#BYOD4L V – This Time it’s Personal

Fresh and Crispy

Back in January for its fifth run is the excellent Bring Your Own Device for Learning (#BYOD4L) online CPD-fest. Covering the 5Cs, Connecting, Communicating, Curating, Collaborating and Creating, this “course” aims to share great ideas and build communities. Concentrating on portable educational technology that you can use with yourself, your colleagues and your students, you’re guaranteed to discover something that will enable you and them to be more effective. And at the same time you’ll find yourself becoming part of a growing community of like-minded souls.

I’ve participated three times already and it’s a really rewarding if hectic 5 days. This year’s facilitators will be Sheila MacNeil (@sheilamcn, Alex Spiers (@alexgspiersand Neil Withnell (@neilwithnell and they introduced the course by web-cast during yesterday’s final day of the ALT Winter Conference. You can find out more and a recording of the web-cast here:
#BYOD4L V – this time…

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Reflection on demand?

Phil Race on reflection that on reflection starts to make sence to a reflection agnostic like me.

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Reflective practitioners? Reflection on action? Reflection in action? But what are the conditions when real reflection is more likely to happen? What kinds of evidence of reflection may there be? Do any of these lead to sensible metrics to try to ‘measure’ reflection? Are there indeed any realistic, objective assessment criteria which can be applied to evidence of reflection? And how is one supposed to compose some reflective writing anyway? Too many questions! Is composing this little piece for SEDA helping me to reflect? Well, hopefully.

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MCQ-writing: a bibliography in no particular order (Part 1)

Great resource for colleagues in the College of Engineering

Random acts of learning

So, having asked lots of folk for their suggestions around MCQ-writing, I have had some great suggestions of papers and books. Here is the list (part one – in the hope that there will be a part two 🙂 ) in particular order at all:

• Developing and Validating Multiple-choice Test Items by Thomas M. Haladyna (Routledge; 3 edition (2 Jun. 2004))
• The College Instructor’s Guide to Writing Test Items: Measuring Student Learning Outcomes in the College Classroom by Michael Rodriguiz (Routledge (8 Jun. 2017))
• A Review of Multiple-Choice Item-Writing Guidelines for Classroom Assessment (2010) by Thomas M. Haladyna , Steven M. Downing & Michael C. Rodriguez http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15324818AME1503_5
• Writing Multiple-Choice Test Items That Promote and Measure Critical Thinking (2001) by Susan Morrison & Kathleen Walsh http://www.healio.com/nursing/journals/jne/2001-1-40-1/%7B73d1724a-7e63-427c-9198-37b41a66e982%7D/writing-multiple-choice-test-items-that-promote-and-measure-critical-thinking

• Education techniques for lifelong learning: writing multiple-choice questions for continuing medical education activities and self-assessment modules (2006) by Jannette Collins http://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/rg.262055145

• Writing Multiple Choice Questions by Ruth-Marie Fincher…

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#262 Sli.do [1/2]: Shy students not asking questions? Try Sli.do

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In large lecture spaces it can sometimes be difficult to encourage students to speak up. Sli.do provides an platform for students to ask questions, either anonomously or not, which can then be viewed and upvoted by others in the group.

Sli.do has a free to use function which can be used with up to 1000 participants. The paid for versions give you some extra features and control.

Interested in other tools for classroom interactivity? Check out our other #1minuteCPD videos.

Featured image: “Audience” by kristarella licenced under CC BY-SA 2.0

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#202 Getting started with WordPress blogs [1/6]: Setting up an account

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WordPress is a very easy (and free) to use blogging tool, in fact, our very own #1minuteCPD blog has been set up in WordPress, and we love it!

Blogging is a great way to build on your reflective practice, encourage reflective practice in your students, build a community and share resources or even as an eportfolio.

In this mini-series we will go through the main steps in getting you up and running with WordPress, starting with how to set up your account:

Featured Image: “I love wordpress” by Adriano Gasparri licenced under CC BY-SA 2.0

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#LTHEchat 51: Networks of distributed creativity with Laura Gogia, Frances Bell and Catherine Cronin

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We – Laura Gogia, Frances Bell and Catherine Cronin – have worked for the last year on preparing an interactivesymposium forNetworked Learning 2016 that looks at the Networked Learning Community in the context of other communities and networks in open and connected learning. Not wishing to confine ourselves to the face to face symposium we are reaching out to others, before, during and after.

So LTHEchat community – will you engage with us and share your ideas? Will you become nodes in this broader network? Can we become nodes in your broader networks? How do you bridge different networks and communities in which you work and learn?

We want to hear your ideas and bring them to our symposium — on negotiating openness as educators and learners; blending informal and formal learning spaces; and the potential as well as the limits of the networks. We will, of course…

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BYOD4L is back next week

Colleagues may be interested in joining me in participating in #byod4l from 11-15 January 2016.

BYOD4L

Dear colleagues,

Happy New Year to you all!

We would like to bring the following to your attention:

‘Bring Your Own Device for Learning’ course (or short BYOD4L)

11-15 January 2016

BYOD4L is a bite-size facilitated open course offered over 5 days for educators and students  in HE but also anybody else who would like to learn with us as to how we can utilise our digital devices for professional, lifelong and lifewide learning.

Together we will explore the following topics based on the 5C Framework:

• connecting
• communicating
• curating
• collaborating
• creating

Using an inquiry-based approach that will enable us to learn with others and/or on your own within a supportive community. You are very welcome to join one or all of the above topics and work towards an open badge or two 😉 There will be seven open badges available in total. One for each topic, one for the…

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#6 Change your Google image settings for only images labeled for reuse

Great tip if you’re concerned about copyright infringement in you teaching resources.

#1minuteCPD

This video will show you how to tweak your settings in Google to filter images that are marked as commercially useable (some conditions may apply).

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Showcasing the York TEL Handbook at the ALT Online Winter Conference

Source: Showcasing the York TEL Handbook at the ALT Online Winter Conference

Learning about Blended Learning

Colleagues may be interested in the following activities taking place around Technology Enhanced Learning:

1. Blended Learning Essentials on FutureLearn (#FLble1). This five week introduction to Blended learning, which started on 2nd November, is aimed at teachers working in the Vocational, Education and Training (VET) sector but is highly relevant to us who are working in HE. At the time of writing, it’s the start of week three, but as this is a blended learning course it’s not too late to join in.
2. 5 Days of Twitter (#SU5DoT) started today and is for all colleagues who are interested in giving Twitter a go. It’s being run by Sam Oakley and Elen Davies from the Library. As the title says, five days to learn twitter and find out what it’s useful for in research and teaching.
3. 12 Apps of Christmas is another on-line course starting 1st December which promises to introduce a new educational app every day in the run up to the Christmas Vacation. Each app may be useful for your teaching and your students’ learning and you are promised hands on introductions. The course is taking enrolments now!

If you are interested in Blended Learning don’t forget to complete our staff survey that is the first step to determining a Blended Learning strategy for the college. The survey is being hosted on Google Drive at http://bit.ly/1RYYNCn. We’ll be posting the results here in due course.