25th November, OUCS 2pm
Lisa Sargood will be with us to talk about her work at BBC Vision – and how you can get media proposals in shape for commissioning by large companies such as the BBC. Its a unique chance to hear the perspective from a friendly voice on the other side of the table. Not to be missed.
Getting a multiplatform project into shape is no easy task. With a range of models to follow and where content can be developed across any number of platforms – web, mobile, via Apps, interactive TV, IPTV etc – where
do you start? In this session BBC Commissioner Lisa Sargood, will talk about the critical questions you should ask, and outline a simple process – with some strong recent case studies – that will help to ensure your creative digital ideas are fully developed, with the rigour required to attract a commissioner’s attention.
Zen and the art of presenting with impact: Principles and techniques for increased engagement
Garr Reynolds, Monday 21 November 16:30-17:30 Gulbenkian Theatre (also known as Lecture Theatre 1), St Cross Building, Law Faculty
Garr Reynolds, an internationally acclaimed design and presentations expert, returns to Oxford to give another lecture here at Oxford. His approach challenges the conventional wisdom of making slide presentations and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr will share lessons and perspectives that will help you make remarkable presentations that are simpler, more visual, and far more compelling, engaging, and memorable. For those who saw him in December 2010 there will be some new material and a refresh of some of his design principles. For those who did not have the chance to attend last time don’t miss out this time!
Monday, 7th November,5pm OUCS
Dr Liz Masterman & Dr Jo Wild
Investigating the impact of open educational resources on teaching and learning in UK universities. In recent years, UK universities have received significant funds for the production and release of open educational resources (OER). Acknowledging the growing need to study the demand side, JISC funded a team from Oxford to carry out a small-scale qualitative investigation into the benefits of, and challenges to, incorporating OER into teaching and learning from the perspective of lecturers themselves. In this seminar Liz and Jo will present the findings from the study – with a little help from you!
Tuesday 1st November 4pm, OUCS
Technology enthusiasts have been very excited about the application of social networking platforms and tools in Higher Education. For the most part this has been hype (remember Google Wave?). Underneath the excessive breathless excitement, though, there is a valuable nugget that is worthy of investment. Michael Korcuska from LinkedIn will speak about why LinkedIn is the most important social network for higher education and how academics, students and the university as a whole can make the most of LinkedIn.
This session will provide an overview of how LinkedIn can be used by staff, students and researchers to improve your online networking and make the most of your contacts. If you thought LinkedIn was only for publishing your CV think again.
28th June 4pm.
Once again, the annual OxTALENT awards will celebrate the best and brightest use of technology in learning and teaching at Oxford University.
Friday 17th June 2pm OUCS
Alison Prince:Shelley’s Ghost opened to visitors at the Bodleian last year alongside, for the first time, a complete version of the exhibition online . This talk offers a brief behind the scenes tour of website project and also a sneak preview of what’s to come on the next one.
David Baker: David is senior teacher at OUCS with expertise in learning technology and digital media. He will talk on the some of the key questions often asked in his sessions on digital images:How do I go about archiving my images in the University? Where can I source images for academic papers and presentations?
Roger Schank
Tuesday, 24th of May at 5:00 pm at OUCS.
Roger Schank is one of the world’s leading thinkers on artificial intelligence, learning theory, cognitive science, and the building of virtual learning environments. He is CEO of Socratic Arts, a company whose goal is to design and implement learning-by-doing, story-centered curricula in schools, universities, and corporations.
In the early 1970’s, at Stanford, Roger achieved worldwide fame when he was the first to get computers to be able to process typewritten everyday English language sentences. He developed a model for representing knowledge and the relationships between concepts that enabled his programs to predict what concepts might be coming next in a sentence. In 2006, Schank called a meeting of people who shared his desire to change the nature of how education is conceived. Together they came up with a game plan for the creation of a Virtual World Academy, an online school offering an alternative to traditional education with international standards.
make: is a forum for sharing ideas about the creative use of technology in learning, teaching and research. We invite along speakers from different disciplines to inspire you with ideas for developments in your own areas of expertise. You will see from the list below, that this year’s topics are even more wide ranging than before. And don’t feel that only those sessions in your field will be of interest to you – every session will have something that could inspire you! The sessions run at lunchtimes, and the usual format is a 30-40 minute talk followed by questions and discussion.
Make: Online exhibitions – Shelley’s Ghost Wednesday 11 May 12:30-13:30
Make: Virtual – the fundamentals of 3D development Thursday 12 May 12:30-13:30
Make: Books – creating books for your iPad Wednesday 18 May 12:30-13:30
Make: Together – teaching undergraduates with WebLearn Thursday 19 May 12:30-13:30
Make: Together – textual scholarship in the twenty-first century Monday 23 May 12:30-13:30
Make: Content – creating media-rich learning resources using GLOMaker Tuesday 24 May 12:30-13:30
Make: Together – using online platforms to generate traditional print material Thursday 2 June 12:30-13:30
Make: Music – Tibetan bells; ringing the changes in music composition Tuesday 7 June 12:30-13:30
Make: Together – using Google Earth in teaching Thursday 9 June 12:30-13:30
Make: Images – digitising a slide collection Tuesday 14 June 12:30-13:30
Make: Copyright Thursday 16 June 12:30-13:30
Make: Images – C-Slide – zoom and annotate images on the web Thursday 23 June 12:30-13:30
Beyond Collections: Crowdsourcing for public engagement.
A free one-day conference held at OUCS, University of Oxford on 26th May 2011
Our ‘Beyond’ conference this year will celebrate the joys and challenges of community collections. It will be hosted by the RunCoco project and sponsored by JISC . The conference will be of interest to learning technologists, librarians, museums, community groups, archivists and researchers.We welcome colleagues who are involved in digital and community collection projects and our friends and contributors to LTG’s annual ‘Shock and beyond’ events. If you are involved in crowdsourcing, collections or digital projects you are invited to attend this event which will celebrate the joys and challenges of community collections. Please note, this year’s ‘Beyond’ conference is smaller than previous years’ so book your place asap.
Tag your blog posts, tweets, and photos of the Beyond Conference #beyond2011
Tuesday 29th March at 5-6pm
Jane O’Neill, Senior Staff Development Officer, University of Leeds.
Jane is the senior learning technologist in the Staff and Departmental Development Unit at University of Leeds and has variously looked after Bodington and Blackboard VLEs , Qmark Perception, elgg, and Turnitin, Leeds podcasting and LUTube.
In this presentation she will describe how Leeds has developed institutional strategies for use of Turnitin, plagiarism deterrence, electronic submission, anonymous submission, Grademark and Peermark. She will also highlight how quiz and testing software can be used for feedback to support thinking and academic writing through the use of different question types, randomisation, re-use and questionbanks.
