E-learning and ILT
for RACC Tutors
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FELTAG Principles
• Horizon Scanning- Everyone must fully
understand future technological development
and its potential for teaching, learning and
assessment in vocational and adult education.
• Learners must be empowered to fully exploit
their own understanding of, and familiarity
with digital technology for their own learning.
• 10% online delivery. Start now

Excellent Practice
• Facilitate collaboration
• Fully Support student learning and achievement
outside the classroom using on-line learning
communities and social media
• Provide opportunities for peer to peer and 1-2-1
tutor support outside the classroom
• Use mobile devices to check student learning and
progress in the class and capture lesson content

Excellent Practice
• Help learners develop and review their personal
learning plans (eTracker)
• Use extra online resources to stretch and challenge
all students. Early finishers can research and share
content for others
• All assignments and activities to be online
• Record and report on learners’ progress using ILT
• Actively encourage the development of ILT skills in all
learners
• Identify and disseminate good practice in your team

30 ICT Tips in 30 minutes
Presentation and Lesson Capture
Interaction
Collaboration
Social Media

30 ICT Tips in 30 minutes
Presentation and Lesson Capture

Stretch and Challenge your
Powerpoint
• Annotate and record in-class contribution to
your presentations using the ink tool
• Narrate and record your voice over
Powerpoint
• Use powerpoint actions to make interactive
slides and simple games (e.g maths)

Recording Audio
Use the sound recorder built into your mobile phone or one of
the college Ipads or Laptops to record your lesson
Examples
• Voice to accompany a presentation
• Reflective Journals for learners
• Interviews and Role Plays
• Classroom Q/As which are being assessed(learners in mini
groups with mobiles)
• Reflections on creative work
• Don’t forget to share the file when it is finished
Find examples of podcasts online for more ideas

Capture your screen with Jing
• Take short videos of your computer screen to
share with your learners
• Ideal for software demonstrations
http://www.jingproject.com
• For more advanced screen capture – refer to
camtasia
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html

Prezi
• Jazz up your presentations - ideal for subjects
where you want more dynamism or creative
flow
• http://prezi.com/5ye8po_hmikp/10-most-common-
rookie-presentation-mistakes/
• Prezi can import powerpoint slides
• Find an example to suit your curriculum

Video
Use a learners mobile phone or an iPad to make
news reports for humanities, english and
language classes
Share these files through social media into a
facebook group or onto a shared dropbox area
that your class has access to

E-learning design
• Using advanced powerpoint features provides you with
the principles of e-learning
• There are some tools publicly available to enable the
creation of more complex e-learning materials without
knowing programming.
• Examples of these are:
• Glo - http://www.glomaker.org/samples.html
• Articulate Studio/Story Line -
https://www.articulate.com/store/store.php
• Adobe Captivate -
http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate.html

30 ICT Tips in 30 minutes
Interaction

Countdown…
• Creating a sense of urgency and immediacy
within a lesson
• Setup an online stopwatch or interactive
countdown timer go to
• http://www.online-stopwatch.com/
• Egg Timer
• http://www.online-stopwatch.com/eggtimer-countdown/
full-screen/

Pollanywhere
• Use Polleverywhere to setup a voting system that makes use of
learners mobile devices to enable you to get instant feedback.
• Here are a few ways to use PollEverywhere in your classroom:
– Check for understanding after a difficult lesson
– Do Now! activity when students walk into a class
– Make classroom decisions (How much more time do you need on the
paper?)
– Assign as a homework assignment (ex: Answer the poll by midnight)
– Keep track of student progress during in-class assessment (ex: Text
“Done” to the poll when you are finished)
• http://www.polleverywhere.com/
• http://teachbytes.com/2012/03/21/polleverywhere-and-5-
classroom-uses-2/
• https://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/oyqFwp1
QHXap2M8

Socrativ
• For highly interactive feedback during classes
using mobile devices setup an account on
http://www.socrative.com/
– Multiple Choice
– True/False
– Q/A
Join my room http://b.socrativ.com - aa3ef945

Survey Monkey
• Design your own online surveys for your
classes on https://www.surveymonkey.com/
• Can be used for pre-course questionnaires,
automating administration, quick end of class
or mid – term surveys.
• Example
• https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2MQB5P5

Use Ipad Accessibility features
• Voiceover – touch the screen to hear what is on it
• Assistive Touch – use a single finger to create
gestures
• Guided Access – improve focus on a single app
• Facetime – Use Facetime for signing and non
verbal communication
• https://www.apple.com/uk/accessibility/
• Think of a creative use of these technologies in
your lesson

30 ICT Tips in 30 minutes
Collaboration

Google Apps
• Make a Google account and edit live Google
documents with your colleagues:
http://docs.google.com
• Use Google Drive or Dropbox as a shared file area
to store files for your class
• Examples : Joint reports, team working briefs,
creative files, sound-bytes, photographs
• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_6fh7
wXkugHQbbA2ILrjsFqysvclJCbul2I3Oc912D8/pres
ent#slide=id.i0

Setup a website or blog for your class
• Encourage learners to develop an online presence
• Create an online CV
• Make an online portfolio
• Used for reflective journaling
• 100s of themes
• www.wordpress.com
• www.blogger.com
• www.livejournal.com

Encourage Discussion and Sharing
• Setup an online discussion forum in class use
http://www.proboards.com/
• Learners can contribute, collaborate and share
resources online on any topic
• e.g share recipes, share language tips and
links, explore history, research science
• http://polandsite.proboards.com/
• Find an example for your own curriculum area

ILT for Rehearsal and Performance
• Make a digital multimedia backdrop for a performance
• Learners can research idea images, sound and
resources and make a timed powerpoint backdrop or
small video file . Play this in the background behind a
practical performance.
• Helps with Cueing, Videoing the work acts as evidence
Tools used
• Windows movie maker
• iMovie
• Adobe Premiere

Moodle – best practice
• Departmental reviews of Moodle have identified the following best
practice
– Resources well organised by Date and by Subject, descriptions of
sections and units, and by module leader
– On-going use of online assessment for formative and summative work
– Resources refreshed regularly
– Centralised resources reduce duplication and improve quality (if a
course is repeat taught)
– Encouragement of lesson capture (filming or screen recording)
– Active use of Forums – regular posting and learner interaction
– Tutors bring tablets into the class or use/share learner mobiles to
encourage interaction with the VLE
– Management - Online shared areas for staff resources
(adapt this slide to reference your area for shared resources)

E-tracker
• An online ILP – ‘myprogress’
• Puts the learner in the centre of progress
• Creates a dashboard of data about your
learner
• Allows ongoing assessment and learner
tracking
• Training will be provided on this for all staff

30 ICT Tips in 30 minutes
Social Media

Pinterest
• An Online picture board
• Encourage learners to create picture boards
on a topic e.g storyboarding for interior design
or typography for graphic design
http://www.pinterest.com/erinklein/pinterest
-for-teachers/
• http://www.teachthought.com/social-media/
37-ways-teachers-can-use-pinterest-in-the-
classroom/

Twitter
• Creating a hashtag on specific topics to create
a conversation with your learners or to
encourage research
• Instant Feedback
• Follow industry professionals to stretch
learning and aspiration
• Twitter for teachers:
http://www.schrockguide.net/twitter-for-teachers.
html

Facebook
• Create a closed group on Facebook for your class
and other staff teaching your course
– Share resources, links and updates
– Encourage learners to support each other outside of
the lesson
– Do not friend learners
• 100 ways to use Facebook in your classroom
• http://www.teachthought.com/technology/100-
ways-to-use-facebook-in-education-by-category/

Next Steps
• Take these slides and adapt them to suit your
audience and context (both staff and learners!)
• More resources can be found on moodle in the
virtual staff room in the Teaching and Learning /
ILT and VLE area
• Help and support from the LRC and the eLearning
Champions
• Follow me on twitter on @manojnanda for more
links and tips

Other Resources for teachers
Effective ICT : 20 tips for 20 tutors and more..
http://www.effectiveict.co.uk/
Detailed training for Office 2013
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/office
Keeping up to date
http://www.edudemic.com/
Mobile Apps organised by learning activity:
http://edtechteacher.org/apps
For more information and support with any of the software associated
to this presentation contact lrc@racc.ac.uk