Welcome to the December
2014 meeting
Ethos and Outcomes
Collaborative
• Share attendance and experiences at events and conferences
• Share ideas and practice
• Belongs to members
Professional
Development
• Opportunity to demonstrate experience of work and
Learning Technologists Network @ Leeds developments
Ethos and Outcomes
• Empowerment
Open
Connected
• To new members in many roles
• Informal
• Meeting outcomes posted on blog and circulated
• Links to internal and external networks
• Input into and informed by University policies
Links
Digital
Learning
Team
The VLE
Service
Academic
Champions
LTN @ Leeds
SDDU
Faculty and
School
Staff
BLLTIG
Distance
Learning
Network
December 2014 Meeting
Agenda
• 3D Visualisation at Earth & Environment
– Educational and fun
• ‘Appy Hour (well 15-20 minutes!)
– Animoto
– NearPod
– MyMealMate App
• Network Aims 2015
3D Visualisation at Earth & Environment
Rebecca Sellers
Appy Hour
(well 15-20 minutes!)
Beth Snowden
Network Aims 2015
James Little
What do we want to do in 2014-2015?
 Already agreed from last year:
 Monthly meetings
 Featured demos/guests
 Blog (TELR)
 Last 2 meetings consulted the network by continue, start, stop
activity:
(PDF Summary)
•
Collaborative
•Share attendance and experiences
at events and conferences
•Share ideas and practice
•Belongs to members
“What should we continue, stop and start?” outcomes summary structured
by network ethos into Actions
Professional Development
•Opportunity to demonstrate
experience of work and
developments
•Empowerment
Open
•To new members in many roles
•Informal
•Meeting outcomes posted on blog
and circulated
•We should
•We should
•More practical sessions so that we
•Invite more academics
only come to things we’re really
•More meeting locations
interested in:
•External visitors are essential for
(Teaching/Scorative/VLE/Adobe
horizon scanning
Connect/Online teaching /
•Like
the idea of demos –
Animation/Resources for
commercial suppliers.
Teaching/Assessment)
•Higher frequency topics – most
•CPD on the agenda
tools won’t work, but higher
•Sometimes feel we rush through
number of topics increases chance
or skim over things – knowing
of “hits” with particular groups
what software is being used isn’t
• Rebrand to Learning Technology
that useful – longer demo/hands
Network (get away from role
on session would be better.
issues)? (JKAL)
•Technology demonstrations
•emerging technologies were very
interesting – I would like to see
more of these
•More demos/guests
•Yes for more tech demos – more
technical topics as well.
•Intro to languages (Python etc)
HTML5 interactivity. Al + be
Edge(?)?
•Skills development, practice,
sharing
•. Skills development not discussion
more valuable.
•opportunity for a 5-10 minute
demo of everyone’s favourite app.
•LONGER DEMO HANDS ON
SESSIONS
•MAKE SURE SESSIONS ARE
RELEVANT
•Case studies in L&T
• List of members interests and
groups ->toStructures
andone
members
Outcomes are placed multiple times if they are relevant
more than
ethos area. Things to stop have been turned
•We should
•Continue monthly meetings
•Monthly meet ups
•Invite more academics
• List of members interests and
groups -> Structures and members
•Case studies in L&T
•5-10 minute demo of everyone’s
favourite app.
•Sharing good practice – where we
know it works
•Sharing good practice
•I love hearing about good other
projects and how they have done
them e.g. what they have used
•Technology demonstrations
•Monthly meet ups
•Meeting, sharing, working
together – try to do more
•External visitors are essential for
horizon scanning
•All looks good to me! Like the idea
of demos – commercial suppliers.
•Discussing effects of technology
techniques in different contexts.
Challenging rhetoric
•Skills development, practice,
sharing
•Any pool of resources that we
could use e.g. rooms etc?
•opportunity for a 5-10 minute
demo of everyone’s favourite app.
•START USING THE BLOG
•LESS USE OF POWERPOINT
into positive actions (i.e. ignoring the blog has been turned into use the blog)
Connected
•Links to internal and external
networks
•Input into and informed by
University policies
•We should
•Invite more academics
•Reflect on some of the projects of
other groups in order to feedback
to Schools/Faculties
• Widen the network
•Opening out the network beyond
learning technologists
•Occasional informal meet ups (e.g.
lunch, quick after work drinks,)
• Any pool of resources that we
could use e.g. rooms etc?
•External visitors are essential for
horizon scanning
•Like the idea of demos –
commercial suppliers.
•More demos/guests
•Expand the blog
buddybosstheme, terms, privacy,
aims, activities Agree plan for
shorter monthly meetings
•Occasional informal meet ups (e.g.
lunch, quick after work drinks,)
More demos, keep CPD on the
agenda
•like to see demos of what the
University has produced or is
producing
•Topics based on tools (external
partners)
•List of members interests and
groups -> Structures and members
•Reflect on some of the projects of
other groups in order to feedback
to Schools/Faculties (lecture
capture/e-assessment). Lots of
staff don’t know about these
developments!
• Summary of actions mapped
to areas of activity:
Connections
BLOG
* Re-launch blog with
- extended profiles
- Interests
- Resources to share
- Meeting outcomes
posted on blog and
circulated
* Invite more
academics and roles
* Members to invite
colleagues
Sharing Knowledge
Learning
Technology
Network
Activities
* On the Blog
* In meetings
* Case studies
* Good practice
* Pool Resources
Face to Face
Meetings(3):
Face to Face
Meetings(1):
* Map out series of
topics and changing
locations for year.
People to attend on
interest.
* Invite external
speakers
* Monthly, 1 hour
Face to Face
Meetings(2):
* Keep overall balance of
demos, hands-on and
discussion. (tech versus
discussion) – but specific
meetings could be all or
specific
* Making clear options
for skills development.
* Discussing effects of
technology techniques
in different contexts.
Challenging rhetoric
* Existing tech versus
emerging
Actions are summarised - multiple outcomes from the previous page are merged – i.e. multiple requests for continued meetings or external visitors
What do we want to do in 2014-2015?
 Between now and next meeting:
 Refactor blog profiles to include information on:
 Skills
 Resources
 Structure/Location/Faculty
 Map out meetings schedule with location of meetings
 Next meeting – revisit and address others (ad-hoc meetings,
blog posts)
 Rest of year – monitor areas of activity and revisit halfway
through
Happy Christmas & New Year!