Creating Interactive Learning Materials
Date: Monday 28th November 2011
Time: 1400-1600
Location: Bloomsbury, Birkbeck, Room B18
Aim: To showcase examples of interactive teaching materials that were created using a variety of multimedia to provide rich, effective learning experiences
Agenda
2.00 Welcome & Introductions, Sarah Sherman (BLE Service Manager)
2.10 Case study 1: Interactive Learning Materials Using Wimba Create, Sonya Powney (RVC)
2.30 Case study 2: Using Xerte to create interactive veterinary cases, Chris Trace (RVC)
2.50 Break
3.00 Case study 3: Xerte Demonstration, John Matthews (Birkbeck)
3.20 Case study 4: GLO Maker, Claire Bradley (London Metropolitan University)
3.40 Discussion
4.00 END
For further details, please do not hesitate to contact me Yanna Nedelcheva y.nedelcheva@bloomsbury.ac.uk.
Libraries 2.0? Web 2.0, Social Media, Learning
The 3rd Annual Conference of the Bloomsbury Libraries & eLearning Group
Institute of Education: 29 July 2011, from 1:30 - 5 pm
Following the success of the previous years' meetings bringing together library staff and learning technologists from the Bloomsbury Colleges, we are pleased to announce this year's Library and eLearning Conference. This year's event will be based around the use of social media and how libraries are making use of web2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, Twitter and Facebook. It will take place at the Institute of Education's Media Centre on the afternoon of Friday 29th July.
Presenters
What is web2.0 (Leo Havemann)
Case study 1: IOE (Gwyneth Price)
Case study 2: Birkbeck (Sue Godsell)
Case study 3: LSHTM (Chris Manning)
Web 2.0 for Marketing (Frank Steiner / Joe Edwards, ULCC)
Getting the most out of RSS (Mira Vogel, Goldsmiths College)
Managing staff development activity around web2.0 and social media (Jane Secker, LSE)
*if you work for the Bloomsbury Colleges and would like to listen to a recording of the event, visit this link:
Echo360 Showcase 2011
On Friday 8th April 2011 we held an Echo360 showcase with over 40 people coming along to find out how Echo 360 is used across our Colleges here in Bloomsbury and beyond. Excellent case studies were presented highlighting how Echo 360 is used and why students love it. In addition, we also heard about the challenges that lecture capture brings.
Presenters
Case study 1: Jane Falconer/Sheena Wakefield (LSHTM)
Case study 2: Sachin Taank (RVC)
The Students' Voice: Adam Sheridan, Emmy Greaves & Hannah Jordan (RVC students)
Case Study 3: Julie Voce/Lisa Carrier (Imperial College)
Guest Speaker: Graham McElearney (University of Sheffield) "Addressing the Challenges of Lecture Capture"
*if you work for the Bloomsbury Colleges and would like to listen to a recording of the event, visit this link: http://tiny.cc/Echo360_2011
Elluminate Showcase 2011
The Elluminate event held in Bloomsbury on 11th February was extremely successful, with over 70 people (virtual and in the flesh) coming along to find out what Elluminate is and how it is used across our Colleges here in Bloomsbury. Four excellent case studies were presented highlighting how Elluminate is used to:
-enable students from all over the world to learn together and interact in innovative ways (IOE)
-deliver Continuing Professional Development (RVC)
-teach students new languages (SOAS)
-deliver distance learning to global students (LSHTM)
Presenters
Guest speaker: Sheetal Chudasama, Blackboard Collaborate
Case study 1: Student engagement with Elluminate, Tim Neumann, IOE
Case study 2: Elluminate for Global Delegates, Fiona Fenton, RVC
Case study 3: Interactive Japanese Online, Rob Kennedy & Hideo Suzuki, SOAS
Case study 4: Elluminate and Distance Learning, Julia Langham, LSHTM
*if you work for the Bloomsbury Colleges and would like to listen to a recording of the event, visit this link: http://tiny.cc/Elluminate_Live_Feb11
