Teaching, resources, references

Sculpted Elearning - end of project interviews

Sculpted Elearning was a LearnScope project undertaken during 2006 by some of the staff in the design and multimedia area of the Art, Craft and Design team. The overview of the project was:

"The focus of this project is the development of skills in permanent and sessional staff (who are currently 75% of the team) who teach in Design and Multimedia, South, in flexible delivery skills, with a concentration on learning design. The major outcome will be increasing the flexibility for students eg short courses or small qualifications for graduates/enterprise students and potential career pathway students". 

Each team worked on project as their individual learning experience. The following interviews were part of the final workshop. Click on the images to download the video. The video is ready for playback on a video ipod. (You may need a new version of Quicktime to play the video)

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Matt Daniels Matt was working on a Flash based piece of software to allow a new type of low bandwidth screensharing application.	Marcos Gogolin Marcos was working on the delivery of workplace training using Elluminate.
John Bright John was working on an online gallery.	Josephine McLachlan Jo was working on developing a WebCT course to support her face to face teaching in the area of print based graphic design.
Matt Oakes Matt teaches in the short course program and was looking at way to deal with the fact that in a group of students there is a range of skill levels.	Faye Waterman Faye teaches communication skills, and has been working on an online course in communication skills for designers. She is reusing toolbox learning objects.
Peter Higgs Project Facilitator	Robin Petterd Project Manager

My Feedbook

Over the last while there has been a bit buzz about the idea of feedbooks. For me the idea could work really well, my content area is constantly changing and there is a huge amount of resources out there on new media design and web design generally. In the past I've encouraged students to use RSS feed readers and talked about that fact RSS feeds are part of the reason "I know stuff". Last year I think about 5 set up bloglines accounts and one started to spend way to much of his time reading RSS feeds. !!! This year I've build an OPML file to give to students. If you interested here is the OPML file.

This approach is a bit different to the one Kirsty has taken mainly because my students should be able to deal with RSS feeds etc and part of what I need to do is give them to tools to be able to keep up with the area.

Now it's going to be interesting to see how many students start using it.