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· Cormac Mullally, AIT
HEAnet, Ireland's National Research & Education Network, has launched Edugate a new service, led by Glenn Wearen, that allows educational institutions in Ireland to share and access online resources in a far more efficient model than before. Edugate represents a new platform for easy and secure access to campus and cloud resources for the education and research community in Ireland. According to Barbara McConalogue, Director of I.S, "The Edugate project is of strategic importance for DCU and will make a great contribution to enhancing the student experience at this University" .
'Assessing First Year Students Well to Promote Retention'. The AIT Learning and Teaching Unit in conjunction with the National Digital Learning Repository (NDLR), SIF2 Flexible Learning and Student Led Learning Projects and the Learning Innovation Network (LIN) will host this workshop facilitated by Professor Sally Brown is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Diversity in Teaching and Learning at Leeds Metropolitan University. Date: Friday January 14th 2010 ITSligo/NDLR Teaching and Learning Webinar Series Teaching and Learning with Technology: Tools for on-line teaching and learning Plagiarism, intertextuality and the ethical (re-)use of information Regularly, in the Irish and international media, there are eruptions of concern about 'plagiarism' in third level institutions, invariably linked to words like 'standards', 'dumbing down', 'cheating' and, of course, 'the Internet'. From time to time higher education institutions enact new policies and procedures, investments are made in 'plagiarism detection software' and – very occasionally – some scapegoats are 'punished' as an example to others. Social Networking in Higher Education: Ethics, Tips and Pitfalls TECHSPECTATIONS EDUCATION WEBINAR SERIES 2010/11 Check out our full training programme click here.
Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/) is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Wordle is number 22 on Jane Knight's Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 and is highlighted in the 2010 Horizon Report. View this 3-minute video showing how to use it. See also IBM's Many Eyes. Guess the Google This is the greatest little game to come along in quite a while. The application produces 20 images in a collage; you guess the Google search term that produced them. The game not only sharpens your recognition skills, it also improves your typing as you try to get your guess in under the 20 second time limit. [Via Stephen Downes] Click here >> Integrating Facebook into course communication How to Succeed Online By Really Trying: A Workshop on Competencies for Teaching Online Economics for Business Lecture 4: Markets and the Macroeconomy Introduction to cascading Style Sheets If you have found a resource in the NDLR you really like then let us know!
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Welcome to the December issue of the NDLR eNewsletter. NDLR reap the rewards of the new Harvesting feature with over 15,867 resources in the repository and 66,987 The NDLR platform now has the capacity to harvest resources from other learning object repositories and has increased the number of resources from 4,900 to 15,867 overnight!! Check out the new resources>>
The Annual NDLR showcase event will be taking place in the Science Gallery, Trinity College on the 22nd March 2011. This event will include a showcase all 12 National Learning Innovation Community Support (LInCS) Projects and over 180 Local Learning Innovation Projects (LIPS) that are taking place across all 21 HE Institutions in Ireland. You can get a flavour of some of these projects at http://www.ndlr.ie/resources/lips.php. Full details of this event will be made available at http://www.ndlr.ie/
A massive thanks to all of you who braved the cold and / or attended the NDLR Institutional Coordinators meeting on 1st December. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you and the staff at your institutions for all of their hard work and dedication throughout 2010. Picture taken in Dublin Snow Blizzard below! NDLR out and about in the snow! L-R Yvonne Diggins (UL), Aisling Dundon (UL), Catherine Bruen (TCD), Ann Marcus Quinn (UL) and Sarah O Toole (IT Tralee)!!!
The NDLR has set up a new video channel on Vimeo.com http://vimeo.com/channels/ndlr. Vimeo is a video-sharing website that allows people to publish videos quickly and easily. The NDLR channel currently hosts over 180 videos on a range of subject areas and we are looking for more! If you have some videos that you feel the NDLR community would be interested in viewing send us the link or email us the file helpdesk@ndlr.ie and we can publish it for you.
Responding to the writing needs of students in your classroom. Here is a video of Ide O'Sullivan, UL and James Binchy MIC who recorded a discussion organised by the UL Centre for Teaching and Learning.
Reusable Learning Objects in Mathematics We identified two areas, Limits and Sequences and Series, which required extra material and a comprehensive series of videos, handouts and podcasts are being developed. The videos completed to-date are posted on the appropriate moodle sites for students and initial feedback has been very encouraging. We are using a number of softwares including Screenr and we are also using Articulate to present the various resources as one central file. This will be freely available for anyone to use once the project has been completed.
Maths & Computing students at GMIT have been benefiting from a new GMIT collaboration with global networking and communications company Cisco.
Head of the GMIT Department of Maths & Computing, Gabriel Hicks, says "This Cicso lecture series is an great example of how the Department of Maths & Computing is endeavoring to develop the relationship between research and teaching; a key strategy articulated in the Institute's Learning, Teaching & Assessment Strategy". **Also we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Seán who won an ITAG award 2010 (Information Technology Association Galway) for Academic Contribution to the ICT Sector - http://www.itag.ie/ITAGIndustryAwards/tabid/320/language/en-IE/Default.aspx
The Trinity Inclusive Curriculum (TIC) online self-evaluation tool is now available from https://www.tcd.ie/CAPSL/TIC/evaluation This tool, created following extensive pilots with academic staff, provides the opportunity for staff involved in teaching and assessment to self-evaluate the inclusivity of their programmes, modules or individual teaching and assessment practices.
Click here to try a sample segment from the tool.
Workshop in UCD: Familiarity breeds content - bridging the gap between online learning and social media with PeerWise 3rd UL Winter School in Social Science Research Methods Call For Articles – LEARNING TECHNOLOGY NEWSLETTER (ISSN 1438-0625) Online Workshop: Creating and Cultivating Online Communities of Practice Ask the Expert: Mindmapping Mobile Technologies - The Challenge of Learner Devices Delivering Computer Science 1st International Language Conference at NUI Galway; 10th-11th December 2010. Click here to find out more >> |
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