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

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 (1)Delicious (1)DiigoMendeley GroupScoopitEmail Lists (1)Newsletter Archive (1)Social networks (177)Google+Twitter (177) 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) ed_bremner posted an update 24 minutes ago

Joined the Art & Design & South West group, but wonder if there is any demand for a licensing, IPR and copyright group?

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Hi All in Art & Design, thought I would just say hello….Looks like there is only two of us so far in the ‘Art & Design’ group…..hope we get a few more.I am curious about your interests: Using TEL for teaching Art & Design….or effective use of Art & Design in TEL? I guess for me I am more interested in using TEL for teaching Media and…[Read more]

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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

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 (1)Delicious (1)DiigoMendeley GroupScoopitEmail Lists (1)Newsletter Archive (1)Social networks (169)Google+Twitter (169) 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) ed_bremner posted an update 24 minutes ago

Joined the Art & Design & South West group, but wonder if there is any demand for a licensing, IPR and copyright group?

ed_bremner posted an update in the group Art & Design 1 hour, 7 minutes ago

Hi All in Art & Design, thought I would just say hello….Looks like there is only two of us so far in the ‘Art & Design’ group…..hope we get a few more.I am curious about your interests: Using TEL for teaching Art & Design….or effective use of Art & Design in TEL? I guess for me I am more interested in using TEL for teaching Media and…[Read more]

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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

Email not displaying correctly? Too many emails? May 1, 2014 News (Visit on site) Recent Activity (numbers in brackets indicate new posts) Course InformationAboutCommentaryReaderBlog post (23)BookmarksDeliciousDiigoMendeley GroupScoopitEmail Lists (1)Newsletter Archive (1)Social networks (220)Google+Twitter (220) Week 0: Learning the ropes webinar recording April 30, 2014 Thank you to all who were able to make it to the week 0 webinar. This webinar was an opportunity to meet some of our tutors (some of whom are ocTEL graduates) and share ideas for getting the most out of a course like ocTEL. If you missed this session recordings are available. You can view the Blackboard Collaborate recording which lets you also replay the session chat or view the recording streamed to YouTube. After watching this recording you can claim your webinar week 0 badge here.Next week’s webinar will be on Wednesday, May 7, 2014 – 12:30pm BST (timezone conversion) where Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou and James Little will be talking about Strategies for Learning Technology. Here are more details about the session. Share this:TwitterGoogleLinkedInFacebookEmail Activity Stream (Visit on site) Alicia Vallero posted an update in the group Design for Open Learning 16 minutes ago

Hi! I’m a Spanish teacher at Bond University in the Gold Coast, Australia. I have been using different types of technology in my classes with different levels of success. At the beginning most of it was trial and error. I’m so happy now to have places like this where we can share ideas and resources!

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Hi Tony! I’m a Spanish teacher at Bond University in the Gold Coast, Australia.

Participant Blog Posts (Visit on site) #ocTEL: Week 0 – Expectations, Familiarisation & Practice April 30, 2014 | HKP HUMeL Today has been a lesson in organisation and time management. Not sure how successfully I’ve juggled my University workload with my personal (yet work-related) interests! So much time has been spent wading through bookmarks, browser extensions, shortcuts, cross-links, etc. Nevertheless, having streamlined and coordinated most (all?) of my online profiles, I Read more » Looking at conceptual problem(s) with TEL: Activity 0.1: Big and little questions from #ocTEL April 30, 2014 | kshjensen – always learning *Just a little general disclaimer that I am no expert on the postdigital, posthuman or for that matter Bruno Latour;his focus on networks and connections and critiques of categories and boundaries. But I can get onboard with the idea that … Continue reading → Read more » Mendeley group for ocTEL: http://mnd.ly/10yQ4xx April 30, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities James Kerr Wed, 30 Apr Read more » OcTEL 2014https://plus.google.com/109142498691056168110/posts/TVgma97yXge April 30, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities Howard Browes Wed, 30 Apr Read more » ALT OcTEL 2014I started this course last year, but unfortunately work got in the way of seriously progressing… April 30, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities Howard Browes Wed, 30 Apr Read more » Share your  location #octel April 30, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities James Kerr Wed, 30 Apr Read more » Big and small questions part 2 April 30, 2014 | Learning (and a bit of Technology) The first #ocTEL webinar was… I’ve listened and reflected and have come up with a participation plan of sorts. Thanks to Jim Kerr @Kerr63  for the idea. Hopefully having this post as a reminder of what I’ve planned to do will help focus me in the weeks to come. Goal 1: Experience an open online Read more » Bless me reader for I have sinned – #ocTEL week 0 April 30, 2014 | Stievie's adventures in e-Learning Bless me reader, for I have sinned. It has been two and a half years since my last blog post ;-)It seems like I never take the time to reflect and work on my own professional development. There's always so much stuff that needs to be done, with a highe… Read more » Hi everyone it was good to meet some of you in today’s webinar. Someone has beat me to starting an ocTEL… April 30, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities Scott Miller Wed, 30 Apr Read more » Liking the festival idea April 30, 2014 | ocTEL Quite excited after the ocTEL intro session. Seems I don't have as many issues as I thought I did; this is always reassuring! Read more » #ocTEL Using Padlet in my blog to collaborate April 30, 2014 | iLearning UK Well, I have successfully embedded a “Padlet” in to my WordPress site on a collaboration page. https://wordpress… You can access my padlet here and please feel free to leave #ocTEL comments on it. Read more » If you’re watching the the #ocTEL webinar, get your digital badge: http://ow.ly/wkdRC (what are badges… April 30, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities ALT Wed, 30 Apr 2014 Read more » #ocTEL webinar happening now. Watch live via http://ow.ly/wkcvZ (Blackboard Collaborate) or http://ow.ly… April 30, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities ALT Wed, 30 Apr 2014 Read more » Answering the Big and Little questions #ocTEL 2014 April 30, 2014 | learningtecgirl23 “Technology is not technology if it was invented before you were born” Sir Ken Robinson http://www.flickr.com/photos/retroc... This is my first blog post as part of OCTEL and having spent two days in Dublin and getting home last night at 11.00 PM, my brain is finding it difficult to reflect at Read more » If you’re having problems joining the #ocTEL webinar today (at 13.00), then watch it streamed on YouTube… April 30, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities ALT Wed, 30 Apr 2014 Read more » Join us for the free Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning (#ocTEL) webinar today at 13.00 http… April 30, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities ALT Wed, 30 Apr 2014 Read more » Big and small questions April 30, 2014 | Learning (and a bit of Technology) I’ve enrolled on the latest instance of #ocTEL. Starting this week I’ll be immersed (occasionally!) in Technology Enhanced Learning, hopefully finding out more about what this means to a larger group of people than those I share a corridor with. My first task is to think about what I want to gain from Read more » #ocTEL course information: ‘Set your goals, so that they may guide your path’ by David Jennings http… April 30, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities ALT Wed, 30 Apr 2014 Read more » If you are planning to follow the OcTEL MOOC from ALT over the next 8 weeks, there is an introductory… April 30, 2014 | Google+ ocTEL Activities Ros Walker Wed, 30 Apr Read more » OCTEL Begins April 30, 2014 | Education, Learning and Technology | Education, Learning and Technology OCTEL is starting this week and like last year I’m looking forward to getting involved as both a participant and helping contribute to the running of the course – this time in week one. Find out more about OCTEL and sign up.   Further posts to come… Read more » How I feel about different channels of e-communication April 30, 2014 | Reflecting Allowed I have to say that my preferences in terms of communication media change very fast. When I first started MOOCing (latecomer in 2013) I was not a tweeter or blogger, and discussion forums worked for me just fine. I had … Continue reading → Read more » Big and little questions for #ocTEL April 30, 2014 | Maieusis So far I’ve participated in three MOOCs, with varying degrees of success. This is my fourth. All of them have been on some aspect of learning in the digital age. How do people learn in the digital age? How do they want to learn? How can we help them?It seems Read more » #ocTEL 2014: Week 1: Post 2: Activity 0.1: Big and little questions April 30, 2014 | TIE reflect on your work experience and ambitions for developing your teaching Can you identify the most important question about TEL that matters to you? Two questions on the Activity 0.1 to ponder. Answering them will also help with my feeling of vagueness, picked up by David Jennings in the ocTEL Read more » This mail is brought to you by MailPress.MAIL IS SHARING POETRY

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