Presentation for the Pg Cert group

Main aspects of my presentation

• Awareness of Coventry University Online technologies, including Moodle, Mahara and Turnitin
• Awareness of some accessibility issues when putting materials online and where to get more help
• Becoming more digitally literate: finding and using resources for Technology Enhancement

Here's the Mahara page that I used to display the resources that I used during my presentation.

One or two features follow...

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It's not about the Technology

http://goanimate.com/go/movie/0H9D51-PZQLQ

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Padlet example

Created with Padlet

SoftChalk tips - sessions for BB

Currently, we're using SoftChalk 7 (not Cloud).
I demonstrated some of the facilities of SoftChalk to BB and his students (final and Master's).

• Here's a link to my SoftChalk tips handout that I updated recently. 
• Here are some of SoftChalk's examples that I used. 
• And for people who need to know how to use SoftChalk, here are some of SoftChalk's own videos.
• Here's where you can find a link to a colour contrast checker.
• Finally, a link to Thunder, a free screen reader, so that you can hear what your page sounds like. Notice that Thunder's page has no scheme (style). Why?

You can download a free 30 day trial of SoftChalk from: http://www.softchalk.com

Moodle for Tutors of the Linguae Mundi courses

The organisation

Each language (10) had a Moodle course assigned to it. There was more than one tutor teaching some of the languages so groups were used in Moodle. Tutors had their own groups of students. Corresponding Moodle groups were set up and students selected the Moodle group to which they belonged. They then had access to the resources and activities that were put into Moodle by their tutor.

As a result, the training materials contained some information about groups and selective release, as well as using a Forum that has a Separate Groups setting.

Preparing Documents

To make the document more accessible, I recommended marking the language within a document and using Styles in Word. I showed some short movies that I created. They use the Word 2007 version but the options are similar.

Resources

The accessibility movies and a link to my handout for this session are all available on this page. (I created the page using Mahara.)

Digital Fluency for Library Colleagues - week 1

The icebreaker

Go to dvolver and in pairs (or you can do a soliloquy!). Create a movie with the required items and share it with me/each other.

www.dvolver.com

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More stuff

Go to the Moodle course (participants only).