With yesterdays information and training session on the Podcasting@CPUT project, this year’s RIFTAL project kicked off!
The interest was amazing, 28 lecturers made it to the session and joined a lively discussion around the usefulness of podcasting for Teaching and Learning at CPUT.
Presentation 23 02 2012
Podcasts 23 02 2012
For more information visit our Podcasting@CPUT project page!
Last week we spent three amazing days in Second Life, one of main Virtual Worlds used in Education all over the world. Denise Wood, Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Media Arts in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia, facilitated a three-day workshop at UWC on the use of Second Life in Teaching and Research.
Virtual worlds can be used very interestingly for roleplay and simulations in Education. There are amazing historical or ecological sites, you could take your students to. Denise has also done amazing ethnographic research around how Second Life can support people who are isolated in their “First Life”, due to e.g. disabilities.
This is a short presentation I found on Slideshare on Second Life
And some useful links:
Alternative Viewers (faster than the Second Life viewer)
Alternative to Second Life (open sims)
Examples for education
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Top_20_Educational_Locations_in_Second_Life
Edinburgh Second Life site: http://vue.ed.ac.uk/
Presentation at RITAL 2011: The transformative nature of emerging technologies – lecturers perspectives at CPUT
Unfortunately I havent found the time yet to play around and embed a prezi in WordPress…any tips are greatly appreciated!
So here the link: http://prezi.com/lef7iqd8tfs5/the-transformative-nature-of-emerging-technologies/
This is our presentation at the 2011 HELTASA conference in Port Elizabeth
This is our presentation at the first CPUT Teaching and Learning with Technology day on findings of the 2010 CPUT ICT survey.
Reports are available through the MIS website under institutional research.
On the 2nd of November 2011 Fundani and the Center for eLearning launched the first CPUT Teaching and Learning with Technology Day.
The day offered a packed programme including 3 key note speeches, 10 presentations, 3 open discussions, 3 workshops and show and tell sessions. One of the presentations was broadcasted to 40 academics via the SATN’s Elluminate platform, including participants from 4 other Universities of Technology and 3 of the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arabic Emirates.
Feedback was very positive:
“Congratulations to you for making this day a reality – what a wonderful start to an event that I hope will become an annual event on the Fundani calendar.”, Marianne Bester, HoD Curriculum Development, Fundani, CPUT
“I would like to echo all those who think that yesterday’s event was a big success.” Sakkie Smit, Director Center for eLearning, CPUT
“I will be remiss if I fail also to congratulate Eunice, Daniela, Linda, Chris and the entire Fundani team for the wonderful organization. I really enjoyed it. Well done and keep it up. ” Dr Chris Nhlapo, DVC Research, CPUT
“THANK YOU SO MUCH for creating this absolutely fantastic day. All around me I see staff taking notes frantically and getting really excited about the possibilities of elearning. I am sure this will go a long way towards rejuvenating the way in which we teach at CPUT and specifically in FID.”, Prof Johannes Cronje, Dean Faculty of Informatics and Design, CPUT
Presentations, videos and podcasts of the event accessible here.
