Andy Pulman Edublog

Just back from presenting a paper at the Serious Games Conference with Mark Shufflebottom focusing on the production of a serious game. The project, a collaboration between the School of Heath and Social Care and NHS South West, was one of three HSC e-learning initiatives granted funding during 2007. Mark worked with myself and Ruth Lewis from the HSC Clinical Skills team to create a web-based virtual simulation of an infection control scenario. This presentation included a brief q and a and a demo of the application.

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Serious Games on the Move 2008

Attended a really enjoyable and stimulating e-learning conference at Plymouth today. Here’s my session on Web 2.0 @ BU – Use of Wikis within the School of Health & Social Care (instead of using powerpoint this session utilised a wikispace)

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Date & Time Of Presentation : Friday 4th April 2008 at 11.45am - 12.15pm

Steve Wheeler’s Conference Round-up

Instead of using powerpoint this session utilises a wikispace:

RE: Innovative Learning and Teaching - Wikis

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Date & Time Of Presentation : Wednesday 19th March 2008 at 2pm - 2.50pm

Instead of using powerpoint this session utilises del.icio.us:

Staff Development Session : Gaming & Simulation

Date & Time Of Presentation : Wednesday 19th March 2008 1.00 to 1.50pm

Instead of using powerpoint this short presentation utilises a wikispace:

RE: Learning from Experience: Using Wikis and Blogs as part of your teaching strategy

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Date & Time Of Presentation : Thursday 14th February 2008 at 1pm - 2pm

Instead of using powerpoint this session utilises a wikispace:

RE: Innovative Learning and Teaching - Wikis

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Date & Time Of Presentation : Wednesday 7th November 2007 at 1pm - 1.50pm

Instead of using powerpoint this session utilises del.icio.us:

Staff Development Session : Gaming & Simulation

Date & Time Of Presentation : Wednesday 17th October 1.00 to 1.50pm

If you didn’t attend ALT-C 2007 or fell asleep during my presentation on the HEAT Project (Does a handheld gaming device make an effective assistive technology tool?) then here’s a link to the slides.

The presentation describes the evaluation of an innovative TechDis Higher Education Assistive Technology (HEAT) project investigating the use of the Nintendo DS Lite and Brain Training software package as an assistive technology tool for students from IHCS requiring help with numeracy during the autumn term of 2006. It provides an overview of using mobile devices within a higher education environment and seeks to raise awareness of some of the possibilities that can be created for students and staff.

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Peter Murray at Informaticopia mentioned our ALT-C 2006 presentation and being concerned “about the control factor they seemed to be imposing”.

Just to clarify this point, during our blogging@bu pilot although some of the pilots in IHCS and SM were/will be behind a firewall due to issues of content we did run blogs in the clear using a variety of products - blogger, bloglines, elgg and the ubiquitous edublogs. Sorry if this point didn’t come across in our presentation, but it is an interesting area open to debate. There are plenty of instances as to why it might be advisable to exercise control in some cases. One such case can be seen at Slashdot

The slides from the Blogging@BU presentation can be viewed here