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Using Technology to Enhance Your Teaching Dr Rachel Cowen, Research Staff Trainer, University of Manchester Mr Alex Hardman, E-Learning Developer, University of Manchester

Technology Enabled Teaching

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Using Technology to Enhance Your Teaching

Dr Rachel Cowen, Research Staff Trainer, University of ManchesterMr Alex Hardman, E-Learning Developer, University of Manchester

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About us

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(We know a little)

About you‘…list the technologies you have used’

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(We know a little)

About you

• Knowledge of the range of possibilities• How they can be used

– Without causing stress and confusion– Without being overly complicated

• Signposting to further information• To know what the advantages are• Create more interesting lectures• To connect with large & small audiences with IT

What would you like to get out of this?

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(We know a little)

About you

• University support available/ contacts• Engaging teaching strategies• Less work for me ;)• Confidence• Assessment• Tips, ideas and shortcuts• Maybe some swimming with sharks

What would you like to get out of this?

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Objectives

• Identify and categorise the activities that you do in your teaching

• Practice using some technologies that could be applied in your training

• Consider different ways that technology could be incorporated into your teaching

• Evaluate the technologies in a teaching context

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Technologies change the way we do things

and provide new opportunities/

challenges

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Mechanical Age

Technologies change how we do things

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Mechanical Age Electronic Age

Technologies change how we do things

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Mechanical Age Electronic Age Digital Age

Technologies change how we do things

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Living in a digital world

Social bookmarking/

referencing

Wiki’s

RSS

Podcasting (sharing audio)

Blogging/ micro-blogging

Chat

Slide sharing

Searching

WE CAN create, publish, broadcast, connect, share, search

User generated recommendation

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We can categorise the types of activities that we use in our teaching

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We can categorise the types of activities that we use in our teaching

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Activities Assessment/ QA

DiscussionDissemination

Others? – Administration? Marketing?

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Activity – Think-Pair-Share

1. Think of all the activities that you do as part of your teaching. Add them to a category in the worksheet

2. Share with the person next to you

3. Share with the wider group

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Sewing this together. . .

RSS

(Really Simple Syndication)

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Sewing this together. . .

RSS Reader

(Really Simple Syndication)

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Sewing this together. . .

“Aggregation”

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“powerful learning experiences are social,

immersive, engaging, and participatory.”

George Veletsianos, October 2009

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What questions does this raise?

• How does this make you feel as a teacher?• Do you agree/ disagree with ‘participatory’?