iPads for Teamworking: Inspiring Teachers conference presentation
1. iPad Teamworking project
Project Leaders:
Antony Coombs and Juliet Hinrichsen (EDU)
Team Leaders:
Tricia Duffield & Robert Sookhan (University Counsellors)
Andy Freeman (PE Teachers)
Dave Kerr (Paramedics)
Fakhar Khalid (Geography and Environmental Sciences)
Jessica Morgan (Psychology Researchers)
2. Background
Research Questions Organisation
Personal device – collective Competitive call
activity?
What participants get
Learning device – extended
classrooms? Timeframe
Mobile devices - mobile Communication
teams?
4. Team Members
iPad Teamworking Project: Dr Damian Poulter; Dr Sofia Stathi;
Dr Ian Tharp
the PSYCHOLOGY research team Team Leader Dr Jess Morgan
5. Context: Psychology Early Career Researchers
Team Profile
Current use of technology
Project Aims
Data analysis software
Explore uses for iPad technology
Journal databases at every stage of the research
Referencing software life-cycle
Email & Social Networking How iPads can enhance:
Three members have iPhones Idea generation
One member on twitter Collaboration
Data sharing
Current team-working patterns Data analysis
Overlapping research interests Dissemination
Different schedules Seed further research funding &
Limited time during teaching term collaborative bids
6. How we are using the iPads
Idea generation
Planning & teamwork
Reading & annotating pdfs
Sharing via dropbox
Collaboration:
Communicating & understanding others’ ideas
Research meetings
browsing, twitter, emails, articles
Dissemination:
Access research papers & notes
Remote environments
iPad gloves
7. What we’ve found so far...
Our top ten psychology research apps:
Reading/annotating
Sharing
Newsfeed
@PsychScience
@DorothyBishop
@noahwilliamgrey
@SciAmMind
@ResearchCentreCSF
Word processing
Organising notes
Work ↔ Life (advantages/disadvantages)
Yet to find statistical software for the social sciences
8. iPad Teamworking Project:
Development of the use of
ICT in PE and Sport
Team Leader Andy Freeman
Team Members Jackie Farr, Andrew Flynn,
Roz Hornsby, Alex Gibson
9. Context
Team Profile Project Aims
The team were generally proficient Students and lecturers will be
using PC style operating software able to use iPad tablets in
and applications observing, analysing and
Some members of the team had
assessing performance in
experience of use of Apps on practical situations – in
iPhones. particular in off-site situations
Only one member of the team had PGCE observation: All
experience using Apple/Mac captured data and
software and applications observation reports will be
readily communicated via e-
Projects spans both secondary and resources attached to the
primary PE – teamworking quite
developed within different iPads. Potential use of video
programmes but not cross phase. and still photos in e-portfolios.
10. How we are using the iPads
Secondary: PGCE observation reports completed in real time
and sent to four different recipients at once.
Photographs taken in the lesson show disbelieving students
that they actually did what mentors said they did!
Secondary: Athletics, Gymnastics and
Swimming used to provide instant
formative feedback and analysis of
performance to compare to elite
performance e.g. via the internet
Primary: Observation of students in Dance, Athletics and
Games – use for student visualisation of tasks through
e-demonstration.
11. What we’ve found so far...
Secondary: +ve: SIM cards have been key to off site use
+ve: Students keen to use the ‘new’ technology
+ve: Some good apps and functions – others being ‘discovered’
+ve: Portability -ve: small enough to leave behind
-ve: Apps do not have the same functions as applications on a Mac. If
used to full application, app version tends to be a bit ‘clunky’, slow and
lacking in features and does not do all that its big brother/sister can.
Primary: +ve: Really useful – help students visualise tasks set. Then
able to refer back to the model, if necessary to reinforce learning and
free lecturer to work in other areas.
+ve: Useful for team-working whilst off site
+ve: Communication via iPad, e-meetings in future??
12. iPad Teamworking Project:
Welfare & Counselling
Team Leaders Robert Sookhan & Tricia Duffield
Team Members Christine Ojera, Carol Horton and Leigh Riley
13. Context
Team Profile Project Aims
Improved communication
amongst Team Members
Improve responses to
Mainly Luddites'! With some emergencies.
skilled users.
Use of iPad within the new
Part-time staff working across counselling model
three campuses.
Sustainability
Difficulties: communication;
meetings; accessibility
14. How we are using the iPads
Counselling Sessions
Communication
Sustainability
Resources
Personal use
15. What we’ve found so far...
Can’t do without them! Our managers also see the value
of staff having them.
New counselling model would not work as well without
them.
Student feedback has been very good.
Recently been reaccredited by Matrix Standard Award –
for good practice. Use of IT was a significant part of the
Award.
We can sometimes be too accessible!
16. iPad Teamworking Project:
The Paramedic Team
Team Leader Dave Kerr
Team Members Graham Fletcher; Paul Eyre
17. Context
Team Profile Project Aims
Paramedics with limited Develop a library of
formal IT education appropriate images to
enhance simulations
1 x full time senior lecturer
Enhance practical feedback
2 x 0.5 wte L/Ps through images / videos
L/Ps not present at same time Develop ‘cloud’ repository
for live updating of
Team meetings difficult information
Currently reliant on email for Improve team
communication communication
18. How we are using the iPads
Videoing skills practice
Medical images
Apps – e.g. 3D Brain, Pocket ECG,
iResus
emails
19. What we’ve found so far...
Students like the images / videos
apps can be used to enhance learning
Web searches answer questions quickly
Work/life divide blurs
‘Angry Bird’ scores improve with practice!
20. Geography & Environmental Science
Project Team
Fakhar Khalid Tim Acott Julie Urquhart
Mike McGibbon Richie Simon
Editor's Notes
Research Questions:In thinking about what we hoped to discover from the project, we tried to focus on the distinctive characteristics of these devicesPersonal device – collective activity?Possible contradiction – iPad seen as primarily targeted at a home market and entertainment purposes – how might these highly individualised personal devices work in supporting collaborative and team activity – where would difficulties or contradictions arise?how would a device centred around an individual work for shared activity --- how would a “fun” leisure device rub up against “serious” work situations (would the “fun”ness act to lower barriers to using the technology)Learning device – extended classrooms?Knowing that non-classroom teaching spaces (e.g. fieldwork, placement) posed problems for institutional education, staff in these situations often bore the brunt of these problems – interested in whether this technology might start to provide solutions or ease the difficulties, impact on approaches taken in these spaces, maybe narrowing the gap or providing more dynamic links between these spaces and classroom-based activity – also how might this technology function in spaces such as workshops, studios or labs that have often sat uneasily with more tradtional computer technology.These spaces might rely on portable devices – how does the iPad shape upMobile devices - mobile teams?Lastly, we were interested in whether these devices might provide a more comprehensive and flexiblesolution for teams that are geographically and chronologically dispersed – what impact might they have on identity, efficiency and effectiveness within such teams.Organisation:Competitive call- open to any teams with an impact on student experience, not simply traditional teaching teams- five out of twenty-five selectedWhat participants get3G connection for 12 monthsownership of device Timeframe- 18months, 12months of which with 3G connectionCommunicationlight touch approach – gauge level of support needed – avoid over-influence – ownership of uses of deviceblog – face-to-face,difficult logistically
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Brief points: 1 minute allocatedTeam profile:Our team is made up of four ECRs who have recently joined the department of psychology & counselling.Before the project began our team were reasonably IT literate. In our research we rely on technology mostly for data analysis and for reviewing the scientific literature. We all have research interests that overlap to a certain extent, and so were interested to see if the Pads would help us work together & support each other. As lecturers find research meetings difficult to organise during term time, due to time constraints and conflicting schedules. Project Aims:We all have links with outside partners and wanted to explore how this technology could support us in securing further collaborative research grants. This project intends to explore and evaluate the complete iPad-supported research life-cycle using iPads to plan, deliver and disseminate collaborative research.The project aims to investigate how howiPads can enhance collaboration, data sharing, data analysis and idea generation. Research development and collaboration will be explored not only within the internal team at Greenwich but also across wider research groupings nationally and internationally.One of the intended outcomes of the project will be to seed further research funding and collaborative bids.
