Technologies to support learning at Leicester

Dr Palitha EdirisinghaBeyond Distance Research Alliance

University of Leicester, UK20 Feb 2013

Department of Media and CommunicationMS3010

Our plan…

• Who we are and what we do: our research and teaching

• Tablets and Apps..• ‘Past’ Forward: digitising the past for

future learners• Second Life• All about the Voice: podcasting• Getting connected: Adobe Connect for

remote participation and collaboration

Who we are … what we do…

Tablets and Apps..

Delivering a course to learners in conflict zones through an iPad App

Department of Criminology, University of LeicesterWebsite:http://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2012/march/criminology-pilots-use-of-ipads-and-apps-to-aid-learning-in-conflict-zones

YouTube video (3 ½ minutes):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILB5gX4w7vI

Article in the Guardian newspaperhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/feb/18/distance-learning-through-technology

‘Past’ Forward: digitising historical material for future

learners

An electronic collection of photographs, trade directories, film, oral history and books on the history of Leicester and Leicestershire.

My Leicestershire Digital Archive (MLDA)

Materials have been provided, digitised and catalogued by a partnership between

BBC Radio LeicesterEast Midlands Oral History Archive

Leicestershire Industrial History SocietyMedia Archive for Central England

Rothley Heritage Trust, Individual local historians, and

the University of Leicester.

http://myleicestershire.org.uk

Example search “Wright's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1880”

Second Life

YouTube videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMfHZUNpZY

Project website at:http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/swift

SWIFT Project

All about the (recorded) Voice: podcasting

A podcast is • a digital media file• that plays sound (or sound and visuals)• made available from a website (via the

internet, VLE)• can be opened and / or downloaded and played

on a computer, and / or• downloaded from a website (e.g., VLE) to be

played on a portable digital player(Salmon et al., 2008, p. 20)

Examples of podcasting at Leicester

Professor John Fothergill, Engineeringhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2_1WkXhbTk

Dr Ray Randall, Occupational Psychologyhttp://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/duckling

Student-created podcastshttp://www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/startinguni/

More resources herewww.impala.ac.uk

And herewww.podcastingforlearning.com

New possibilities through technology

Learning on location

Guidance and support

Improve distancelearner experience

Listening to sound, voice and learning

Learning activities

Podcasting to support student learning

Designing podcasts

http://www.atimod.com/podcasting/PDModel.html

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Length of a podcast

Recording and editing software

Audacityhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Lame encoderhttp://lame.sourceforge.net/

Appendix: How to create podcasts – practitioner’s guide (pp. 188 - 204)

Getting connected: Adobe Connect for

remote participation and collaboration

Supervision, tutorials and training workshops with Masters and PhD students

Adobe Connect collaboration environmentExamples:

BDRA PhD research training workshop - 18 Feb 2013

Student presentationshttps://connect.le.ac.uk/p3f01oklchl/

APG process (Dr Tracey Simmons) [21 minutes, 43 minutes]https://connect.le.ac.uk/p3z7f4cx746/

Writing early, writing regularly (Prof David Hawkridge) and Framing your study (Dr Chris Comber)https://connect.le.ac.uk/p87zdsculun/ [I hr 41 mins]

Thank you

• pe27@le.ac.uk