Teachers
All these resources and examples represent the use of simple tools and techniques to create effective resources and succesful teaching and learning activities. Each project contains an introduction to the teachers involved and the skills and application developed. Although contextualised for teachers clearly these resources and demonstrations of effective practice and techniques provide examples to learn and apply whatever your role.
Getting
started in podcasting - Alan Carr
Alan has produced a `get you
started` guide to podcasting for practitioners who have little or no experience
of this technique. He has explained what podcasting is and how it can benefit
learners. He has also identified the most popular sites for creating podcasts,
and featured some examples on a specially created site. 
Hosting media in PowerPoint - Simon Anten
Simon has produced a guide
to show how Microsoft PowerPoint can host all kinds of media in an attractive
and stimulating way. The guide also gives a case study example that centres
on a recent tv advertising campaign for the NSPCC. For the more advanced
practitioners he has also provided a Macromedia Flash ™ version.
The good guide to Blogging - Rob Wildig
Rob
has taken Blogging as his main theme for ITQ applications and has shown practitioners
how to set up and use a BLOG site. He has also discussed how BLOGs can be
used within programmes to engage learners and build online collaboration
and sharing activities. He has identified some readily available sites that
enable teachers to set up free Blogs, and he has also offered a couple of
examples of his own Many teachers are still largely unaware of the power
and versatility of this Microsoft tool that has become standard issue since
XP.
Getting the most from Moviemaker - Scott Reynard
Scott has created a step
by step guide to using Moviemaker and has provided some sample video clips
of how it can be used in practice.
The best freeware ever - Andrew Hill
Andrew has described
a broad range of the most current and exciting freeware that is available
on the Internet. In particular he has focused on Picasa2 (as an image editing
tool), and pageflakes for creating stunning web pages. All of the freeware
can be used by teachers with little technical background.
Freeware for creating online tests - Steve Jarvis
Steve has featured
three different types of online test that has been created with `Hot potatoes`
- a readily available online test creation tool that can be used by teachers
with little technical ability. He has also included examples of tests he
has used with his construction groups to great effect.
Interactive Wordboards - Tony Aspinall
Tony Aspinall is a
pioneer in the use of interactive features of Microsoft Word to create a
more stimulating learning environment for teaching and learning. Tony describes
how he set up Word documents to be more interactive, including two `how to`
guides for the most critical parts of the process. He has also shared three
examples of his work that has been successfully used in his business studies
programme.
Using digital video to challenge philosophy students - Mike Atherton
Mike
is a pioneer in the use of USB enabled digital video techniques to create
`discussion nuggets` for philosophy students. He has explained how visual
and audio techniques can stimulate learners in new ways as compared to pure
text. His approach can be applied with equal affect to other subjects which
rely on discourse to improve understanding.
A
world class VLE - getting started with Moodle - Ian Southwell
Ian has focused on
a free, world-popular Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) called Moodle – an
open source product with powerful resource and communication tools that is
comparable with many commercial VLE systems. He has explained how a teacher
can host their own site at very low cost and design online courses for their
colleagues and for students.
Using Microsoft sound recorder to support and challenge students - Karen
Conroy
Karen
has used the standard Microsoft sound recorder to improve her coaching of
psychology students with a view to boosting achievement. She has described
how to create voice files and embed them in tasksheets to improve constructively
critical feedback and in student assignments to increase the quality of feedback
together with some examples.
