Kevin Burden and I met today in Leicester to review our progress on the DiAL-e Framework project. The project, funded by JISC in 2007-08 has generated significant interest, two book chapters, an article in review, several project reports, a JISC hosted website, over 120 workshop participants and more besides. We decided today to revitalise this work and …
Author Archives: Dr Simon Paul Atkinson (PFHEA)
Visual Rhetoric: Prezi explanantion
Yesterday I posted some early thoughts on how visual rhetoric might be important to us in thinking about how we communicate in the teaching process, not just what we have to say but HOW we say it. I said I’d have a crack at a PREZI presentation to illustrate my point – and here it …
See-Sick in Prezi: What place for visual rhetoric?
I have begun writing a paper on visual rhetoric. I sat on the 7:31 commuter train to St.Pancras and watched commuters, hunched over their laptops, working in PowerPoint. Their screens filled with words, varieties of fonts, and formatting tricks in abundance. These comprehensive essays in landscape, perhaps to be printed and distributed but more likely …
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I,Object – museum objects returning to focus
‘How can Museums and Heritage Institutions bring in external live content in order to enhance visitors’ experience of in-gallery objects?’
Embodied and Embedded Guidance (SOLE v1.2)
Version 1.2 of the SOLE ‘Toolkit’ has been uploaded today and a number of support videos (linked to from within the workbook) have been loaded onto http://www.YouTube.com/theSOLEmodel channel.
Lectures: Should they be Dialogue, Monologue or Soliloquy?
Serendipity perhaps. Yesterday I found myself looking at an article by James Davies (2006), ‘Dialogue, Monologue and Soliloquy in the Large Lecture Class’, International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 19 (2) 178-182) which wonderfully articulates the difference between large class teaching delivered for, and to, an audience and the ruminations of a speaker in …
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Creating Interactive Visitor Experiences
Back in August, I attended a ‘sandpit’, brainstorming workshop at School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. This was the second of three such sandpits forming the LIVE!Museum project, led by Dr. Ross Parry at Leicester’s Museum Studies. LIVE!Museum (more detail on the Museum Computer Group website) is an AHRC / BT-funded initiative, led by …
LAMS Learning Design Conference Presentation
New YouTube videos from the European LAMS Learning Design Conference 2010
GloMaker patterns and DiAL-e framework
Back in 2007, Kevin Burden at the University of Hull and I (then at Hull) were writing a chapter for a book by the late John O’Donoghue called ‘Technology-Supported Environments for Personalized Learning: Methods and Case Studies’ (2010). The chapter was based on earlier work, mostly by Kevin and Theo Kuechel, with the (then) QIA and a …
Joining the LSE and reviewing GloMaker
It’s been a rather hectic summer personally. Arriving back from New Zealand in mid July I have been organising all the personal issues that go with a 12,000 mile move and starting a new job. My new role at the London School of Economics and Political Science is with the Teaching and Learning Centre and is …
Video Overview of SOLE Toolkit v1.1
Release of the SOLE Toolkit
Will Lightwork make a Mark?
Why is it that whenever we want to reward academic staff, the incentive is to “buy yourself out of teaching”, or at the very least “offload some marking”? Of course, the answer is often that the alternatives are to remove yourself from service or administration (and the place grinds to a halt) or, God Forbid, …
DEANZ 2010
DEANZ 2010 – Quality Connections – Boundless Possibilities: Through Open, Flexible and Distance Learning. I’m biased because I played a minor role in the Organising Committee but I have to say this was one of the most enjoyable conferences I have been to in many a year. Te Papa was a great venue, and the …
Difficult Conversations in Ivory Towers: University and Civil Society
One might suggest Universities are simply having a tough time with reality. Where do we ‘fit’ now in Civil Society. Have we noticed that Civil Society has changed, is changing.
Reviewing participation at LAMS 2009 in Oxford with the DiAL-e
Two conference in June/July in the UK 2009
VoiceThread and evolving communication
How is VoiceThread changing our ideas about communication?
Talking about cognitive dissonance and structure
From information delivery to cognitive guidance
Transferring practice to alternative contexts
I’m looking at some interesting uses of PowerPoint/Presenter as stand alone resources which might be seen as multi-modal workbooks, animated, engaging objects which stand-alone for the student.