Mullett's Corner

AJ Cann - http://flic.kr/p/7nMoyC Just finished the first of our student inductions for 2013/2014, It wasn't the biggest one we've had, four students to be precise. However our new reworked structure seemed to go down well. The slides have been tidied up and we more clearer define the differences between the intranet/VLE/e-portfolio. We have also started emphasising the importantance of reflective journaling and the use of e-portfolios, promoting our institution provided Mahara installation. When given the usual choice of what the presenter should focus on next our friend Twitter reigned supreme again with a joint 2nd going to Diigo and Goodle Drive. After going through the motions I asked the students a new question we have in there, asking if they will take any further action or investigate what we have talked about.  100% Yes was the answer from the students, which is nice to see. Still a bit of tweaking to do and maybe throw in some more interactive clicker qu...

Michael Porter -  http://flic.kr/p/Ybv7 Do you like my shoes? Unfortunately most of the students in my student induction sessions chose option 3, 'I don't really care' :( Luckily this is only our ice breaker question to firstly let students use the clickers and secondly to get across the informality of the session. We adopt the use of TurningPoint clickers in our student induction sessions, with the main focus being on letting the students steer the session to what they want to talk about.. yes there is an underlying motive of gathering data about social network use and students technical capabilities. We have shifted what we talk about into two sections, the institutionally owned software (VLE, E-Portfolio) and the individually owned software which consists of Twitter, Diigo, Mahara, Google Docs.  For the institutionally owned software we run through the usual support protocols for each service and a quick demo of login procedures, we also talk about what ...

Reith Lectures -  http://flic.kr/p/6q5y8N I did post this on the Elevate Blog, however I felt it needed to be here as well :) The latest intake of students at UCS were graced with the Elevate Team's presence during the student inductions, to not only go over our current institution services such as the VLE and the E-portfolio system but to empower students to look at personal learning networks and other Web 2 tools outside of UCS. Demonstrating the benefits of such tools as twitter, diigo etc This has changed greatly from our old student induction approach which was very point and click orientated mainly focusing around the VLE. It seems as though our new approach has certainly guided some students into trying some of the tools we suggested, below is a comment from a student who decided to have a play with twitter.  "Further to our conversation earlier today, I write to continue my eulogising about Twitter as a resource which has helped me immensely with my pos...