TechTrain

Discover & try innovative ways to use & adopt easy to use technologies. Create or enhance resources or be inspired in your teaching, learning & practice. Come as a team for an intense & enjoyable 24 hour professional development experience or come as an individual and join with others.

Themes

E-learning

Details

Using the technology-rich learning spaces of the Centre for Excellence in interdisciplinary mental health SWAP wanted to encourage:

HEI teams to come and engage in an active learning experience to support the development of a strategy/artefact/resource/plan - for extending the effective use of technology in teaching and learning activities in their programme/dept/school etc.

Individuals were welcome to sign up and teams were created with those individuals attending.

Teams included teaching staff, learning technologists, educational developers, students, administrative and support staff,service user educators.

Programme - Tuesday 1 April
Time
11:00-12:00	Registration and room check-in
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:15-13:45	Welcome
13:45-15:15	Group session 1
15:15-15:45	Break
15:45-17:15	Group session 2
17:15-17:30	Break
17:30-18:15	Debate

Programme - Wednesday 2 April
Time
07:00-08:30	Breakfast
09:00-10:45	Group session 3
10:45-11:15	Break
11:15-12:30	Group session 4
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-15:30	Finale/showcasing

Tools and Software demos

There were some exciting software demos and workshops that took place at the event including contributions from the following organisations.

* Centre for Digital Storytelling, California - http://www.storycenter.org
* Wimba - http://www.wimba.com/uk
* Pebblepad - http://www.pebblepad.co.uk
* Elluminate - http://www.elluminate.com
* Jorum - http://www.jorum.ac.uk
* Policy Review TV - http://www.policyreview.tv

The format for these workshops varied with presenters either attending the event in person, or showcasing their online capabilities from a remote location via the internet

Coaches

The following coaches also attended the event:

Phil Haynes; Deputy Head of the School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton
Phil has extensive experience in developing e-learning and specialises in making digital education movies.

Alan Howe; Senior lecturer in Social Work at the University of Gloucestershire
Alan has a background in psychology, counselling, social work study supervision, training and consultancy.

Tarsem Singh-Cooner; Associate Director, The Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health, Uni of Birmingham
Tarsem, a qualified senior social work practioner, manages the production, design and development of the Centre’s e-Learning materials and systems.

Simon Ball; Senior Advisor, TechDis - The Higher Education Academy York Science Park
Simon leads the work of TechDis in higher education and has produced materials on E-assessement.

Phil Wane; Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
Phil has extensive experience of delivering a wide range of undergraduate teaching, but his primary interest is now focussed on the impact of technology on society.

Janice West: Lecturer for the School of Social Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University

Anne Quinney: Lecturer for the School of Health and Social Care at Bournemouth University

Julia Waldman: Deputy Director, SWAP