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Award Winning Staff Development!
Learning Services have been named a winner of the 2014 Blackboard Catalyst Award programme for Staff Development, which honours all those involved who have leveraged Blackboard technologies to internally support the ‘Developing Digital Excellence’ program and those who delivered an array of professional and innovative training sessions to Edge Hill University staff.
The Staff Development Award is part of the annual and global Blackboard Catalyst Awards programme in which Edge Hill University was one of only four winners from the UK. The award was received during the 2014 Blackboard Teaching & Learning Conference – held at University College Dublin. The conference is the largest of its kind outside of North America, which brings together heads of teaching & learning, educators, course designers, system administrators, and eLearning managers engaged in managing the provision of technology enhanced learning for institutions from over 20 countries.
This exciting achievement recognises the impressive growth of online session delivery and the blended provision of resources, content and specifically, Learning Services’ strategic approach to promote the educational affordances of Blackboard Collaborate to staff at Edge Hill University.
Why not try the award winning ‘Developing Digital Excellence’ programme this month? We have a number of events in May within the Digital Practitioner and Digital Office strands, including sessions which we are delivering during Learning at Work Week 19th – 25th May.
The Digital Practitioner:
Future Gazing: Exploring Tomorrow’s Technologies today : 20th May, 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Learn and Interact at the Touch Of A QR Code : 22nd May, 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Learn About Campus Pack: ePortfolios : 23rd May, 1.00pm – 2.00pm
The Digital Office:
Excel 1 – Getting Started with Formulas using Excel 2010 : 13th May, 9:30am – 11:00am
Excel 2 – Functions and Workbook Management : 29th May, 9:30am – 11:30am
Please book online via the HR Staff Development booking system. You can see the full list of the sessions within the Developing Digital Excellence programme and book those you would like to attend. Feel free to post a comment on here if you have any questions. You can also get in touch with us at [email protected] or call 01695 650754 if you would simply like to know more!
Mark Wilcock
Learning Technology Development Officer
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Developing Digital Excellent staff development programme
Here is your chance to get involved in our award winning programme. Sorry couldn’t resist mentioning we have won a prize!. (There will be more news and information in a blog post next week when Mark Wilcock gets back from the Blackboard Conference with the award).
We have a number of events in May within the Digital Practitioner and Digital Office strands, including sessions which we are delivering during Learning at Work Week 19th – 25th May. Those particular events which we would like everyone to get invovled in, we will promote further in the run up to the week.
The Digital Practitioner
Electronic Assessment Management – Using the right tools 6th May 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Successfully managing online marking – A guide to using the Grade Centre in Blackboard 8th May 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Your Digital Tattoo – What the web says about you! Professional and employable digital identities 13th May 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Future Gazing: Exploring Tomorrow’s Technologies today 20th May 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Learn And Interact At The Touch Of A QR Code 22nd May 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Learn About Campus Pack 23rd May 1.00pm – 2.00pm
The Digital Office
POWERPOINT 1 –Intro to On-Screen Presentations 6th May 9:30am – 11:30am
EXCEL 1 – Getting Started with Formulas using Microsoft Excel 2010 13th May 9:30am – 11:00am
EXCEL 2- Functions and Workbook Management 29th May 9:30am – 11:30am
Please book online via the HR Staff Development booking system. You can see the full list of the sessions within the Developing Digital Excellence programme and book those you would like to attend.
If there are areas of development you feel you or your team would like to discuss, please get in touch with myself or Elaine Czotter
Rachel Bury [email protected]
Elaine Czotter [email protected]
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Introduction to Profiles and Social Learning Tools in Blackboard
Blackboard’s ‘Social Learning Tools’ form a small scale social networking style environment within Blackboard, which your students can use outside of their course areas. They include the Profile tool, People tool, Messages tool, and Spaces tool.The Profile tool will be the one you are most likely to have noticed. The profile pictures feed into Blackboard’s discussion tool, making it easier to see who posted what. The pictures are also used throughout the Social Learning Tools, which you can access through the Global Navigation link at the top right of the Blackboard environment, which has your name on it.
We have written a staff focused overview guide about the Social Learning Tools and a more in depth one about the Spaces tool.
The Social Learning Tools were improved as part of the Blackboard Community upgrade to our system, and a recent update adds important features. The update ensures that students have agreed to Blackboard’s terms of service before they use the tools, and they will be reminded of the section of Edge Hill University’s IT Acceptable Use Policy that relates to social networking type activity. Also, they will have more control over your own information as they will be able to delete their profiles while they are a student with access to Blackboard. Inactive account holders will be notified after 12 months that their profile will be deleted, so even if they don’t get round to deleting their profile it won’t be there forever.
