The next 3Ps: Pizza Pop and Practice workshop will take place on 29th November 2016.
The topic is ‘Dialogues’ and draws together sessions on storytelling using Microsoft Sway and the complexities of designing materials accessible to all students.
The event will take place between 12 and 2pm in the Hope and Tees Clusters of the Robinson Library.
There will, of course, be pizza and pop available before the workshops begin.
Please do register here.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The next 3Ps: Pizza Pop and Practice workshop will take place on 29th November 2016.
The topic is ‘Dialogues’ and draws together sessions on storytelling using Microsoft Sway and the complexities of designing materials accessible to all students.
The event will take place between 12 and 2pm in the Hope and Tees Clusters of the Robinson Library.
There will, of course, be pizza and pop available before the workshops begin.
Please do register here.
We look forward to seeing you there!
You can find more about Gilly’s work on her website.
The event will take place in the Doctoral Training Centre, Fifth Floor, Daysh Building 8.30-11am.
NUTELA will be hosting another of their successful 3Ps workshops on 20th May.
As usual the workshop will take place from 12-2pm, with plenty of pizza and pop and lashings of practice.
The theme for this session is flipped classroom and there will be number of sessions exploring what this term really means, how it can be useful and plenty of examples of good practice from across the University.
The event will be held in the Committee Room in the Robinson Library.
To register, just fill out the online form.
NUTELA is delighted to announce that we will be celebrating the winners and nominees of our inaugral Peer Recognition Awards, with a feast of pizza, plonk, pop and practice!
To be held at the University’s swanky new Marjorie Robinson Rooms on Sandyford Road, the event will take place on Friday 4th March at 3.30pm.
It will showcase best practice as well as rewarding the hard work of staff who go above and beyond to help colleagues to employ technology in their teaching.
Pro-Vice Chancellor for Learning and Teaching Suzanne Cholerton will present awards to our 2015 award winners, Graeme Patterson (CEGS) and Gigi Herbert (Careers).
The winners will talk about their award-winning practice and there will be posters to celebrate the work of runners-up.
Details of this year’s competition will also be available at the event.
We hope that you will join us!
To do so please fill out the online form.
Researchers from the School of Medical Education have won funding for a project which interviews future students to discover what they might expect from their University learning experience.
Laura Delgaty, Lynne Rawles, Joanna Matthan, Sally Munford and Claire Guilding submitted a proposal to the University’s Innovation Fund in order to complete the work.
The project looks specifically at how young people use technology and the sorts of technologies they may expect from their future learning environment.
The project also ties in with the University’s own five-year strategy to enhance their digital capability to ensure that they are catering to the needs of future generations of students.
Principal Investigator Laura Delgaty said: ‘What was really interesting was talking to these 15/16 year olds and hearing how they actually use technology.
‘We were incredibly surprised by the things that were really important to them because they were not necessarily the things that we thought.’
The project encouraged school students across Tyne and Wear to consider what attracted them to certain types of technology
‘For most of them the most important thing was that all of the software they were being asked to use could work on a number of different devices, allowing them to choose what brand of phone or i-pad etc. they wanted without being tied to a certain brand or model.
‘Obviously they asked for lots of chargers to be available but one really surprising thing was that they said that they expected fresh drinking water to be available in all teaching spaces.
‘That was just something that we’d never thought about, but I think these students are very alive to healthy lifestyle choices and drinking water is something that they expect the learning environment.’
‘It was amazing the amount of time these school students put in on answering the questions and the amount of detail they went into.
‘Some even described how they wanted different spaces to smell!
‘But what really came across was that they don’t think of technology as something new or separate. This will help contribute to the way we think about our five year strategy.
‘They think of it as something that is just there, that is just always part of their lives and which should be easy and functional and barely noticeable.’
The Innovation Fund supports projects which aim to provide innovative approaches to learning and teaching in the University.
This project was successful in the Strategic Project strand the call for this semester’s strategic strand closes on 15th January 2016.
There is also a Postgraduate Innovation Fund competition for innovative approaches to postgraduate learning or to enhancing the postgraduate experience.
Interested in applying for the Innovation Fund? Apply online or contact innovfund@ncl.ac.uk for more information.
NUTELA will hold it’s first Pizza, Pop and Practice workshop of this academic year in the Tees Cluster at the Robinson Library on Friday 27th November 2015.
The workshop, entitled Sound and Vision in Teaching, will showcase techniques to use video and sound editing software to create short film sequences and audio recordings for teaching.
As well as vast quantities of FREE PIZZA and POP over lunchtime, the event will offer a series of short workshops to show participants how to use Microsoft Mix to put together or mix up words and images, Vine and Animoto to make short animations and Audacity to record short sound clips.
See Animoto in action and learn more about the event:
https://animoto.com/play/YcUFoKFhQkZG2Z8817siog
Participants must register for catering purposes.
We look forward to seeing you there!
NUTELA Award winner Graham Patterson has been spearheading innovative technology-led teaching in the School of Civil Engineering and Geomatics.
Graham has worked extensively with staff to oversee the adoption of mobile Android-devices to support teaching and learning across the School.
Graham said: ‘We started using Android tablets three years ago, giving one to each student in their first year
‘They get used for all sorts of things. We use software called Responseware to get feedback in lectures, polling students on the correct answers to questions or to see if they understand.
‘We’ve also used it to replace paper handouts which we used to use a lot, so now students can download PDFs before lectures.
‘We have worked with staff over the last three years to format these PDFs so that there is room for a slide or diagram and then for the student to take notes as the lecture goes on.’
At the beginning of their first term Graham and academic lead on the project, CEGS Teaching Associate Henny Mills organise three sessions to introduce the students to the technology.
The first session is aimed at familiarising them with the device and the Android operating system, the second focuses on University facilities on the tablet, such as accessing University drives and timetables and the third is a Drop-In session to address any teething problems.
Students have responded really positively to the changes and to the scheme is going from strength to strength is CEGS.
‘Students really like being able to use the tablets in practicals, as a second screen.
‘The Galaxy Note 10 was very carefully selected because it allows them to have two screens open at once, so they can be looking at a PDF and taking notes on the lecture.
‘It also allows them to view AutoCAD documents and others and has a great camera for field trips which they find useful, health and safety permitting.’
As more and more schools across the University start using responseware and other sorts of technology to enhance their learning and teaching experience, it’s becoming increasingly important to share good practice in what sorts of devices, software and support systems work.
Graham said: ‘We thought that this system was going to require a lot of technical support but actually after the initial sessions, students are very capable of using the devices provided there are no problems with the hardware.
‘We were also concerned about students using facebook and twitter in lectures and not paying attention but I think, with mobile phones and laptops, students who wanted to do that were always just going to find a way anyway.
‘We’ve made it clear to students that this is not a gimmick or a toy, it’s something they must bring to lectures and it’s something that they are responsible for.
‘Most of them respect that and use it responsibly.’
Is there an example of innovative or good practice in teaching in your school? Email: Katherine.cooper@ncl.ac.uk. For other great teaching ideas have a look at our Case Studies Database.
