Email not displaying correctly? Too many emails? May 2, 2014 News (Visit on site) Recent Activity (numbers in brackets indicate new posts) Course InformationAboutCommentaryReaderBlog post (23)Bookmarks (2)Delicious (2)DiigoMendeley GroupScoopitEmail Lists (1)Newsletter Archive (1)Social networks (191)Google+ (10)Twitter (181) ocTEL Website: The ups and downs May 1, 2014 The downsYesterday (30th April) at 12:15pmBST some of you would have noticed that the ocTEL website (octel.alt.ac.uk) was offline or very slow. This event coincided with our first webinar (recordings here if you missed it). Whilst the webinar was hosted using external services there was a spike in visits to the site. Usually this level of extra traffic wouldn’t be an issue but due to the way we had configured one of the plugins used in the ocTEL site it overloaded the server bringing it down. Fortunately thanks to the expertise of Positive Internet,  who host all of ALT’s websites, the server was quickly brought back online. We’ve also worked with Positive Internet to make the site more resilient to spikes in traffic and if you notice any issues this fix creates please let us know at octel-tech@alt.ac.ukThe upsThe ocTEL website going down yesterday was far from ideal but is a useful illustration of why we are encouraging you to use and explore your personal web spaces. ocTEL, as a course of structured activities and support, finishes on the 20th June, but hopefully as a result of ocTEL you would have been able to make new connections, established yourself in new spaces, to continue exploring technology enhanced learning. The ocTEL site will still be here after June (just as ocTEL 2013 is) but the collection of blog posts and other site features will be gradually switched to read only.The exploration and use of personal spaces was something we touched upon in the this week’s webinar. Since then #ocTEL ers have mobilised setting up new spaces in LinkedIn, Scoopit, and others we are collecting in this page. Whether or not the ocTEL site going down spurred the exploration into these new spaces is impossible to say and we are certainly not planning any further blackouts. So if you’ve visited one of these spaces, if you have found a participants blog that you find useful, if you’ve commented on a blog or forum post, even if you do nothing else as part of ocTEL you’ve already ‘passed’, you’ve made a connection!Share this:TwitterGoogleLinkedInFacebookEmail Activity Stream (Visit on site) danielharding earned a week 0 badge: Check-in Badge 1 minute ago

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@vbaxter @barbarapg Our programme uses Moodle heavily, but mainly to deliver content. We have found some of the functions, as you say, heavy and time consuming to create: we don’t have an ed-tech support group to do this for us, so it us up to the teachers. I’m noticing that Goole Docs and Google Drive seem to be more useful for students and…[Read more]

Participant Blog Posts (Visit on site) Defining TEL May 1, 2014 | A TEL tale The ocTEL started yesterday, for me at least, with the introductory webinar and its community has been communicating all over the web. Since this is week0, i figured i would define what TEL entails, and write another article at the end of this MOOC and analyse whether a change occured Read more » Activity 0.3 May 1, 2014 | gsoctel I have merged my thoughts into this one response although it probably covers a few areas of the activity. I think there are advantages and disadvantages to running a MOOC. There is a definite mass-audience appeal which lends itself to large numbers of participants located anywhere around the globe. Some Read more » Some digital ramblings May 1, 2014 | gsoctel OCTEL hope its not as difficult as walking up a mountain!  Read more » #ocTEL 2014 – Journey into the unknown “0.1 Big and little questions” May 1, 2014 | the edge performance improvement consultancy – View from The Edge Well, unknown in the sense of my first participation in an open online learning course and a course that mainly attracts those teaching in HE. My reasons? I felt this course would: a) facilitate discuss with new people and b) provide me with new relevant knowledge as one of my areas Read more » Week 0 #OCTEL May 1, 2014 | #ocTEL musings My career in e-learning started out at Gloucestershire college. i’d left University with no real interest in a career in online learning, heck i didn’t really know what it was. We had at the time a very basic webct but … Continue reading → Read more » #ocTEL If you / your team / someone you know is good with using technology in teaching, enter the 2014… May 1, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities ALT Thu, 01 May 2014 Read more » #ocTEL 2014: Week 1: Post 3: I Was Grabbed May 1, 2014 | TIE This is my first experience of a MOOC. The following are some ‘sketch’ notes on things (four – it’s my favourite number) that have grabbed my attention during the first three days: 1. I like the ‘badges: is that the child within me enjoying the competition or am I part Read more » Big Question/Little Question #ocTEL May 1, 2014 | Intelligent Ideation Can you identify the most important question about TEL that matters to you? The thing that matters most to me is engaging all learners and staff with the use of learning technologies. I have experience in actively utilising and being forced to utilise a variety of platforms and resources. In Read more » Getting started with #ocTEL 2014 May 1, 2014 | Education, Learning and Technology I’ve just started the Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning (ocTEL) being run online by ALT over the next six weeks or so. Follow my progress and join the conversation! Read more » ocTEL Participation – Getting started May 1, 2014 | TEL @ UEL » ocTEL Reflections I have signed up as a student and occasional tutor on OcTEL (Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning) run by ALT (Association of Learning Technology). I am going to try to avoid the word ‘fail’ in relation to my level of participation as the pass/fail paradigm does not apply to Read more » #ocTEL participant blogs & discussion spaces http://ow.ly/wmG0I #altc May 1, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities ALT Thu, 01 May 2014 Read more » #ocTEL Website: The ups and downs http://ow.ly/wmFOH #altc May 1, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities ALT Thu, 01 May 2014 Read more » #ocTEL Activity 0.1: In which I identify the most important question about TEL that matters to me… May 1, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities Flea Palmer Thu, 01 May Read more » plenty to do! good job it is a long weekend 🙂 #ocTEL May 1, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities Teresa Mackinnon Thu, 01 May Read more » Strategies for Learning Technology – #ocTEL webinar: Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 12:30 http://ow.ly/wmv0v… May 1, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities ALT Thu, 01 May 2014 Read more » First activity….   technology (enabled) May 1, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities Joseph Gliddon Thu, 01 May Read more » Week 0: Learning the ropes #ocTEL webinar recording http://ow.ly/wmtcD #altc May 1, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities ALT Thu, 01 May 2014 Read more » watching the #ocTEL  twitter discussion and the networks created http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key… May 1, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities Teresa Mackinnon Thu, 01 May Read more » Be an #ocTEL Explorer May 1, 2014 | gdougblog So, the next stage is to experiment with and reflect on different ways of communicating with fellow ocTEL participants. These include Twitter, a blog if you have one, the ocTEL JISCMail list, the ocTEL forums, the ocTEL groups, the chat window in the webinar. I have actually been doing this since the start Read more » #ocTEL Forum Discussions: Week 1 May 1, 2014 | gdougblog As part of my attempt to “cluster” the material gathered during the ocTEL MOOC and also document my contribution to different discussions and groups, I have decided to group them here on a week by week basis. This organization could well change as the course evolves over the coming weeks. Read more » #ocTEL Online Resources May 1, 2014 | gdougblog Here I am just going to cluster some of the resources I’ve been reading about on the ocTEL MOOC. The first one that looks really interesting is Socrative: http://www.socrative.com/ which is free and allows you set up quizzes, Q&A and a lot more with instant responses using smartphones, tablets or Read more » #ocTEL  Week 0 – doing a low tech participation plan for Technology Enhanced Learning – we’ll see how… May 1, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities Wendy Taleo Thu, 01 May Read more » Heading into Week 0 of #ocTEL Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning. Getting used to their Reader… May 1, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities Wendy Taleo Thu, 01 May Read more » This mail is brought to you by MailPress.MAIL IS SHARING POETRY

@BarbaraPG nice to see another #ocTEL mooc starter and hopeful finisher! I’m 0/2 at present :-(— Guy Saward (@guy75) May 02, 2014

RT @BarbaraPG: Attempt number 2 to start and FINISH #ocTEL. My BIG focus questions posted on a new blog http://t.co/g8iyNTPvOt are they to…— damon_tokyo (@damon_tokyo) May 02, 2014

Attempt number 2 to start and FINISH #ocTEL. My BIG focus questions posted on a new blog http://t.co/g8iyNTPvOt are they too big?— Barbara Gardner (@BarbaraPG) April 30, 2014

RT @BarbaraPG: Great link shared by @philtubman in 1st #ocTEL webinar https://t.co/JPbs8JDDd4 … Blooms Taxonomy Apps— Claire Raistrick (@ClaireRaistrick) April 30, 2014

RT @BarbaraPG: Great link shared by @philtubman in 1st #ocTEL webinar https://t.co/JPbs8JDDd4 … Blooms Taxonomy Apps— Chris Jobling (@cpjobling) April 30, 2014

RT @BarbaraPG: Great link shared by @philtubman in 1st #ocTEL webinar https://t.co/JPbs8JDDd4 … Blooms Taxonomy Apps— flea palmer (@fleapalmer) April 30, 2014

Great link shared by @philtubman in 1st #ocTEL webinar https://t.co/JPbs8JDDd4 … Blooms Taxonomy Apps— Barbara Gardner (@BarbaraPG) April 30, 2014