TEL:US Podcast
By @SussexTEL
TEL:US PodcastNov 02, 2018
Kevin Merry on UDL at DMU
In this episode, I'm joined by Sussex TEL colleague Matt Taylor (Learning Technologist), Learning Technologist from Brighton Fiona MacNeill and Dr. Kevin Merry, Senior Academic Development Consultant at De Montfort University (DMU).
Kevin recently gave a seminar at Sussex about the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Journey at DMU. In this show we caught up with Kevin to pick up on some of the themes that came up during his talk.
Show links:
Dr. Kevin Merry (Academic Development pages)
De Montfort University (UDL Pages)
University of Brighton eLEARNING Team blog
University of Sussex Technology Enhanced Learning on Twitter
Celia Popovic - Scholarship of teaching and learning and student partnerships
Celia Popovic is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University, Toronto, Canada. In 2019 Celia took part in a SoTL project exploring support for faculty and included undergrad students in the process. Prior to recording this podcast, Celia led a seminar for colleagues at the University of Sussex.
In this chat we picked up some themes from the seminar and from her published articles on this research.
Links:
Educational Developers Thinking Allowed
Link to seminar recording (Sussex staff only)
Get in touch with the show:
Chloe Barker: A student's tips for online teaching
Final year Psychology Student also work with the organisation Sussex Writes, penned a blog post about how to teach students online. Aimed at those teaching young people, the guidance though, is equally applicable to higher education.
Given that nearly all teaching is now online, I spoke to Chloe about her top tips and her experience as a student during the pandemic.
Links:
How to help students over Zoom blog post
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning with Professor Pam Parker
In what now seems a distant memory, our last on campus seminar was the first of the DARE to Transform seminars. Sessions to support colleagues who are on the Scholarship track at the University.
In this session Professor Pam Parker joined us from City, University of London to give an introduction to scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). You can watch a recording of the event here. For more information about the DARE to Transform network please visit the Canvas site here.
In this podcast Dan sat down with with Pam after her seminar along with our very own David Walker (Head of TEL) to speak more on the topic of SoTL.
People in this podcast
Eric Stoller talks Digital Transformation
In this episode I caught up with Eric Stoller, VP of Digital Strategy for GeckEngage. We talked digital transformation, what that means for digital skills, chatbots, recruitment and much more.
If you would like to get in touch with Eric, you can do so directly through the GeckoEngage website.
Links
Conference round up and Digital Practice Awards
In this show I caught up with fellow learning technologists Matt and Paolo to discuss the various conferences and training events we attended over the last couple of weeks. Including BETT, AUA, Microsoft Teams and the Assistive Technology Network meet up.
I also chat to our head of Technology Enhanced learning David Walked and relatively new member of staff Faye Tucknott (I may or may not have needed to ask how best to say her surname!) about the Digital Practice Awards (DPAs). The DPAs is our annual grant giving initiative to support and promote innovation in teaching and learning with technology at the University of Sussex.
As ever you can check out the links below and get in touch with us on Twitter, details below.
TEL:US Podcast Christmas and 2010s special
In the final episode of the decade, I caught up with Ant Groves during Digital Discovery Week. I also sat down with some of our team to talk over our highlights of the academic year so far, and of the decade.
Merry Christmas to all our listeners, we hope you have a wonderful festive season.
Thanks for listening.
Digital Discovery Week Preview with Beth Logan
In this show Dan caught up with Beth Logan from the Library to discuss next week's Digital Discovery Week. Find out abut the week, the highlights and how you can get involved.
Links:
- Digital Discovery Week schedule and booking: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/about/digital
- Beth Logan
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hey_Bethany
- Dan Axson
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/danaxson
- Library
- Web: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/library
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/sussexlibrary I:
- IT Services
- Web: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/its
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/ITServices
- Careers and Employability Centre
- Technology Enhanced Learning:
- Web: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/tel
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/SussexTEL
TEL:US Podcast with Keith Smyth
Keith Smyth is a Professor of Pedagogy and Head of the Learning and Teaching Academy at the University of the Highlands and Islands,
Keith visited sunny Sussex for our Summer South Coast Meet Up event in July. In this show Kitty and Paolo caught up with Keith at the event and talked about his book, digital transformation, digital skills and much more.
The book can be found here: Conceptualising the Digital University: The intersection of policy, pedagogy and practice.
Links:
Keith Smyth and is also on Twitter
Season 2 highlights with Dan and Kitty
Dan and Kitty chat about the last series of the podcast. Picking out some highlights and give you a sneak peek at what you can expect from the next season starting in September.
Thank you for listening this last year, if you haven't already please subscribe where you listen and get in touch through Twitter @SussexTEL @danaxson or @kittyrhorne
Digital Digital Discovery Week Special with Rorden Wilkinson
Online Distance Learning with Rene Moolenaar
TEL:US Podcast with Dr Maren Deepwell, Mary Krell and Dr Tamsin Hinton-Smith
Dan Axson and Kitty Horne caught up with Dr Maren Deepwell, CEO of ALT, Mary Agnes Krell, Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies and Dr Tamsin Hinton-Smith, Senior Lecturer in Higher Education. We talk about all things technology, learning technology, favorite shortcuts and apps we couldn't live without.
We also discuss their formative technology experiences, how technology and equality are an embedded aspect of the PGCertHE and how the learning technology landscape has changed over the last 12 years.
A note on audio (again...). I couldn't mic everyone, so I thought I had enough coverage with the two table top mics and a Blue Snowball, however I forgot to press record on the iPad (for the Snowball) so apologies to Kitty, who has a very quiet audio as a result.
People Groups / organisations- Association for Learning Technology (ALT)
- School of Media, Film and Music (MFM) at the University of Sussex
- School of Education and Social Work (ESW) at the University of Sussex
- Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at the University of Sussex
- Two standard table top mics into Zoom H4n
- Blue Snowball into iPad
- Forgot to press go on iPad for the Snowball (Sorry Kitty)
- Salvage audio in Adobe Audition
- Record Intro and Outro with Table top mics into Zoom H4n
- Build show in GarageBand
- Export to Anchor.fm
- Run through Otter.ai for Transcript
TEL:US Podcast with Daniel Hajas
Daniel is a PHD Student at the University of Sussex, working on tangible interfaces amongst other things in the Sussex Computer Human Interaction lab. As part of our Digital Accessibility series I caught up with Daniel about his experience of losing his sight at age 17. A crucial time in education and just as he was planning his university journey.
Daniel talks about his experience of this, the challenges and how he was supported, along with some tools he uses. Daniel finishes by giving some great advice.
A transcript will be available on the Technology Enhanced Learning website.
Links:
People
Organisations / Teams
Tools
Unmentioned resources that may be of interest
TEL:US Podcast: Dawn Green from the Karten Network
On this show I had the opportunity to chat to Dawn Green, Development Co-ordinator at the Karten Network. Dawn also chairs the technology steering group, which meets to support the work of Natspec and the TechAbility service. More details of which can be found below.
I didn't have long with Dawn, so this provides a brief overview of the work of the Karten Network. I strongly encourage you to find out more about the network, the trust and the great work that results in their investments.
Note: This was during a lunch break, so there is some background noise, apologies for that.
Until next time, thanks for listening.
Twitter:
Technology Enhanced Learning, University of Sussex
TEL:US Podcast - Digital accessibility with Dr. David Sloan of The Paciello Group
Dr. David Sloan has been working in the field of digital accessibility and inclusive design for nearly 20 years. In February he visited the University of Sussex to talk to staff about how we as an organisation and as individuals can build our own capability in this space.
After his seminar I caught up with David to ask about how he got in to this field, how the landscape has changed over the last 20 years and how it might change over the next 20 and of course asked him for his favourite shortcut.
Link to seminar video, seminar slides and transcript of this podcast
TEL:US Podcast: Online Distance Learning; building communities.
In this episode of the TEL:US podcast, Kitty Horne and I chat to René Moolenaar about his experiences of teaching one of the universities first online distant learning modules. We talk about the ways in which he builds community, promotes peer interaction and how simple tool available in Canvas help him to do this.
I also introduce two new features of the podcast; Shortcut of the Show and App of the Show. I'm a big fan of little wins that keyboard shortcuts can give. They are not the most exciting thing to talk about, so I've added reverb...
Please let us know if you have any feedback about the podcast, likewise if you want to get involved or have a contender for Shortcut of the Show.
Thanks for listening.
Links:
More information about our 100% online masters modules
Technology Enhanced Learning Website
The Campus is dead, long live the campus. Blog post.
Daily Digest of Digital Discovery Week - Friday
Daily Digest of Digital Discovery Week - Thursday
Daily Digest of Digital Discovery Week - Wednesday
Daily Digital Digest of Digital Discovery Week - Tuesday
Daily Digest of Digital Discovery Week - Monday
TEL:US Podcast: Digital Discovery Week Special Preview
TEL US. Anchor update special
Tab and Dan talk Canvas, Anchor and 360 cameras.
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twitter.com/danaxson
twitter.com/tabbanbetts
sussex.ac.uk/tel/learningtechnologies/canvas
blogs.sussex.ac.uk/tel/2017/12/11/360-degree-photography-ricoh-theta-s
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