Grade Book integration: Chris Turnock (Northumbria University) – View Chris Turnock’s presentation
Chris demonstrated the Assignment Handler buidling block developed at Sheffield Hallam and extended by Northumbria University
Mobile Devices
14.30 – 15.10 I: The Exciting Innovation using SMS Messaging to Immerse Students in a Simulation Exercise even when they are in the Pub!: Phil Marston and Sarah Cornelius (University of Aberdeen) – View Phil Marston and Sarah Cornelius’ presentation
15.10 – 15.30 II: Conducting polls using SMS text messages: Stephen Vickers (University of Edinburgh)
The use of personal response systems in lectures depends on the distribution of voting devices (clickers). This presentation outlined how similar functionality is being developed for the Blackboard integrations offered by the txttools SMS service provider so that students can vote using their mobile phones.
15.30 – Scot-BUG Event ended
Date – Wednesday, 23rd June 2010
Location – University of Stirling
The day was based around Learn 9.1 with presentations looking at the software from both a WebCT and Blackboard classic viewpoint. Adrian Powell from the University of Sheffield and spoke about the recent procurement exercise at Sheffield.
Agenda
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee/Tea
11.00 – 11.05 Welcome: Stephen Vickers and Simon Booth
11.05 – 11.15 Blackboard update: Richard Burrows (Blackboard)
11.15 – 12.15 Reviewing the institutional VLE: Adrian Powell (University of Sheffield)
12.15 – 13.00 Learn 9.1: Stephen Clarke (Blackboard)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Learn 9.1: the view from WebCT Campus Edition: Simon Booth (University of Stirling)
14.30 – 15.00 Learn 9.1: the view from Blackboard Classic: Malcolm Murray (Durham University)
15.00 – 15.30 Roundtable: Learn 9.1: the view from here (All)
15.30 Close