Launch event for report on Web 2.0 in higher education
A report that explores the impact that web 2.0 and the collaborative, social web are having on higher education in the UK will be launched on May 12, 2009.
The report, produced by the committee of inquiry into the changing learner experience, also contains a comparative international review covering the USA, Australia, South Africa and the Netherlands.
The report, titled ‘HE in a Web 2.0 World’, will be launched at an event at The Barbican, London and will be hosted by committee chair, Sir David Meville.
He said, 'The report evaluates the challenges for universities and their staff in keeping pace with, and capitalising on, these trends and argues there are very strong drivers for change.'
Ewan McIntosh, 4iP Digital Commissioner for Scotland and Northern Ireland will also be speaking at the event.
The committee was formed to investigate the impact of students’ widespread use social networking technologies such as Facebook, blogs, twitter, podcasting, YouTube and the like on Higher Education. Although an independent committee, it is backed by all of the principal bodies in UK post-compulsory education, namely: the Higher Education Academy (The Academy), Universities UK (UUK), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW), the Department for Employment and Learning for Northern Ireland (DELNI), Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK), Becta and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC).
When 6pm – 8pm, 12 May 2009Where The Garden Room, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
David Andrew on 16 Jan 10"Twitter Notes to PowerPoint from The Tablet PC Education Blog by noreply@blogger.com (The Tablet PC In Education Blog) NESI teachers find Dave Johnson's suggested ways to use Twitter improves classroom PowerPoint presentations. They use: 1. The add-on PowerPoint Feedback Slides to insert student feedback clouds with a presentation. They configure it, so they can moderate feeds before they post. 2. The real-time PowerPoint Twitter Ticker Bar at the bottom of the slide to display the last 10 tweets that match the PP slide. 3. The PowerPoint Twitter Voting function to student responses to teacher Qs on a PowerPoint slide. Twitter tallies the results and displays them as a bar or pie chart. 4. The PowerPoint Auto Tweet to push PowerPoint notes out to students via Twitter in real time, as teachers flip to each side. Teachers control what goes out by wrapping tweeted notes in twitter tags. Thanks, Dave, for pointing us to these Twitter functions. Kudos, Teachers for adapting them to classrooms. Johnson, D. Display Tweets in PowerPoint, Send PowerPoint Notes to Twitter. Heiny, R. Accelerated K12 Mobile Learning: Press Release (NESI). Posted by The Tablet PC In Education Blog. February 13, 2009, 3:29 PM. (Retrieved January 15, 2009, 3:19 PM.)"
