Getting Hands-on with Technology

Science Teaching Network, 7th February 2014

Things to do

  • Talk to people who use the technology
  • Talk to people who manage the technology
  • Try out Turnitin
  • Watch some videos
  • Share stories (the gory and the glory)

People and topics:

Electronic Feedback systems

Marking and feedback in Mole (Zaf Ali,CiCS Mole wizard - will be present)

Electronic feedback e.g.

Use in formal examinations – BMS have experience with this…

Marking and feedback in Turnitin (Gordon Cooper, BMS – will give access to the BMS exams account) The following link gives describes the feedback possible

Peer Assessment

Web PA (thanks to Simon Jones, Chemistry for this tip) – easy and simple to set-up online peer assessment tool. To try out a demo go to and use the login details on the right-hand-side of the page

Use of Twitter in teaching

Twitter events using the hash-tag (e.g.UoS L&T conference 2014#sltc14)

Twitter walls can be used in teaching labs or as audience response systems in lectures - posting of photos of results, hyperlinks, as well as commenting on progress, putting up polls etc.

Storify(creating the story of the event from the Twitter contributions) – simple version:sfy.co/tEYq, more polished:

Supporting lectures via video

iTunesU (Mark Winter, Chemistry – will be present to help with this) – follow the link on the managed desktop or - needs an iTunes account

Camcorder recording (Talk to Ed Warminski, Chemistry, or Jenny Burnham, Chemistry, can give you access to CHM2104 where there are some videos to watch, recorded for the Department of Chemistry support for Chinese 3+1 degree course) – to view yourself, in MOLE: select Build Content, then the uPlayermashup. Search for Burnham, and embed into a MOLE course to view. There are problems playing this content on Chrome & Firefox, though and you need to click on the security shield in the browser bar to disable the browser concerns about insecure content. Alternatively, if you have a uPlayer login (University Login’s don’t appear to work), you can login via MUSE and search for Burnham in the uPlayer search box

Helpful Faculty Person : Ron Adams, Faculty Media Technician

YouTube (example of Eugenia Cheng, SoMAS) - (me-proof so should work fine)

Screen capture, pen casting & Note editing

Jeremy Craven (MBB) – will be demonstrating his awesome Samsung tablet PC

Mark Morley (CiCS) – enthusiast extraordinaire will also be present

FarzanaLatif (CiCS) – will be showing off her iPad apps for teaching – Explain Everything (explaineverything.com) & Showme( apps

MSOnenote – note editing software available through Microsoft Office – allows importing of images, editing onscreen with mouse/tablet/text tool, and saving as PDF for example: