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).

PowerPoint alternatives - including PechaKucha

How else can you use PowerPoint? What can you use instead of PowerPoint? This demonstration seminar that I gave highlighted some examples and applications that you can use, including PechaKucha (10 years on).

A summary of examples and resources is in this SpicyNodes mindmap...

Text to speech

When I was asked recently about text to speech, I became diverted because there are many options. 

I had a reunion with lost friends, looked at different voices and characters and found a variety of resources.

In the end, I discovered that the person wanted a voice to read her text documents while she was commuting. I found some useful, recently published items too.

Here's the full article, presented as a Mahara page.

Moodle for colleagues working in the library

I created a Moodle course/web with several items, including selective release, images in the blocks, RSS feeds.

I used selective release to enable participants decide which topics they wanted to see.  Also they needed to add a message to the forum and an item in the glossary to release more items.

I created a guide to give instructions for access and made the course a self-enrolment with a key.

I presented it today to 28 library colleagues. They all managed to access it and all did most of the activities.

I'm sure that they learnt more than just a demonstration.