Category: Work Review
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October 2015 – Work review
October is a traditionally busy time for me as the start of term kicks in. A lot of the project work gets put on hold as the support tickets fly in. This year was no exception and with a person down in the team, things were busier than usual. What was really pleasing to see…
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September 2015 – Work review
September’s highlight was the ALT-C conference where I presented an extended paper intended to challenge the uncritical acceptance of lecture capture. The rest of September involved preparation for the start of the new academic year. Cornock, M. (2015). Justifying lecture capture: the importance of student experiences in understanding the value of learning technologies. Extended paper, #867, ALT-C…
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August 2015 – Work review
August’s work review is a little late as the end of August and start of September has been busy. This month the York TEL Handbook launched, I’ve been getting my head round data tables and have been roaming the campus. And finally… I’e written and submitted my last piece of work for my MA. York TEL…
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July 2015 – Work review
This month I have been mostly writing a handbook for technology-enhanced learning practice, exploring use cases for Collaborate and meeting up with a range of people across campus. Learning design for synchronous online activities I’m pushing the use case for Collaborate, our supported webinar (online seminar) tool, at the moment as there is potential to…
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June 2015 – Work Review
This month I have been mostly making videos and talking to people. With a bit of feedback collecting too. In-class technology Following up on interest from teaching staff in being able to capture hand-written content using Replay, I spent a little time this month putting together some videos on how to use visualisers (document cameras)…
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May 2015 – Work Review
Lecture capture features highly on my agenda again, but this month I’ve also had time to co-deliver a PGCAP session on technology-enhanced learning, provide some advice for students revising and complete my penultimate MA assignment. The impact of lecture capture at York With a lot of data now to hand, I am keen to share…
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April 2015 – Work review
Online seminars, web-conferences, webinars, call them what you will… this month I started off with a comparison of the big three apps. This is April 2015’s work review. Web-conferencing recommendations At the start of the month I posted a review of Google Hangouts, Skype and Blackboard Collaborate as web-conferencing tools for the higher education sector.…
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March 2015 – Work review
As more of my work gets written up on the E-Learning Development Team blog these days, I thought it would be worth providing a monthly summary of my activities here. Screen-casting comparison Prompted by a number of requests, I wrote a comparison between Screencast-o-matic (online screen recorder), Echo360 Personal Capture (our supported program) and Camtasia 8…
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February 2015 – Work review
Back-filling, this is February’s work review summarising some of my key activities from this month. Advising Departments on Programme Sites Before I joined the E-Learning Development Team I revamped the Programme Sites within SPSW, working with the programme leaders to introduce more content that supports students’ progression through their degree programme. I also included a…