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This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

ocTEL blog posts (mainly for Dev, Sarah, John and Doug, but may be of passing interest)

Hi,We are keen to support ocTEL participants who are blogging about their activities and involvement in the course. If you post to the jiscmail list, your chances of getting some kind of response are reasonably high. If you post on your own blog – and …

Who are you? What do you want?

Hi

My introduction is on my blog

http://elearningstuff.net/2013/04/05/who-are-you-what-do-you-want-octel/

Regards


James Clay | ILT & Learning Resources Manager
Gloucestershire College
Gloucester Campus, Llanthony Road, Gloucester, GL2 5JQ

Introduction and directions to my base camp.

Hello,I’m Senior Learning Technologist at Royal Holloway, University of London. My role is in the promotion, development and support of e-learning services and initiatives, including Moodle, Turnitin, Panopto (Lecture Capture), and Personal Response Sy…

Re: introduction

Jo Ann your HE and FE comparisons are correct

Sent from my iPad

On 5 Apr 2013, at 05:03, Jo-ann Larkins wrote:

> Hi Jack,
>
> I think you are right about acronyms. It can be extremely alienating. I’m ploughing my way through the email deluge today, I have been Googling Define:XXX (Vague Acronym) lots.
> The two that get me most today are HE (Higher education? I think what we would called Tertiary in Australia) and FE (Further Education? I think this is equivalent to our TAFE sector) because I can’t find clear definitions for these. To […]

Introduction and big question

Hi,My name is Gemma Holtam. I work as a Tutorial Learning Mentor (TLM) and Advanced Practitioner in Information Learning Technology (ILT) at Barnsley College.As a TLM I teach a careers module where I use a number of ILT tools including voting systems, …

Re: Introduction and Big Question

Further to my introduction. I have many questions in my mind, but I guess my ‘big question’ is how, both as an educator and participant/learner, might I benefit from engaging in MOOCs? And in the process of answering that question I hope to identify so…

Re: 'Death by email' and my intro

Yes I would agree with you Katrina on that – I personally like the emailscoming in and enjoy reading them – and it prompts me to go back to the mainsite and review material there also.We use Googlemail at Work, and so I have set up a filter so that any…

Introduction and big question

Hi,My name is Gemma Holtam. I work as a Tutorial Learning Mentor (TLM) and Advanced Practitioner in Information Learning Technology (ILT) at Barnsley College.As a TLM I teach a careers module where I use a number of ILT tools including voting systems, …

Re: 'Death by email' and my intro

HiYes in response to your email below yes I believe it is because we are all so familiar with email and it is part of our normal everyday “systems use” I am for example currently looking at my emails for all manner of things to do with my role and to h…

Re: Gilly Salmo article and reply to Stephen and Bill

Hi David,Thanks for the video.I used a mechanical teaching machine in my first undergraduate Englishcourse at a Texas community college in 1972. It was a little moresophisticated than the one in the video, but not much.Using the machine meant that I di…

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