An interesting article which looks at the most effective way fro students to take notes and use those notes to help their learning.
Interesting comments which suggest a different strategy might be the best for students using their electronic devices to take notes.
https://theconversation.com/whats-the-best-most-effective-way-to-take-notes-41961
Sugata Mitra – two kinds of entrepreneur
Jack Fisher’s story – becoming an ultra-lapse film maker
We feature clips from many enterprising people in the Enterprise Shed. We haven’t always had the opportunity to expand on their stories and how they made their ideas happen. One person featured is Jack Fisher (jackfisher.org) a Newcastle graduate who now specialises in motion-based Time-Lapse photography.
We love Jack’s work. See Newcastle in Motion for example.
Jack has always been interested in films and time lapse photography. His hobby has become his business in the last year. So how did he make it happen?
His advice is to just get out there and do it. Jack noticed that there were not many people making time lapse films in the UK and Europe. He was given a new film camera for his 21st birthday which he used to make a short film about the town he grew up in (Bath). He showed it to some city councillors who were so impressed that they commissioned a longer version which went viral. Jack has been inundated with work since then.
Jack used the Internet to research how to make these films. He says he was then in the right place at the right time, but the important things were having a go and showing people what he could do.
Social Media in Teaching – 3P workshop on 23 April 2015
Our fourth Pizza Pop and Practice event will be on the topic of “Social Media in Teaching”
Is social media friend or foe?
- How can I jump into the Twitter stream?
- Can I generate conversations and connections around blogs?
- How can I use Facebook in teaching?
This workshop is focused on helping you improve your teaching practice – we provide the hands-on support and the pizza!
Print off a poster for the workshop
Hashtag #social3p
Workshop materials
- Pearltrees case study on the Enterprise Shed (click images to open other websites and case studies)
- Phonar case study (Opening up photography teaching)
- Library guide to twitter for teaching
- 30 ways to use twitter in the classroom
- Connecting Twitter and LinkedIn
- Storify example
Blogs
- Blogging slides
- Urban design blog and case study
People are really getting into ShedTalk!
The Enterprise Shed: Making Ideas Happen is Newcastle University‘s third free online course on FutureLearn. It started today and runs for four weeks with around three hours a week needed to keep up. Or you can join anytime before Sunday 26 April, and work through it at your own pace.
I’d really encourage you to sign up and take part whilst the course is running though, as this course is a little different to the two we have developed and run previously. The Enterprise Shed is almost entirely dependent on learners interactions and participation.
It’s you that will make or break this course, and it has been really encouraging to see how readily people are connecting, sharing experiences, helping each other, and sharing ideas so freely and openly.
After only a day it’s turning out to be a really inspirational space to be in.
If you haven’t signed up, there’s still plenty of time. Come and join us in The Enterprise Shed, and help others make their ideas happen, as well as get support to develop and refine your own.
You never know, it might be the start or something new for you….
Almost there – The Shed Mentors met yesterday
We had a really productive meeting yesterday morning when the Lead Sheducator, Sheducators and Mentors met to familiarise themselves with The Enterprise Shed: Making Ideas Happen and how it will run when it starts next Monday on FutureLearn.
We have a great bunch of people, all experts in enterprise and entrepreneurial thinking, ready and eager to work with learners on The Enterprise Shed: Making Ideas Happen.
Perhaps you have met some of them already?
- Katie Wray is a Lecturer in Enterprise in the SAgE Faculty here at Newcastle University and Lead Sheducator.
- Rebecca Fisher is an Entrepreneurial Development Officer, also at Newcastle University and is both a Sheducator and Mentor.
- Simon Laing is a recent Virgin Startup success story with Cullercoats Bike & Kayak.
- Angela McLean (and her daughter, Jessica McCarthy) recently secured a deal for £100,000 from Dragon’s Den for their Baggers Originals childrens rainwear company.
- Jane Nolan, MBE is a Teaching Fellow in Enterprise with the International Centre for Music Studies in the School of Arts and Cultures and a Visiting Entrepreneur supporting the work of Newcastle University Careers Service. She was awarded the MBE in 2000 for services to UK exports.
- Dr Colin Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the University of Tasmania where he works in the Australian Innovation Research Centre.
- Dr Victoria Mountford is an enthusiastic, entrepreneurial and people-focused individual with a range of experience in (enterprise & employability) higher education, (academic & commercial) research & business development. She works as a Development Officer in the Newcastle University Careers Service.
There will be other enterprising individuals popping up throughout this highly participatory course:
- Professor Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University and was given the $1m TED Prize in 2013 in recognition of his work and to help build a School in the Cloud – he tells us more about that.
- We were very excited when Lead Sheducator Katie Wray asked Sir Richard Branson when he visited Newcastle recently what kind of people he thought were entrepreneurial…
Most people ought to be able to become entrepreneurs if they put their mind to it. Sir Richard Branson, 3 March 2014, Northern Stage, Virgin Startup event organised by TEDCO Business Support.
There is still plenty of time to sign up and explore your enterprising side – come and join us in The Enterprise Shed!
Peer recognition award – deadline extented to 30th April (5pm)
Has someone helped you? Has another member of University staff gone out of their way to help you use technology? Would you like her/him to be recognised? If so, let us know!
NUTELA is offering two peer recognition awards this year. We are looking for nominations of staff members who have contributed to peer support or the mentoring of others learning about and/or working with technology.
It might be someone who has helped you understand the purpose of a specific learning technology, or someone who has been instrumental in progressing Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) initiatives in your unit. You are welcome to nominate any member of staff at Newcastle University.
The nomination process is simple. In 500 words or less, just answer these two questions and send your response to nutelaops@ncl.ac.uk.
- How has this staff member contributed to your learning, working or development with TEL?
- How has this contributed to the Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Strategy
The deadline is April 30, 2015. NUTELA will review the applications and make a decision. All nominees will be told they have been nominated, and will be invited to present their work at the year-end NUTELA conference in June, 2015. The award will be presented by Suzanne Cholerton, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) and the winners will be invited to the Vice-Chancellor’s Celebrating Success event.
Laura Delgaty
Chair
NUTELA
l.e.delgaty@ncl.ac.uk
Reciprocal links with the Archaeology of Portus
One of the great things about FutureLearn is the opportunity to work with partner institutions. For example, we have seem many synergies between our Hadrian’s Wall course and Southampton University’s Archaeology of Portus. We see learners in Hadrian’s Wall discussing and recommending Portus or referring to specific steps and activities, and even continuing dialogue with fellow learners they met through Portus.
Professor Graeme Earle (lead educator on Portus) has added links between steps in the Archaeology of Portus and other MOOCs including Hadrian’s Wall, which we have reciprocated. Learners can more easily see and follow connections between the courses (see links below the two courses below). Currently, users have to be signed up to both courses for this to work. If FutureLearn realise the plan to make individual steps more open (viewable without signing up to the course) this will become even more powerful.
Graeme’s post: Hadrian’s Wall cross references
Pizza Pop and Practice – Learning and teaching off campus – 20th Feb 2015
Office (at home) Fabio Bruna CC BY 2.0.
This Practice based workshop was the third of four focused on helping you improve your teaching practice with hands on support. We covered:
- How do I map drives on my computer?
- How can I access resources away from campus?
- How can I access software away from campus?
- Who can help me with: Filr, RAS (Remote Application Service), EndNote?
- How can I teach virtually: Lync (Skype), Adobe Connect?
Handout – Lync and Adobe Connect for meetings and teaching remotely (pdf)
Other relevant resources in response to questions on the day:
- Software Licence information, what’s available across campus and what is available to staff on home devices:
- Remote Desktop Connections off-campus
- Sofware Available on RAS
- Software Requests for RAS and Clusters
Why should you join us in The Enterprise Shed?
As we watch signup figures rise day by day for out third free online course with FutureLearn, The Enterprise Shed: Making Ideas Happen, Katie Wray, Lead Educator, for the course explores why we should all be joining her in The Enterprise Shed…
Firstly, let me unpack ‘enterprise’. For me, enterprise is about making creativity, problem solving and ideas practical. This makes it relevant across all areas of education, not just business. Where enterprise is applied to creating a new venture, it is commonly known as ‘entrepreneurship’. We are increasingly aware of entrepreneurship, through the steady creation of new businesses (particularly in austere times), but also through the media. From this awareness we can each draw our own conclusions about what an entrepreneur is? The Enterprise Shed challenges a variety of definitions of an entrepreneur and looks at enterprise and entrepreneurship at a grassroots level. On the course you will be introduced to a whole bunch of entrepreneurial individuals and teams, not all of whom refer to themselves as ‘an entrepreneur’.
So if you can be ‘entrepreneurial’ (behave like an entrepreneur) without actually being an entrepreneur (starting a new business venture), who is ‘entrepreneurial’ and what can you do with your ‘entrepreneurialness’*? We are committed to exploring this with you throughout the course, and to supporting each participant to draw their own conclusions about how they can make change in their own context. Our other commitment is to exploring your ideas, to collecting insights into what a solution looks like, and to help you to turn that idea into something tangible.
This course is about you; it is about your role, through your ideas, in making change. There are 3 main reasons why you should commit 3 hours per week, for 4 weeks to The Enterprise Shed:
- You will develop confidence in yourself as a ‘doer’. You will do this through analysing the behaviours of other entrepreneurial people that you will be introduced to on the course, and drawing conclusions about the way that they ‘do’ and what you might ‘do’ when approaching your own challenges, problems and projects.
- You will discover ideas that address problems you want to play a role in changing. You will do this through identifying problems, sharing them with others, creating and collaborating on ideas generation, and developing solutions together with peers on the course.
- You will have the opportunity to meet people and build networks. WE will do this by forming virtual and physical networks around the globe, which can outlive the end of the course. You will meet people that share your passions and drivers to make change in your world, find out where you can go for help, and collaborate to achieve impact.
The Enterprise Shed is not just a course, but a place where you can go to think, and critically, to do. Join us from 30th March 2015 in The Enterprise Shed and make your ideas happen.
Rebecca Fisher, Entrepreneurial Development Officer in our Careers Service, who is helping Katie develop the course wrote recently about what that experience is like over at the Rise Up blog.