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Developing Digital Excellence in December – come a long for a coffee and a mince pie
As semester 1 draws to close there are a number of opportunities for staff development and maybe reflect on some of the success of the term around using the VLE and share those with us and colleagues or you might be thinking about what you can do differently next year. The sessions within our Digital Practitioner strand are sessions we have run previously but have been our most popular, especially the students’ ideal VLE
The Digital Practitioner
Your Digital Tattoo – What the web says about you! 4/12/13 1.00pm- 2.00pm
Professional and employable digital identitiesRadio Ga Ga, Host Your Own Podcast 5/12/13 12noon – 1.00pm
Learning Edge – The Students’ Ideal VLE 11/12/13 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Bring Your Course to Life With Video and Audio Content 17/12/13 12noon – 1.00pm
Another popular session in the past has been Michelle Maden providing help and guidance around beginning a systematic review so this session is running again on the 10th of December.
The Digital Researcher
Systematic Reviews: Where to Search 10/12/13 11.00am- 12:30pm
Elaine Czotter continues to provide support in terms of staff using our new email system and has two sessions, one looking at the use of the calendar and all the opportunities that can bring and also using and managing your Outlook email.
The Digital Office
Outlook calendar (new session) 4/12/13 2.00pm-3.30pm
Outlook email (new session) 5/12/13 10.00am-12.00pm
Publisher- Introduction to desk top publishing 6/12/13 1.00pm-3.00pm
ECDL Induction 10/12/13 10.00am–11.00am
We will be offering coffee and minces pies at our Christmas sessions so we hope to see you over the next few weeks.
All off the sessions are held in the ICT Staff Development training room S 5 on the second floor of the LINC Building.
Please book online via the HR Staff Development bookings
If you have any areas of development which you feel you would like more support with please don’t hesitate to get in touch, we can add sessions to our regular programme or we can provide bespoke sessions for you and your team.
Please contact me via email or telephone ex 7757 or 01695 650757
Rachel Bury
Learning Services
Academic Liaison Manager – Quality, Marketing and Communications
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Help us make our Xmas tree appy!
On Friday the 29th of November in the University Library we’re going to have some fun decorating a Christmas tree. But we’re not going to be using just any decorations! We’d like you to tell us what your favourite apps are and we’ll turn your answers into our appy decorations.
We’d love you to participate, so come and find us in the foyer between 11am – 2pm. There will be lovely chocolates for everyone who participates!
So come and join the festive fun and make our tree, well…appy!
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Skype support for students identified with SpLD (Dyslexia/Dyspraxia)
There is an exciting development planned to improve our services in terms of support for students with SpLD.
The SpLD team attended Skype training on 14 November 2013 to consider how it could be used when supporting students with SpLD (Dyslexia/Dyspraxia). The day was very informative and we were able to talk with students who already access support this way. We have been aware for sometime that students who are living or working (or both) at a distance from Edge Hill find it difficult to access the specialist support.
The team think that Skype is a great idea for students on placement or distance learners who can’t get in to the main campus for their support. The plan is to run a pilot scheme in the New Year with a view of providing support via Skype in the future.
As a service development idea, we are keen to hear your feedback as it is very important that students are involved as we consider making changes to our service. We would love to hear from you if you do feel you could benefit from using Skype for your one to one SpLD support or if you have any reservations and would like to discuss it with us. Please get in touch by emailing [email protected]
