Technology Demonstrators

Community of Practice November 17, 2021

TechDem CoP, November 17 Newsletter

SESSION DETAILS

Wednesday Nov 17, 1-2:30pm in this Zoom Room.

Welcome! Follow up from Oct 20 TechDem CoP - RESEARCH
Our focus for this meeting is a combination of TOOLS and PEDAGOGY with a focus on 2022. It's the end of the year....where have we been...where are we going?
Engaging with TechDems - Update on SIGs and how to apply for Learning and Teaching Assistant support for course intervention.
YOU SHARE - what have you been doing/exploring/implementing?
Guest speaker: Rod Fogarty - Mentimeter as a formative assessment tool
Guest speaker: Kylie Douglas - Examinations in Moodle
Discussion.
News, updates and opportunities.

SLIDES

RECORDING and embedded below

Examinations in Moodle - Kylie Douglas

Kylie shares how she uses the Moodle exam/test feature in her course CMS1000

Mentimeter as a formative assessment tool - Rod Fogarty

Rod shares how he embeds Mentimeter into tutorial sessions to enhance student engagement and formative understanding.

TechDem - Special Interest Groups

Technology Demonstrators now has THREE SIGs

MS Teams for Teaching SIG - gathering to learn more about using MS Teams in student-facing contexts.

Join the SIG conversation in the TechDem Team
Resource Padlet
APPLY HERE to join the pilot Sem 3, 2021 & Sem 1, 2022
Watch the video (embedded below) Workshop with Amanda from MS where we learned more about the MS Teams tool

Student Engagement SIG - great discussions taking place around defining 'engagement' and tools/pedagogies to support.

Join the SIG conversation in the TechDem Team
Resource Padlet

ePortfolio SIG - aims to explore the affordances of ePortfolios in learning and teaching for student success aligned with the USQ Academic Plan objectives including First Year Experience, Employability, Work Integrated Learning and digital literacy.

Join the SIG conversation in the TechDem Team
Resource Padlet
EOI to join ePortfolio SIG

MS Teams for Teaching Workshop with Microsoft - Monday Nov 15, 2021

Unpacking the Online Engagement Framework - Dr Alice Brown

Coming in 2022 - Coaching, Mentoring & Mentee Opportunities

Just need to connect with someone else who has successfully implemented use of an educational technology as an intervention? Want to quickly touch base with someone about the tips and traps of implementing an educational technology?

Are you interested in being a mentee to connect with others who have implemented an educational technology ? Are you interested in being available as a mentor for short touch base conversations? Coaching and/ or mentoring might just be for you.

We will be launching opportunities in 2022 for anyone interested in taking up coaching, mentoring or mentee opportunities to support the implementation of educational technologies.

Watch this space.

More News, Updates and Opportunities

Learning & Teaching Assistance for course interventions

You are invited to apply for L&T assistance for an edtech course intervention through this APPLICATION Form

Padlet - USQ subscription

It's here! You can get a personal Padlet license through the USQ subscription
Julie is managing this
Requests can now go through the USQ HUB Form for Articulate and Padlet

Articulate

Due to a recent upgrade of our license numbers there are currently spare 'seats' if you wish to have access to this useful tool.
Requests can now go through the USQ HUB Form for Articulate and Padlet

Engageli pilot

USQ is invited to pilot Engageli for learning and teaching in Sem 1, 2022
Read more and share your interest via this EOI Form

Twitter

Spaces are new - check them out!
Don't forget the hashtag for TecDems is #TechDemCoP

USQ Learning and Teaching Showcase - November 4, 2021

Resources now available via the 2021 Learning & Teaching Showcase site, as well as on the connected SharePoint site.

ASCILITE Conference - Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

29 Nov - Dec 1
Keynote speaker Dr Sarah Pearson - Read the ASCILITE TELall blog 'Emerging tech - It's moving fast and we need to too'

Virtual Reality examples

25 real-world examples of VR

Holiday Reading

Kelly, K., & Lock, E. (2021). That Synching Feeling: An Exploration of Student Engagement in an Online Environment. Student Success, 12(3), 48-57. https://doi.org/10.5204/ssj.1771

Immersive reality - The Cognitive Affective Model of Immersive Learning (CAMIL): a Theoretical Research-Based Model of Learning in Immersive Virtual Reality

Article in Campus Morning Mail by @macowling and @Dr_Tw3nty reminding us of the human element in learning and student engagement - Throwing out the pedagogical baby with the technologically unenhanced bathwater

Laufer, M., Leiser, A., Deacon, B., Perrin de Brichambaut, P., Fecher, B., Kobsda, C., & Hesse, F. (2021). Digital higher education: a divider or bridge builder? Leadership perspectives on edtech in a COVID-19 reality. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 18(1), 1-17.

According to Colin Simpson in Campus Morning Mail: This article examines the use of education technologies starting out from a position that vendors overhype their products but it eventually comes to the conclusion commonly held by people working in the sector that this doesn’t actually matter and a judicious combination of technology, pedagogy and capability building can in fact make a difference in education. Laufer et al. interview and survey HE leaders from 24 countries for their perspectives on the impact of education technologies in the last two years, covering opportunities and barriers for both individuals and institutions. Well worth a read for the big picture overview.

How to humanize your online class

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