Newport University's Technology
Enhanced Learning and Learning Support (TELLS) team is aiming to hold
it's first annual E-learning conference in 2011.
The proposed title is "Techie Trekking: Using Technology to support and enhance teaching and learning"
and we are looking for speakers from Primary/Junior schools, Secondary
schools and Further Education to attend and give talks on how they use
technology to enhance teaching and learning both inside and outside of
the classroom.
Because
of this we want to hold the conference on a date that is convenient for
teachers to attend, and thus we would be most grateful if you could
fill in the short form found at the link and indicate which of the following dates
would be suit you and your colleagues should you wish to attend.
Please visit this link to regsiter your date of choice - http://sites.google.com/site/uwnshsstells/tells-conference-2011
Please note that the following address is now available to link to the SHSS TELLS website.
http://www.newport.ac.uk/tells
We are very pleased to be able to announce that this year, for the first time ever, Newport University's Nexus Conference will be streaming live into Second Life as well as onto this web page.
This means on Monday 14th June from 8:40 (Uk time) onwards you'll be able to watch all of the main lectures as they happen and particulate live via Second Life or by Twitter.
If you wish to participate via Twitter you'll need to include the hashtag #nexus2010 into your tweets.
If you wish to particulate via Second Life, just teleport to our island and then head over to the main lecture theatre.
Please click here for more information and to link to the Second Life Island.
Senior Lecturer Andy Thomas and Academic Leader Paul Andrews have had an article entitled 'Using Moodle to meet the Challenges of Assessment and Feedback for 1st Year Undergraduate Students' published in Link 25, the HEA publication. Further details can be found in the link below.
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/hlst/resources/linknewsletter
Congratulations to both Andy and Paul.
Show and TELLS Sessions
These are regular sessions showcasing some of the latest technologies and techniques to staff so that they can try them out for themselves and then incorporate them into their own lectures and lessons if they wish.
The University of Wales Newport is hosting a one day workshop delivered by Professor Paul Gilbert on-
Working with Shame and Developing Inner Compassion on
Friday 2nd July (Caerleon campus).
Please see attached flier for details and how to reserve a place.
It is with great pleasure that we would like to announce the 7th All Wales Institute of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences conference titled Newport: The 19th Hole Golf & Sport Exercise Science to be held at the University of Wales, Newport on Thursday the 8th July 2010.
As part of the conference, a website has been launched which will give delegates a greater understanding of the event and includes links to all event sponsors. Please feel free to visit the website and browse the information available.
Newport Centre for Counselling Research 2010 Conference Call for Papers now open. Please click on the link below for conference title and submission details.
With over 20 years worth of combined industry & learning technologies experience the TELLS team is able to provide bespoke solutions for students, educators and external partners.
The "How we can help" page is now live: http://sites.google.com/site/uwnshsstells/how-we-can-help-you-v2 - please click this link for more information.
The School of Health and Social Sciences TELLS team are pleased to be working in partnership with the Institute of Digital Learning (IDL) on supporting staff to develop their modules via MOODLE as part of the Work Based Learning Project for Newport Business School as part of a cross university initiative. This project commenced today and will conclude at the end of July 2010. We look forward to working with our colleagues across the university.
Dr Jo Brayford, Dr John Deering and Dr Francis Cowe have had their edited book published.
It is What Else Works? Creative Work with Offenders, is published by Willan Publishing (2010).
The book arose out of the 2008 Newport Centre for Criminal and Community Justice conference.
This year’s conference is “Sex offenders – punish, help, change or control?”, on April 29th, an immensely relevant and important event, and the team intend an edited volume arising from that conference.
Details of the book at http://www.willanpublishing.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781843927662
Many congratulations to John, Jo and Francis.
A limited number of places are available for current HSS students on the Newport Centre for Criminal and Community Justice Conference to be held on 29th April 2010 entitled 'Sex Offenders - Punish, Help, Change or Control'. This special limited offer will allow students to attend at the cost of just £10 per person which includes all conference presentations and refreshments (compared to the normal price of £80 pp). If you would like to book on this first come first served offer then please contact Carl Sykes via email on carl.sykes@newport.ac.uk
BOB (Box of Broadcasts) is an incredibly useful resource that allows you to watch, record and archive TV and radio programmes
from over fifty freeview television and radio channels. BoB is
available to all University staff, researchers and students. It is
available on or off campus but is not available outside the United
Kingdom.
Searching and viewing: You can
search for programmes which other users have recorded or see other
peoples clips and playlists. Your search results will be displayed as a
list of programmes. To view, click on the programme thumbnail and click
on the on screen 'click to play' option.
Recording:
There are two ways to find a TV or radio programme to record - you can
either perform a search for a keyword or programme title in the search
box, or look through a 7 day programme guide to find the programme you
want. Users are limited to 3 programmes requests per day.
Creating playlists and clips:
Playlists can be used to collect and manage a number of related
programmes. They might be related by title (all belong to the same
series), or by topic (Politics etc). Clips can be created from longer
programmes for lectures or tutorials.
MyBob: Is your user account area where you can access and manage your recordings.
How can you access this? You simply need a computer with a broadband connection and an ATHENS account, and you can find out about that here. You can find out more about BOB here. Clearly this is an academic resource but from looking at the most highly rated playlists that's not all people are using it for - unless an awful lot of them are doing research on The Wire, Blade and NHRA Drag Racing!
January sees the launch of the National Student Survey (NSS) 2010 at most universities and colleges across the UK. Entering its sixth year, the NSS is a census of students in the final year of a course leading to undergraduate credits or qualifications across the UK. It is your opportunity to give your opinions on what you liked about your time at your institution as well as things that you felt could have been improved.
Student feedback is used to compile year on year comparative data that is:
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published on Unistats.com where prospective students and their advisors can use the results to help make informed choices of where and what to study
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useful to your university, students’ union or college to facilitate best practice and enhance the student learning experience.
You and your answers remain anonymous at all times and your contact details are only used for the purpose of the survey.
For more information and to complete the survey please visit: www.thestudentsurvey.com.
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Project RESPECT:
PhD Research Stipend
£13,290 p.a. + tuition fees waiver (full time, 3 years)
Closing date for applications: 24 March 2010
An exciting opportunity for postgraduate research has
arisen within the Newport Social Ethics Research Group (SERG). The successful
candidate will undertake a PhD and participate in the RESPECT Project, an
international and interdisciplinary research programme funded through the
European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme. We are looking to appoint an
enthusiastic and motivated individual with a strong interest in contemporary
academic debates about respect, tolerance, equality and diversity and their
application to issues of pressing social and political concern.
The research will focus on the role of tolerance and
equal respect in relation to policies for the distribution of public spaces in
culturally diverse societies. As a postgraduate researcher you will be involved
in extensive international liaison with partners in China, Cyprus, the Czech
Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Russia,
and Slovenia. This will include the attendance of workshops and conferences at
collaborating institutions, and the possibility of single-authored and/or
co-authored publications. The successful candidate will therefore have
excellent communication and organisation skills, experience of undertaking
research in a relevant discipline and, as a minimum, hold an undergraduate
degree in any relevant discipline: philosophy (esp.
applied ethics, and political philosophy), law,
sociology, politics, social policy, or related fields across the humanities and
social sciences. The ability to combine theoretical and empirical research
approaches would be ideally suited to the aims of the RESPECT Project.
To apply email a CV, a covering letter and the contact
details of two referees to serg@newport.ac.uk
* Shortlisted
candidates will be asked for a sample of written work and invited for an
on-campus interview.
* Interviews
will be held in mid-April.
* Closing date
for applications: Wednesday, 24th March 2010
* Start date: 1
June 2010 (negotiable)
* For informal
enquiries please email enzo.rossi@newport.ac.uk
or serg@newport.ac.uk
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