CFP November 1, 2012: The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy | HASTAC

CFP November 1, 2012: The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy | HASTAC

Plagiarism conference

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Tests on the Big Wheel to Presentations by the missing funfair

University of the Forest JISC Summer Conference on Prezi

 Off to Southport today for the JISC Annual Conference, a great day for JISC and us, but also a reminder of times past as we'll drive past the missing funfair - the first Revolution ride in Europe, once hosted and boasted here, but now an empty tract of broken concrete.  Still, things keep on revolving, so...
...The second time we have presented on the Digital Pioneers event, and hoping for a different set of approaches as we get to speak with Further Education, as well as Higher Education people.  The ideas for the project based approach, with students making the choices, and creating the assessment, were formed when I was delivering Adult Literacy classes in FE.  I think it will be massively interesting to see if there is anything I have lost or found during my own transistion into higher education.  Will teachers and lecturers in further education see many value in this approach?  are they already doing something similar?

Discussions I have had so far suggest that although FE lecturers are more tightly controlled by institutions, largely due to their presence beneath the OFSTED inspection regime, they also demonstrate radical approaches to teaching and are less bound by a tradition of what a lecture is, what learning and teaching need to be, than perhaps do the Higher Education Universities.

I know in my own time at FE I was allowed to arrange maths tests on the big wheel in Manchester, and support exam times with a massage and meditative chill out room,which I haven't yet had confident to try at HE - don't think I'll ever get that way with the Big Wheel!

Well, looking forward to today, a shame that I haven't got any students with me, so I have added a few videos to the presentation to 'liven' things up and get away from my own voice. If you are around at 11:00am ish GMT, send a tweet to #uniforest, that'll pop up on my screen at the end of the presentation.

Peter

belts, and yes indeed, braces!

Solstice University of the Forest on Prezi


Just adding another because it didn't seem to be accessible on another machine.

Here's the link too -  http://prezi.com/cygf6pwby7v_/solstice-university-of-the-forest/


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The Solstice presentation sneak preview!

The Presentation here is what we will deliver to the Solstice conference tomorrow, at 10:20am  A little precise you may think, but we are hoping that if you are around at that time you can maybe tweet a comment on the presentation - #uniforest will get you through to the conference room, and we'll definitely tweet back!

I did record this on the mac, but when it came to playing back my voice hadn't recorded at all - something of a bonus, some might say, but it means that you can't hear any commentary at all.

Not to worry though! we have the camera and sound equipment loaded up in the Mini, and we'll be sure to send some of the footage off to you if you want to see what a first conference presentation goes like (a first for all three of us).  If there is any haggling, we will not edit that out, but we will reserve the right to voice over them in the edit!

Hope you take the chance to look over the presentation and hope you get chance to send us a response.

Peter

ReadUnite challenging who owns learning

This is the http://www.readunite.co.uk/ student project that eventually was selected, amosgst stiff competition, as the trophy winning project by the Forest Charity.
It is an excellent example of how technology can be used to alter where learning takes place, and how 'ownership' of learning can be shared, transferred and open to changes in the content.  Parents and their children can generate the interest in a particular book, text or passage, while teachers - or parents with a particulat expertise - can offer some detail related to the curriculum, to phonics, to how things 'happen in the class' as well as how they happen at home.

Only the parents page is currently open and running and this is very much a big idea taking shape.  The interesting features are many, but the way that the 'Teacher' page has been added not as an agreed place of expertise, but as a reference for how things are done differently in schools than at home, is key to the project.  Teachers are invited to look, engage and participate - though not as 'experts' that over-ride the parents/ children, but as comparative perspectives from the 'formal learning' arena.

The excellent, and difficult to make, tool that measures reading age caused concerns as some of the teachers thought it removed the power of assessment from the school, and there was perhaps some danger in allowing people to assess themselves.  It's a school-type measure, gauging a reading age, but is proving a popular tool here and serves as a poignant indicator of how who 'owns/ measures and controls' learning is being challenged.  A child could do this with friends, parents or other family and use the comments from other children or parents as readily as they could refer to more readily agreed expertise.

An exciting project and the potential for it to grow is something the student is hoping to use in the future. Please feel free to add comments and look at the site, create an account and use it.

a photo as requested for the Southport event