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Published on Leave a comment on Excel online survey

As microsoft develops its on-line tools it is catching up with google.  One area of this is the on-line survey tool.  You can set up a simple survey and the results appear in a spreadsheet.

This may be the solution to enabling people to register for my CPD programme and other admin functions.

I would like to get a copy of the form by email as a notification - and am looking into that.

Am learning how to use pivot tables as part of that - very useful, turns a spreadsheet into a simple database.

Published on Leave a comment on Student engagement

This image was posted on Facebook by Mindshift with a link to an article on their blog biy.ly/1hNnFPm. (the article is an interesting discussion of a report on schools in the USA)

This highlights for me the oversimplification of the argument about student engagement - is it a simple one-dimensional concept.  Is rebellion a sign of diverted attention and lack of commitment?

I was reminded how the discussion at the Higher Education Academy conference was dominated by the concept without any critical analysis.  The experience was highlighted for me as I was reading the introduction to the Ignorant Schoolmaster  by Paul Ranciere at the time about the debate within the French left around 1968 - should students rebel against the hierarchical structure of higher education, or use it to learn the theories and analysis they need to be good revolutionaries.

Where is the political discussion of student engagement?

Published on Leave a comment on Creative academic

Creative academic - HOME: "Creative Academic is a not for profit, voluntary and community-based educational social enterprise. Our purpose is to champion creativity, in all its manifestations, in higher education in the UK and the wider world. Our goal is to become a global HUB for the production and curation of resources that are of value to the higher education community. Membership is free and open to anyone who shares our interests and values."

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Published on Leave a comment on Cultural Studies of Science Education, Vol. 9, Issue 3 – New Issue Alert
 I received this some time ago and it looks a really interesting resource but haven’t had the time to read the articles as yet.
 In this issue:
Marxism in Vygotskian approaches to cultural studies of science education
Paulo Lima Junior , Fernanda Ostermann & Flavia Rezende
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A dialogue on dialectics
Mark Zuss
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Forum
Plastic brains and the dialectics of dialectics
Andrew Loxley , Colette Murphy & Aidan Seery
Abstract   
Forum
Quasi-appropriation of dialectical materialism: a critical reading of Marxism in Vygotskian approaches to cultural studies in science education
André Rodrigues , Juliano Camillo & Cristiano Mattos
Abstract   
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Understanding the limits of Marxist approaches to sociocultural studies of science education
Paulo Lima Junior , Fernanda Ostermann & Flavia Rezende
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Scepticism and doubt in science and science education: the complexity of global warming as a socio-scientific issue
Tom G. K. Bryce & Stephen P. Day
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Beyond evidence: a critical appraisal of global warming as a socio-scientific issue and a reflection on the changing nature of scientific literacy in school
L. Colucci-Gray
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Scepticism and trust: two counterpoint essentials in science education for complex socio-scientific issues
Peter J. Fensham
Abstract   
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Debate on global warming as a socio-scientific issue: science teaching towards political literacy
Wildson Luiz Pereira dos Santos
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A cultural historical activity theory perspective to understand preservice science teachers’ reflections on and tensions during a microteaching experience
Asli Sezen-Barrie , Minh-Dan Tran , Scott P. McDonald & Gregory J. Kelly
Abstract   
Different habitus: different strategies in teaching physics? Relationships between teachers’ social, economic and cultural capital and strategies in teaching physics in upper secondary school
Susanne Engström & Carina Carlhed
Abstract   
From authoritative discourse to internally persuasive discourse: discursive evolution in teaching and learning the language of science
Pei-Ling Hsu & Wolff-Michael Roth
Abstract   
A journey of negotiation and belonging: understanding students’ transitions to science and engineering in higher education
Henriette Tolstrup Holmegaard , Lene Møller Madsen & Lars Ulriksen
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Published on Leave a comment on Using Microsoft Office

Since the College where I work has instigated a managed desktop strategy I have had to move over to using microsoft office where previously I have used a variety of tools. This blog is a reflective account of the development of my use of office and other MS tools.

In the past I use gmail and activeinbox as my email and task management system (on the basis that emails are tasks and need to be managed as such.  Some time ago we were banned from using Gmail for work and so over the last couple of years I moved initially to Thunderbird but have now moved to Outlook.

Outlook

I now use outlook for mail, calendar and tasks.  In order to make that work for me I spent some time adjusting the views in tasks.  I use the flagging of emails to add to my to do list.

Email

Outlook works well, address books a bit unreliable as I have my personal contacts and the College address book and it is not clear which is searched for autocompletion of addresses.
Tagging email as tasks works well. 
I still use Followupthen.com to out emails off for a while, and to remind me if I don't get a response to an email.

Calendar

Outlook works well.  I like the way in which I can send a copy of my calendar in an email when arranging a meeting.

Tasks

Outlook works well - although I would like a hierarchical system - although my onenote solution works well and allows for flexibility. 

Onenote

I moved my reflections from evernote to onenote.  Onenote is more structured and I find myself using it more as a bucket for information (my approach to tie management  is influenced by GTD - bucket is a GTD term).

I find it so useful I find myself needing to avoid using it for everything and overloading it!

I like the links to Outlook tasks and for projects have a task list structure in a project management type structure on Onenote and then make each line a task in outlook.

I share some note books with colleagues.

I use the link with Outlook Calendar to make meeting notes for most of my meetings.

I am increasingly using tables and linking them to excel spreadsheets to maximise their use.

Onedrive

I am waiting for the College to set up Onedrive for Business which apparently they will be doing.  In the meantime I am using a personal accounts to:
  • make my current documents available on all devices (we have been using Dropbox at work so I have linked the two using cloudhq.net to syns the two - but we are giving up dropbox and that will cause problems).
  • sharing documents is easy
  • embedding documents into the VLE works very well
  • the online excel survey tool is very good and has suggested a solution to my scheme record keeping problem - will post on that later
Thats enough for a first post!
I will post again on what I am trying to do and what I find works and doesn't.

I have now moved this blog to my wordpress site where it sits under the category Academic practice/using microsoft office

Published on Leave a comment on FW: PESTLHE (Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) Special Issue – OUT NOW

 

Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education has just published its latest issue at http://community.dur.ac.uk/pestlhe.learning/index.php/pestlhe. This is a special issue with a selection of papers from the HEA Wales 2014 Future Directions Conference. 

 

We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.

 

In  2015 we are also planning a special edition on 'Threshold Concepts' on 2015 as well as two standard issues in April and October 2015 - submissions welcome throughout the year. If you have an idea for a special edition then again let us know and we may be able to help.

 

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,

 

Kind regards

Jane

 

 

 

Vol 10, No 1 (2015)

Table of Contents

HEA Wales Special Issue 2015

HEA Wales Future Directions Conference Special Issue - Guest Editorial;

ABSTRACT PDF

Helena Lim, Nick Potter

1-2

 

Using student dialogue sheets to inspire teaching

ABSTRACT PDF

Mary Jacob, Grace Burton

3-17

 

From despair to somewhere: activating students in a distance learning environment

ABSTRACT PDF

Karen Foley, Dave Middleton, Ian Fribbance

18-32

 

'Skills for employability? No need thanks, we're radiographers!'

ABSTRACT PDF

Keren Williamson

33-53

 

Learning in and for the workplace - technologies that deliver

ABSTRACT PDF

Jeffrey Lewis

54-66

 

Initial Professional Development: A case study in embedding employability in an undergraduate psychology degree programme.

ABSTRACT PDF

Alison Walker

67-83

 

Preventing Decay: Collaborative partnership between students and staff to prevent deterioration of dental undergraduate practical skills

ABSTRACT PDF

Susan Mary Jenkins, Keith Wills, Sarah Pick, Sarah Al-Kutubi

84-101

 

Developing flexible learning degree programmes for early childhood practitioners: using students' perceptions to inform programme development and promote widening access.

ABSTRACT PDF

Glenda Wyn Tinney, Ann-Marie Gealy

102-119

 

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Published on Leave a comment on Mindmapping and PBL

A couple of resources on mindmapping and Problem Based Learning.

 

 

A prezi presentation on the PBL process http://prezi.com/t_-sasj4femd/pbl-mind-map/

 

On pub med I found this article - Clin Teach. 2010 Dec;7(4):236-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1743-498X.2010.00395.x.

Mind mapping as a teaching resource.

Edwards S1, Cooper N.

 

 

An article on using mindmaps in PBL - http://www.cetl.hku.hk/conference2010/pdf/Fonteijn.pdf

 

A study done on the use of mindmaps for study in SMD at Queen Mary - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2923.2002.01205.x/abstract

 

David Andrew

HEA CPD Manager
Senior Tutor
 


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