Quality Improvement Fund 2007-08
Final Report
Project Title
Embedding Information Learning
Community Learning Programmes
Technology
into
Name of
Organisation
Key Words
Caerphilly County Borough Council Community Education
Adult
• ACL
• Participation
• Consultation
• Inclusion
• Flexibility
• Active Support
• Opportunity
Background and
Activity Description
We are an ACL provider offering learning opportunities for
approximately 7,000 learners per year. Learning activities range
from short taster courses to programmes, which run part time over 2
years. Courses are both accredited and non-accredited and are
offered from 11 main centres as well as at a wide range of satellite
centres throughout Caerphilly.
We work in partnership through two established franchises with local
FE colleges. We also work in partnership with the Welsh Language
Centre, the WEA and the Genesis project.
Our activity is to explore ways in which we can embed Information
Learning Technology (ILT) into Adult Community Learning (ACL)
Programmes.
The issue arose when it was identified, following the ACBL
inspection in November 2004, that learners need to be constantly
challenged appropriate to their needs and tutors should be working
to improve teaching strategies to enhance the learner experience.
One of the ideas discussed between managers and lead tutors was
the need to develop the use of ILT throughout the programme areas.
The lead tutor for IT led on this initiative and throughout the 2007
academic year worked with a pilot group of language tutors to try to
embed ILT into their teaching. Although participating tutors were
enthused and outcomes were achieved, there have not been
sufficient resources to move this project forward into other areas of
the curriculum. At the same time the lead IT tutor and the quality
lead have been in contact with RSC Wales for advice with the
development of ILT in ACL. As part of the quality data analysis for
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the 2007 SAR it was identified through tutor reviews that only 30% of
all classes are using ILT to enthuse learners and widen the breadth
of experience in classes and to develop and share ideas, plans and
material for teaching and learning across all programme areas.
The aim is to enhance the learners’ experience in all programme
areas through the introduction of embedded ILT
Staff Objectives were to:
• Up skill tutors in the use of embedded ILT
• Raise confidence in tutors in the use of embedded ILT
• Identify existing resources and information and utilise these for
the benefit of ACL tutors and learners.
Learner Objectives were to:
• Increase retention and successful completion rates
• Enhance the experience of Adult Community Learning
Activity Outcomes
50 tutors took part in an initial training session run by RSC Wales. 18
people chose to take part in the mentor/mentee exercise which
followed. Five mentors met with 13 tutors at three different sessions
following the initial training. Mentors and mentees were matched
wherever possible by location to facilitate ease of meeting, follow up
support and progress reporting.
Achievable goals were set for each member of the team. For the
mentors these were related to the number of mentees they were
asked to support. Each mentor only supported a maximum of three
mentees and were asked to help mentees identify their use of ILT
currently and then offer ideas and suggestions for the development
of it’s use.
For the mentees the goals for the introduction/development of ILT
were linked to their field of expertise and initially involved them
identifying their current knowledge and use of ILT. They also
identified what training they needed and thought of new ideas to be
incorporated gradually, with mentors providing information and
support for change.
The identification of current use of ILT by the mentees was evident in
90% of the classes observed by the mentors however 50% of the
mentees had failed to recognise this. In the 50% that had identified
it’s use, all mentees were looking to extend how they used ILT in
their teaching and learning.
In all cases the mentees had requested further training in IT
applications in order to feel more confident in it’s use. These
requests are being looked at currently and training will be offered in
the next academic year 2008/09
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In the last session, an exercise was undertaken to measure how
their students had benefited from the mentoring sessions. Twenty
students filled in simple feedback forms. A selection of their
comments is attached in Annex C.
The activity has achieved outcomes for the organisation as well as
the learners. We have compiled an interactive toolkit; an electronic
list of resources that exist and are available to be used by tutors
throughout the county. The toolkit also lists internet resources,
websites etc. that are useful to tutors. Since we began this process
£1,900 has already been spent on resources from council funds to
support this project and these acquisitions have been added to the
toolkit.
The learner outcome associated with the toolkit is that resources
have been established, identified and added to. In addition, Learners
outcomes include less measurable benefits: tutors who took part in
sessions with mentors have more knowledge about how they can
use IT in their subject area. As tutors develop new skills in ILT they
will pass them on to students. As students become more proficient
in using IT in a variety of situations, their new skills make them more
successful in the job market and more valuable in the work place.
In the future we expect to build on the activity that has taken place to
achieve further outcomes. The toolkit is an ongoing, evolving
resource, as is tutor training delivered by lead tutors, managers and
outside agencies such as RSC Wales.
Benefits to tutors, learners and ultimately the organisation include
some softer outcomes. The one–to-one mentor/mentee process
generated confidence on both sides. It was an enjoyable exercise
and a beneficial one in that tutors were able to talk about various
problems and mentors were able to suggest solutions in some
instances.
Awareness was one of the most important outcomes achieved. Not
only was awareness of ILT resources and how they can be used,
raised for mentee/tutors, but the mentors and co-ordinators and
managers were made aware of problems and restrictions on tutors
who are working in various subject areas. For example, some tutors
did not realise that they were already using ILT to prepare lessons.
Raised awareness and the identification of problems gives us the
opportunity to work through problems and find solutions.
A longer-term analysis will be to look at retention and successful
completion of tutors involved in the project against those who were
not. However at the time of writing this report retention and
attainment data has not been put onto the MIS system for analysis.
This analysis will take place in October 2008 and the results will be
used in the development of embedding ILT into all programmes of
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learning.
Activity Outputs
• A interactive toolkit which lists all resources and their location Annex A
• A process of matching mentors with mentee/tutors for training and
trouble shooting purposes
• A process for disseminating the toolkit electronically to all staff
• Overview of Information collected from Tutors – Annex B
• Overview of Information collected from Learners – Annex C
Strengths and
Weaknesses
Strengths of the activity were:
• Mentors, tutors, co-ordinators and managers worked together to
achieve substantial goals in a relatively short time.
• Tutor/mentees came from across the curriculum so that students
studying textiles, art, languages etc benefited from the increased
understanding of how ILT can be used in ACL.
• By setting achievable goals for each member of the team,
ensured that outcomes were achieved.
• These outcomes will have a long reaching effect on ACL in
Caerphilly and will benefit learners for the foreseeable future.
Weaknesses:
• The smallness of the group meant that we were able to achieve
all goals during the time scale. However, a larger group of both
mentor and mentees would have achieved greater benefits for
learners across the curriculum
Recommendations
•
Start an exercise such as this on a small scale. This will give
insight into how much could be achieved on a larger scale, both
in terms of people involved and goals.
•
Set time goals for co-ordinators and mentors. By breaking the
project down in terms of scale and in terms of responsibilities for
each participant we successfully completed the tasks we set for
ourselves.
If we were starting the project again we would:
• Involve learners from the beginning of the project so we could
make a more effective measurement of how they have benefited
from the mentor/mentee exercise.
• Liaise with the IT department at CBC earlier in the project, as
collecting the information for and creating the Toolkit turned out to
be one of the most time-consuming and ambitious parts of the
project.
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Supporting
Documents
Interactive Tool-Kit including a Glossary of Terms - Annex A
A sample of the data collected from Tutors - Annex B
A sample of the data collected from Learners - Annex C
Information on
supporting
documents
We hope that the Interactive Toolkit will be used as a model for other
organisations.
The tutor feedback helps to locate how tutors perceived their use of
ILT before the mentor/mentee process began and how the exercise
has helped them. It will be useful to other organisations who
undertake a similar exercise in the future.
The learner feedback is, perhaps the best way to measure the
success of the project and to identify what needs to happen next to
continue this process.
Next steps
Contact Details
•
The next step is to name the interactive toolkit we have created. It
will be called ‘IT resources for Tutors’ and It will be published on
the Caerphilly CBC website and disseminated via CD-rom to new
tutors at staff meetings at the beginning of the academic year
(September 2008). Keeping in line with ESDGC (Education for
Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship) policy, the
toolkit will be available to tutors in hardcopy by request.
•
The toolkit will continue to evolve as technologies are added and
as some become obsolete, so we will develop a model to
facilitate updating the toolkit and then disseminating updated
versions to tutors.
•
Resources must continue to be added. As well as new links to
websites, we need to add more hardware to the catalogue.
•
We plan to monitor the use of the interactive toolkit by surveying
tutors in January 2009 for their views on the usefulness of the
toolkit and how it is affecting their teaching.
•
In response to tutor feedback, we will offer more IT training as
part of our CPD training. Sessions already planned include:
Interactive Whiteboard Training and basic IT for those tutors who
have used very little or no IT.
For further information, please contact
Name:
Lyn Travis
Job Title:
Senior Community Education Officer
Telephone:
01443 863200
E mail Address:
[email protected]
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IT RESOURCES FOR TUTORS
MAIN INDEX
1.
FREE ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
2.
FREE E LEARNING TOOLS
3.
CCBC LIST OF ILT RESOURCES
4.
ADULT EDUCATION CENTRES
5.
CCBC QUALITY PAPER WORK
6.
WHAT IS A FLASH DRIVES / PEN DRIVES
7.
WHAT IS AN INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD
8.
MICROSOFT SOFTWARE (and free online tutorials)
9.
BBC WEBSITE – LEARNING ZONES
10.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
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Free Resources Index
A wide range of free, quality, educational electronic resources are available on the
internet, some of these are shown below. While they have not all been developed
originally for the ACL sector, they can be freely used. We have listed some key
ones below: a quick, easy and cheap way to create or add to a digital library for
your website, intranet or VLE.
General Resources
Encyclopaedias
Dictionaries
Information Literacy Tutorials
Teaching and Learning Resources
Images
Multimedia
Free E-Books
Free E-Journals
On Line Language Resources
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General Resources
Intute
KnowUK
NewsUK
BBC
How Stuff Works
Merlot
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http://www.intute.ac.uk
http://www.knowuk.co.uk/
http://www.newsuk.co.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
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Search a vast collection of web resources specially selected and evaluated for
education and research. Covers most subject areas with 4 main subject hubs:
• Science and Technology
• Arts and Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Health and Life Sciences
“The ultimate online library of UK information”. It is available via public
libraries to anyone with a borrower’s card. Contact your local public library for
details of how to access it.
It is available via public libraries to anyone with a borrower’s card. Contact
your local public library for details of how to access it.
The BBC website has a wealth of quality material e.g. their Webwise online
course (http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/) and resources for learning Welsh
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/)
The site is increasingly commercial but still has excellent articles under
categories such as Auto, Science, Health, Electronics etc.
A US-sponsored site which has categorized links to online learning and
teaching resources.
Encyclopaedia
Http://www.wikipedia.org
The free online encyclopaedia that is freely editable by all. Quality can vary –
its reliability is often debated.
Columbia Encyclopaedia
Online
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
A free online version of the Columbia Encyclopaedia (plus a lot of adverts).
Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/
Wikipedia
CIA World Fact Book
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publicati
ons/factbook/index.html
The online version has (very) concise articles freely available. The full version
is available on subscription.
The World Factbook is an annual publication by the Central Intelligence
Agency of the United States with basic information about the various countries
of the world, such as demographics, industry, government etc.
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You may also wish to search for "Dictionary" within Intute which lists many free subject and language specific resources. Wikipedia also lists many more
online dictionaries.
Dictionaries
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Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com/
Welsh Dictionary
http://www.geiriadur.net/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgibin/wales/learnwelsh/welsh_dicti
onary.pl
BBC Website Welsh
Dictionary
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Information on what is being searched is available here:
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/about.html.
A free Welsh dictionary from the University of Lampeter.
A free online Welsh dictionary from the BBC site.
Information Literacy
Tutorials
Internet Detective
TONIC
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detec
tive/
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/online
courses/tonic/
Virtual Training Suite
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
An online tutorial using a Film Noir theme to teach basic internet skills
at college and university level. Can also be downloaded for the VLE.
Another free online tutorial: “TONIC is an easy-to-understand, practical
guide to using the Internet produced by Netskills.”
Subject-specific online tutorials to teach internet and research skills.
There are specific FE and Adult Education ones with support materials
and teaching packs.
Teaching and
Learning Resources
NLN / LearnTrain
NGFLCymru
Adult and Community
Learning
http://www.nln.ac.uk
http://www.learntrain.net/
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/
http://www.aclearn.net/
Learning and Skills Web
http://www.learningandskillsweb.
org.uk
FERL
http://excellence.qia.org.uk/hom
Access to the NLN materials = e-learning objects specially commissioned for
the UK post-16 sector. Contact Esther Barrett for a login.
The Welsh portal to teaching and learning online, including many Welsh
language resources.
Website for Adult & Community Learning which includes an E-learning
Resource Exchange
Search for teaching and learning resources from a variety of sources listed
elsewhere here: Intute (formerly the RDN), Ferl, ACLearn. Good for crosssearching, not good for browsing.
The FERL site has a Teaching Resources bank of case studies, quizzes,
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e
Rutgers
http://getit.rutgers.edu/
Images
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TASI
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/usi
ng/using.html
Yotophoto Image Search
Engine
http://yotophoto.com/
UVic's Language
Teaching Clipart Library
http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/clipart
Open Clip Art Library
http://www.openclipart.org/
Gathering the Jewels
http://www.gtj.org.uk/
presentations, webquests – an invaluable resource for teachers. It can be
searched or browsed by subject area.
Access to this site will give you very good basic tutorials for self teaching in
Microsoft word, access, powerpoint, exel, photoshop, dream weaver and many
more.
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JISC's Technical Advisory Service for Images has a wealth of information on
finding and using digital images. Explore their site for up-to-date information
on where to find images online and how to use them.
Yotophoto is a search engine for free-to-use stock photographs and images:
"Our goal is to help people locate, remix and republish open and copy left
images. We aren't just about 'free stock photos' for designers, but also about
helping educators, bloggers and digital artists find photos they can use
without fear of "the man"." The search includes Flickr images which are suitably
licenced.
About 3000 images, designed for basic language teaching but could be
suitable for a wide range of uses.
The Open Clip Art library has a database of images that are free to use and
encourages contribution.
Over 20,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other
items from museums, libraries and record offices in Wales. Images may be
downloaded and used for personal use, and for most non-commercial
educational purposes - this includes use by teachers, pupils and students, for
research or teaching purposes, within the classroom, the school, or on a
school or college intranet.
Multimedia
Moving Image Gateway
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/
index.html
Podcasts for Educators,
Schools and Colleges
http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/
The Moving Image Gateway (MIG) collects together websites that relate to
moving images and sound and their use in FE and HE. You can browse by
subject.
This is the first UK directory to find podcasts for educational use - podcasts for
teaching and learning activities with children or young people at home, school
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Google Earth
Free E-Books
Project Gutenberg
FreeBooks4Doctors
Catalogue of Free EBooks
or college. Includes videos too.
"Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic
information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as
well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and
more."
Google Earth software is free to download and Google clarified that educational
use of the free version is allowed.
http://earth.google.com/
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The oldest site for free e-books provided by volunteers. Contains many classic
titles.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://www.freebooks4doctors.c
om/
http://www.ebook.com.au/freebooks.htm
eScholarship Editions
http://content.cdlib.org/escholar
ship/index_subjects.cgi
Google Book Search
http://books.google.com/
A site that promotes free medical texts.
This is an Australian site but it provides a catalogue for e-books all over the
world.
The eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from
academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music,
religion, and fiction. Easy browsing by subject.
Currently in trial "beta" mode, this new development from Google will search
the full text of books and you have the option to limit your search to "Full view
books" which you can access online.
Free E-Journals
Directory of Open
Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
PubMed
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.g
ov/
Highwire Press
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists
/freeart.dtl
The comprehensive listing covers all subject areas. You can browse by
subject or search for titles or articles.
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free
digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. May be
of use to more advanced health and life science courses.
HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science journals on
Earth.
NB You may also wish to investigate what online resources are available from your public library and encourage students or staff to register for use of
these also.
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On Line Language
Resources
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This site has a section for languages and covers English as 2nd Language
About
http://www.about.com/education
Zut.org
http://www.zut.org.uk/index.htm
l
BBC Languages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
http://del.icio.us/rscwales/langua
ges
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tu
torial/langs
French Language German Language Italian Language Japanese Language
Mandarin Language Spanish Language
A terrific site that contains plenty of online interactive activities organised
by year group. Year 7 resources include an opportunity to listen to
conversations about holidays and decide if they are true or false. The more
difficult words are highlighted and may be selected for a translation. In
addition to audio clips, there are word searches, crosswords, worksheets
and other interesting resources. The site is free to use after 4pm and
before 9am so it could be used as a homework resource, but a subscription
is required for school use during the day."
This is a good site not only for languages but for many other learning
experiences
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the primary use of
del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access
the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from
anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember
your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.
This is one of a national series of tutorials written by qualified tutors,
lecturers and librarians from across the UK. It is part of the Intute: Virtual
Training Suite, funded by JISC
If you would like more information or have any resource queries, please contact us at RSC Wales:
• Esther Barrett, E-learning Advisor (ACL): [email protected]
Lis Parcell, Learning Resources Advisor & HE Co-ordinator: [email protected]
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Free e Learning Tools Index
Accessibility
eAssessment
Blogging
Mindmapping
Photo/video sharing
Podcasting
ePortfolios
Video/screen capture
Wikis
Miscellaneous
Social Networking
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Accessibility
AutoMouse
Clicker
Gaze Talk
Non Visual
Desktop Access
(NVDA)
PowerTalk
pVoice
ReadPlease
RoboBraille
SMIRK
Talkr
Thunder
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http://www.tucows.com/preview/347297
http://www.oatsoft.org/Software/gaze-talk
http://www.oatsoft.org/Software/nvda
http://fullmeasure.co.uk/powertalk
http://www.pvoice.org/showpage/en/pvoic
e
http://www.readplease.com/
http://www1.robobraille.org/websites/acj/r
obobraille.nsf/
http://smirk.herts.ac.uk/index.html
http://www.talkr.com/
http://www.screenreader.net
Dwell clicking software. Mouse movement is monitored when the mouse
stops for a predetermined time a click is sent. This removes the need to use
the buttons on the mouse.
A predictive text entry system that has a restricted on-screen keyboard with
ambiguous layout for severely disabled people. The main reason for using
such a keyboard layout is that it enables the use of an eye tracker with a low
spatial resolution (e.g., a web-camera based eye tracker).
A free and open-source screen reader for the Windows Operating System,
enabling blind and vision impaired people to use their computers for no more
cost than the computer and Operating System itself.
A free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show
running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.
pVoice is an application for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
(AAC).Disabled people who cannot speak and have very little possiblities to
operate a computer can use pVoice by selecting photo's or symbols to
generate speech output.
Reads any text you see on your screen - all purpose text-to-speech software
RoboBraille automates the translation of text documents into Braille and
speech. The service is available free of charge to all non-commercial users.
SMIRK a tool for capturing, producing and then sending audio-visual
presentations over the internet . SMIRK enables anybody to produce
accessible (c) presentations that can be streamed over the web. The
presentations are produced at the desk without any technician support.
Audio, graphics and captioning are the basic building blocks but other
elements such as Flash movies, video and links (internal and external) are
easy to include.
Talkr allows you to listen to text-only blogs on your MP3 Player.
Thunder is award-winning free screenreader talking software for blind and
visually impaired people. Thunder is a reading aid and restores the ability to
write, keep up to date with information, learning and work, while remaining
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within the mainstream of Society.
E-Assessmnt
EclipseCrosswor
d
http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/
index.html
Game maker
http://www.yoyogames.com/
gamemaker
Hot Potatoes
http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/
Memorize In A
Flash
http://www.memorizeinaflash.com/
Millionaire Game
Editor
http://csfsoftware.co.uk/MILL_info.htm
TOIA
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http://www.toia.ac.uk/
EclipseCrossword is the fast, easy, free way to create crossword puzzles in
minutes. It's never been simpler—just give EclipseCrossword a list of words
and clues, and it does the rest. In seconds, you'll have a crossword puzzle
with just the words you want. EclipseCrossword has been downloaded a
million times by people just like you.
Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions, you can create professional
looking games within very little time. You can make games with
backgrounds, animated graphics, music and sound effects, and even 3D
games! And when you've become more experienced, there is a built-in
programming language, which gives you the full flexibility of creating games
with Game Maker. What is best, is the fact that Game Maker can be used
free of charge.
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create
interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword,
matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot
Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for publicly funded, nonprofit, educational users who make their pages available on the web. Other
users must pay for a licence.
We strive to be the one site on the internet regarding memory and learning.
We have an FREE! online flash card program for you to study and test with.
This system will not just flash cards for you, but keep track of your progress
and test you on the cards you need tested on the most.
This software allows you to create and play your own 'who wants to be a
millionaire' games. The
software incorporates 2 programs, the Quiz program (freeware) which is
used to play the game with the question files that you write and the Quiz
Editor program (trialware) which allows you to create and edit question files
for use with the Quiz program. The package was designed to be used in an
educational context (interactive white board or projector) and runs full screen
at a resolution of 1024x768. Both programs temporarily change the screen
resolution if needed whilst in use and reset the resolution when ended.
An advanced online assessment management system available free of charge
to all UK further and higher education institutions. Optimised for compliance
with the developing international specifications for assessment content, TOIA
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VARK
Blogging
Blogger
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/
page.asp?p=questionnaire
aims to remove many of the barriers for teachers who wish to move into
computer-assisted assessment - and avoid lock-in to a particular proprietary
system.
VARK is a questionnaire that provides users with a profile of their learning
preferences. These preferences are about the ways that they want to take-in
and give-out information.
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http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=en
Blogs2teach
http://www.blogs2teach.net/
Edublogs
http://edublogs.org/
Google Blog
Search
http://blogsearch.google.com/
LiveJounal
http://www.livejournal.com/
Moblog
http://moblog.co.uk/
Photopages
http://www.fotopages.com/
Technorati
http://www.technorati.com/
Twitter
http://twitter.com/
Typepad
http://www.typepad.com/
Wordpress
http://wordpress.org
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A blog is your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact
with people, and more. All for FREE.
Produced for UK education practitioners and their learners. It allows you to easily
create, setup and manage free personalised weblogs starting from our selection of
22 basic themes. There are no cost implications and you retain full admin control
over your weblog.
Blogging tool for education use only.
Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs.
You can use LiveJournal in many different ways: as a private journal, a blog, a
discussion forum, a social network, and more.
You take photos, shoot video or capture audio with your camera phone and then
email them to us, direct from the phone, where-ever you are. The media file is then
put online in your very own mobilemulti- mediablog - instantly sharing the moment.
A website that allows you to create your own photolog. What is a photolog? It's like
a blog, but its designed for people who take lots of photographs. You can use it to
create a photo journal, a visual diary, a photo album, or even a regular blog.
Currently tracking 108.4 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social
media. They search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of
independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly
referred to as “citizen media.”
A micro blog
Premier blogging service for professionals, hosting many of the world’s most popular
blogs and small business websites. TypePad’s ease of use enables you to create a
blog in minutes.
A self hosting blogging tool with numerous amounts of plugins.
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Mindmapping
Lifetype
http://www.lifetype.net
Bubbl.us
http://www.bubbl.us
Deepamehta
http://www.deepamehta.de/
Freemind
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/
index.php/Main_Page
Labrinth
http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/
labyrinth.html
Mindmeister
http://www.mindmeister.com
Mindomo
http://www.mindomo.com
Mindraider
http://mindraider.sourceforge.net
Visual
Understanding
Environment
(VUE)
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http://vue.uit.tufts.edu/
LifeType is an open-source blogging platform with support for multiple blogs and
users in a single installation.
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
Create colorful mind maps online; Share and work with friends; Embed your mind
map in your blog or website; Email and print your mind map; Save your mind map
as an image
DeepaMehta is a software platform for Knowledge Management. Knowledge is
represented in a semantic network and is handled collaboratively. DeepaMehta
combines interdisciplinary research with the idea of Open Source to generate a true
benefit for workflow as well as for social processes. At the same time Deepa Mehta
is an indian moviedirector.
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent
development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that
the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager
because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.
Labyrinth is a lightweight mind-mapping tool, written in Python using Gtk and Cairo
to do the drawing. It is intended to be as light and intuitive as possible, but still
provide a wide range of powerful features.
MindMeister supports all the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool - only
online, and with as many simultaneous users as you like!
Mindomo is a versatile Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of
desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser - with no complex software to
install or maintain. Create, edit mind maps, and share them with your colleagues or
your friends.
MindRaider is Semantic Web outliner. It aims to connect the tradition of outline
editors with emerging technologies. MindRaider mission is to organize not only the
content of your hard drive but also your cognitive base and social relationships in a
way that enables quick navigation, concise representation and inferencing.
The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) project at Tufts UIT Academic
Technology is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital
resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible
visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.
Using VUE's concept mapping interface, faculty and students design semantic
networks of digital resources drawn from digital libraries, local and remote file
systems, and the Web.
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Photo/Video
Sharing
5min
http://www.5min.com/
Bubbleshare
http://www.bubbleshare.com
eHow
http://www.ehow.com/
Expert Village
http://www.expertvillage.com
Flickr
http://www.flickr.com
Graspr
http://www.graspr.com/html/
index.php
Instructables
Sclipo
http://www.instructables.com/home
http://sclipo.com/
SuTree
http://www.sutree.com/
VideoJug
http://www.videojug.com/
Picasa
http://picasa.google.com
YouTube
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http://www.youtube.com/
A place to find short video solutions for practical questions and a place for people to
share their knowledge.
Just upload your photos, and if you care to, remix them and add comments or your
own voice to them. BubbleShare generates a private link for your friends and family
to view and sends it with one click. You can even add your album to your blog.
Comment on articles and interact with other members through a robust set of social
networking tools. You can even write your own How To articles with our easy-touse publishing tools that let you express your knowledge through text, images, and
video.
A repository of how-to videos and articles featuring advice from recognized experts
in their fields. Our philosophy is to film and interview leading experts who teach you
what they know.
Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. It helps people make
their photos available to the people who matter to them, and it enables new ways
of organising photos
A social media and learning company building the first interactive, online
community that enables people to connect and share their life experiences and
expertise with people who are seeking it.
Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people
share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others.
A social utility that allows you to share your skills and knowledge through video and
webcam. Teach your skills and knowledge to anybody in the world through video or
webcam. Learn through videos and live webcam just about anything, health, sports,
software, cooking, cars, etc.
Index & library of free video lessons, video tutorials, video lectures & video how to
guides.
A library of factual content online. Our professionally produced, high definition
video content covers every conceivable topic and delivers the definitive online
"encyclopaedia of life".
Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you: Locate and organise
all the photos on your computer. Edit and add effects to your photos with a few
simple clicks. Share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web:
it’s fast, easy and free
Everyone can watch videos on YouTube. People can see first-hand accounts of
current events, find videos about their hobbies and interests, and discover the
quirky and unusual.
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TeacherTube
http://www.teachertube.com
Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Freecorder
Toolbar
http://applian.com/freecorder3
Wavepad
http://wavepad.en.softonic.com/
iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
download/
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net
Talkr
http://www.talkr.com
PodsafeAudio
http://podsafeaudio.com/
Podsafe Music
Network
http://music.podshow.com/
Feed For All
http://www.feedforall.com/index.htm
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Provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. Fills a need for
a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home
learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development
with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post
videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.
Free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available
for Mac OS X, MicrosoftWindows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
a revolutionary new browser-based audio recording program, combining
state of the art recording technology, ease-of-use, and some great browser
enhancements. And best of all, it's 100% FREE! You can use Freecorder
Toolbar for: Recording Songs. Extracting Audio from Videos. Recording
Internet Radio. Recording from your PC's Microphone or Line-in ports
WavePad is a sound editor for Windows that lets you make and edit voice
and other audio recordings. You can cut, copy, and paste parts of recordings
and, if required, add effects such as echo, amplification, and noise
reduction.
Want to listen to your favourite radio shows and audio and video programs
anytime? The iTunes Store offers over 100,000 podcast episodes from
independent creators and big names like HBO, NPR, ESPN, The Onion, CBS
Sports, and The New York Times.
Want to listen to internet audio programs but can't when they are
scheduled? This program lets you create your own custom online audio
anytime, anywhere. .
Provides a service that allows you to listen to your favourite text-only news
sources rather than read them. If you can point us to an RSS or Atom feed
(a machine-readable version of your favourite blog or news source) we will
convert that feed from text to speech. Talkr can also provide you with a
podcast of your favourite news sources.
This site aims to provide a location where musicians can upload music under
the Creative Commons license for use in Podcasts, Mashups, Shoutcasts,
Webcasts and every other kind of 'casting' that exists on the 'net.
This site provides podsafe music to be used within podcasts. This site also
enables you to broadcast yourown podcasts.
Create RSS feeds & podcasts, edit RSS feeds & podcasts, manage and
publish RSS feeds, create iTunes compatible podcasts
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Eportfolios
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dotFolio
http://dotfolio.org
LUSID
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/lusid
Mahara
http://www.mahara.org
OneFile
http://www1.onefile.co.uk
Petal
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/odl/pet
al/petal_home.html
The Open Source
Portfolio
http://www.osportfolio.org
dotFOLIO is an e-portfolio system with the goal of supporting lifelong
personal learning and development. dotFOLIO is an open source project.
LUSID enables you to: record your experiences and achievements and to
reflect on them in terms of skills which might well be useful for employment;
to keep a journal or log; to plan goals and activities; to perform skills audits
and access skills guidance and to automatically construct your CV.
Mahara is a fully featured open source electronic portfolio, weblog, resume
builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online
communities. Mahara is designed to provide users with the tools to
demonstrate their life-long learning, skills and development over time to
selected audiences.
OneFile ePortfolio is an easy-to-use online assessment solution that can be
used for vocational qualifications like NVQ, SVQ, ITQ, Key Skills and
Technical Certificates. Features include action planning, assessing against
criteria, providing feedback, verifying, auditing, management reporting and
much more. Our system is endorsed by City & Guilds and Edexcel as well as
being supported by many more awarding bodies.
Petal addresses the lack of open source tools designed to build ePortfolios in
the UK context. It will build on good practice and re-use existing open source
software wherever appropriate.
A personal e-portfolio is more than the CV of the 21st century, with a list of
qualifications and experience. An e-portfolio can help learners reflect on their
learning, help people move and progress from school to college to university
and into work, help workers to learn on the job, and help increase
participation in education and lifelong learning.
Individual learners and instructors use the electronic portfolio system as a
repository to store and organize digital evidence of teaching and learning.
Like a web-based file system, users can upload files of any type, organize
them in folders, and then reference them in presentations or compositions
they design to share with a particular audience or multiple audiences. For
individual students and instructors, the portfolio system provides a
convenient and accessible space and the tools to represent individual
learning and competencies.
Instructors can use the system to design guided reflective processes which
help learners integrate and enhance what they have learned. Further, it
provides a rich set of tools to design formative and summative assessments.
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Social
Networking
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AroundMe
http://www.barnraiser.org/index.php?wp=s
oftware
Bebo
http://www.bebo.com
Dolphin
http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/
Elgg
http://elgg.org
Facebook
http://www.facebook.com
Mahara
http://www.mahara.org
MugShot
http://mugshot.org/main
Myspace
http://www.myspace.com
Ning
http://www.ning.com/
PeopleAggregato
r
http://www.broadbandmechanics.com
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AROUNDMe is a suite of social tools; a social toolkit from which you can build
your Internet identity, create networks and contribute to collaborative
environments.
/ Bebo is the next generation social networking site where members can stay
in touch with their College friends, connect with friends, share photos,
discover new interests and just hang out.
All in one, customizable and under your full control. You're limited only by
your imagination - not by software. Dolphin Smart Community Builder is a
universal, free, open source software that allows you to build any kind of
online community. With a huge variety of features & options, you can quickly
develop your very unique and successful website.
Elgg is an open source social platform based around choice, flexibility and
openness. It can also be integrated with Moodle
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who
work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with
friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and
learn more about the people they meet.
Mahara is a fully featured open source electronic portfolio, weblog, resume
builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online
communities. Mahara is designed to provide users with the tools to
demonstrate their life-long learning, skills and development over time to
selected audiences.
Mugshot makes it easy to show off what you're doing online and keep track
of what your friends are up to. Mugshot is designed and developed in the
context of an open source community project
MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends,
share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual
friends!
Create a full social network for free that you can customize and brand as
your own.
Social networking and blogging are now commodity features.
PeopleAggregator brings social web features to existing software or provides
a stand alone social network of your own.
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Video Screen
Capture
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Cam Studio
http://camstudio.org
MWSnap
http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/
mwsnap.html
Quick Screen
Capture
Replay
Screencast
Screen Hunter 5
http://www.etrusoft.com
http://applian.com/replay-screencast/
index.php
http://www.wisdomsoft.com/sh/sh_free.htm
Snippy
http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/default.htm
Wink
http://www.debugmode.com/wink
VirtualDub
http://www.virtualdub.org/
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CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer
and create
industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can
turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos
(SWFs)
A small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images
from selected parts of the screen. Current version is capable of capturing the
whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed
or free rectangular part of the screen. MWSnap handles 5 most popular
graphics formats and contains several graphical tools: a zoom, a ruler, a
colour picker and a window spy. It can be also used as a fast picture viewer
or converter.
A powerful screen capture and image editing utility. It allows you to take
screenshots from any part of your screen in more than 10 ways, and save
images in BMP/JPG/GIF formats. Supports hotkey, auto-saving, clipboard.
You can edit the screenshot by drawing shapes, arrows, text, filling colour,
cropping, resizing and so on. It is easy to use and user friendly!
The easiest way to capture whatever you see on your screen, and turn it
into a video movie file, or "screencast." Plus, you can add audio from what
you hear on your speakers, or by talking through your PC's microphone.
Replay Screencast is a great way to make Software
Demos and Tutorials, produce Powerpoint Videos, record Flash, QuickTime,
and DRM protected videos, and a lot more.
A completely free screen capture software for you to easily take screenshots.
How often have you carefully selected some text from a Web page and
copied it to an email message? Snippy makes this a snap! Simply click on the
little Snippy icon in the taskbar notification area, and mark out the region of
the screen that you want to copy — that's it, you're done! The cut-out image
will now be in your clipboard, and you can paste it in another application.
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at
creating tutorialson how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel
etc). Using Wink you can capturescreenshots, add explanations boxes,
buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms
(95/98/ME/ NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License
(GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe
Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video.
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Wikis
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Google Docs
http://www.google.com/google-ds/tour1.html
JSPWiki
http://www.jspwiki.org/
MediaWiki
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
PBWiki
http://pbwiki.com/education.wiki
TiddlyWiki
http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wetpaint
http://www.wetpaint.com/
Wikispaces
http://www.wikispaces.com
Writeboard
http://www.writeboard.com/
X-WIKI
http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/
WebHome
Create, edit and upload quickly Import your existing documents, spreadsheets and
presentations, or create new ones from scratch. Access and edit from anywhere All you
need is a Web browser. Your documents are stored securely online. Share changes in
real time Invite people to your documents and make changes together, at the same
time. It’s free.
A feature-rich and extensible WikiWiki engine built around the standard J2EE
components (Java, servlets, JSP).
A free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several
other
projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis,
Start collaborating in seconds. Easy, powerful and right where you need it.. Access from
anywhere. – Eliminate schedule conflicts. Stop worrying about mailbox size limits..
Secure collaboration – It doesn’t have to be hard to use to be hardened. Let us manage
security, backups and revisions for you.. Free – Easy to upgrade at any time to one of
our industry leading premium editions.. Useful – Pbwiki means quickly engaging your
students/staff on your project.
TiddlyWiki is a single-file, self-contained wiki for managing micro-content, written in
JavaScript. A complete TiddlyWiki is stored in a single file on your computer, and thus
belongs to the class of Single Page Applications. That makes it super-easy to move your
TiddlyWiki around on a USB stick or by emailing it to yourself.
The heart of the Wetpaint advantage is its ability to allow anyone — especially those
without technical skill — to create and contribute to websites written for and by those
who share a passion or interest. To do this, Wetpaint combines the best aspects of
wikis, blogs, forums and social networks so anyone can click and type on the web.
Create simple web pages that groups, friends, & families can edit together (online).
Writeboards are sharable, web-based text documents that let you save every edit, roll
back
to any version, and easily compare changes. Use Wirteboard to write solo or collaborate
with others.
Xwiki provides web based collaborative solutions designed to effectively share and
organize information among teams, throughout your organization, and beyond. It uses
advanced Open Source technology to deliver enterprise ready solutions with the
flexibility to meet your organisation’s evolving needs.
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Flash Earth
http://www.flashearth.com
Google Earth
http://earth.google.com
Frappr
http://frappr.com
GIMPShop
http://thegimpshop.net/index.php
LAMS (Learning
Activity
Management
System)
http://www.lamsfoundation.org/
Google SketchUp
http://sketchup.google.com
Fwink
http://lundie.ca/fwink
Open Office
http://www.openoffice.org
Skype
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/
Second Life
http://secondlife.com
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An experimental application that uses satellite and aerial imagery from online
mapping websites without official consent
Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery,
maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at
your fingertips.
Frappr! is the Web's best community mapper. We help turn your ordinary
Web pages into interactive, fun and engaging destinations. Frappr! was
launched in 2005 by Kun, James and Brian, three friends from UC Berkeley
and USC who wanted to keep track of their friends' whereabouts after
college. More than 2 million Frappr! Maps have been created so far, and the
number keeps growing every day.
GIMPShop is a free Open Source image editor that is similar to the popular
Adobe Photoshop. Specifically GIMPShop is a version of the GIMP that has
been edited to be more user-friendly for Photoshop users.
New tool for designing, managing and delivering online collaborative learning
activities. It provides teachers with a highly intuitive visual authoring
environment for creating sequences of learning activities. These activities can
include a range of individual tasks, small group work and whole class
activities based on both content and collaboration.
A 3D modelling software tool that’s easy to learn, simple to use, and lets you
place your models in Google Earth. Are you remodelling a kitchen,
landscaping your back yard or adding a deck to your home? Google SketchUp
makes it faster, easier and a lot more fun.
/ Fwink is a free and open source webcam application for Windows. It takes
still images from your camera at timed intervals and puts them on your web
site with FTP. You can add effects like text messages, time stamps and an
overlay image.
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an opensource project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is
free to download, use, and distribute.
Talk, listen, watch, read, write to anyone, anywhere in the world without
worrying about cost, distance or time.
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents. Since
opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited
by millions of Residents from around the globe.
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Resources in Adult Education Centres Index
Below is a link to the ILT resources in the CCBC Adult Education
Centres
Aberbargoed AEC
Bedwas Adult Education Centre
Blackwood Community College
Crumlin Community College
Heolddu AEC
Oakdale Community College
Oxford House
Risca Basic Skills Unit
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ITL RESOURCES IN CCBC
No: Aberbargoed CEC
1 IT suite
No:
3
6
1
3
7
1
2
3
13
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
7
2
2
Bedwas AEC
Digital Voice Recorder (New)
Samsung Mega Pixel Dig Camera (NEW)
Panasonic Hard Disc Camcorder {NEW)
CD Player / Recorder (NEW)
Laptops (all out dated)
Interactive whiteboard
Whiteboard projector
Digital Cameras
PC’s
Printers (black)
Scanner
Digital Video Recorder
TV and Video
Interactive Whiteboard
OHP
TV DVD Video Player
PC’s
Printers
Video Recorders
No:
3
1
1
Blackwood Community College
3 fully equipped IT rooms
interactive whiteboard
OHP
Blackwood Community College uses Blackwood Comprehensive School’s facilities in the
evening
No:
1
1
1
Blackwood Community College
IT room equipped with
O.H.P
Interactive whiteboard
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9
1
1
No:
2
6
1
Computers in IT suite
Interactive Whiteboard
OHP
Heolddu Bargoed AEC
2007 Laptops
Olympus Digital cameras
Data projector
No:
6
8
1
3
1
1
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Oakdale Community College
Laptops (on loan from Genesis Project windows 2000 only)
Pc’s Youth Bungalow Access very limited
Portable printer
Pen drives
PC (used by College Admin Staff)
PC used by centre manager
PC’s available on limited pre booked availability
No:
1
1
3
4
2
5
6
1
3
3
3
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10
10
2
7
Oxford House (Risca) AE
NOBO S22E DLP Projector (NEW)
Panasonic Hard Disc Camcorder Plus Bags (NEW)
CD Player / Recorder (NEW)
Digital cameras (All old)
Video Recorders
TV's / (2 very old)
Coombers (4 very old)
Big coomber (tape & CD)
Boom Box portable stereo systems
Interactive whiteboards
Projectors 2 installed 1 portable
PC’s (6 very old)
Laptops (very old windows 98
Laptops (new CLP)
OHP (very old)
Printers (2 new)
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No:
13
3
3
1
1
Risca Basic Skills Unit
Computers and 6 printers in
Black (normal) Printers
Colour Printers
Lap Top
Interactive Whiteboard
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ADULT EDUCATION CENTRES
Aberbargoed CEC
Old Drill Hall
Aberbargoed
CF81 9BW
(01443) 875543
Bedwas AEC
Newport Road
Bedwas
CF83 8BJ
(029) 2085 2537
Jefferson, Mary
Jones, Brian
[email protected],
[email protected],
Blackwood Community College
Cefn Road
Blackwood
NP12 1ZR
(01495) 227113
[email protected]
Crumlin CEC
Crumlin Institute
Crumlin
NP11 4QB
(01495) 244064
[email protected]
Heolddu Bargoed AEC
Leisure Centre
Bargoed
CF81 9GF
(01443) 820695
Paul Jones
[email protected]
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Bridge Street
Newbridge
NP11 5FE
(01495) 227113
Oakdale Community College
Penmaen Road
Oakdale
NP12 0DT
(01495) 228289
Griffiths, Angela
[email protected]
Oxford House (Risca) AE
Grove Road
Risca
NP11 6GN
(01633) 612245
[email protected]
Edmunds, Gaynor
[email protected]
Risca Basic Skills Unit
Risca Library
Risca
NP11 6AS
(01633) 613551
Pauline Elcock
[email protected]
[email protected]
St Martins AEC
Hillside
Caerphilly
CF83 1UW
(029) 2086 3052
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Quality Paper Work Index
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
ADULT EDUCATION TUTOR FILES
LEARNER INDUCTION CHECKLIST
LESSON PLAN
SCHEME OF WORK
ELECTRONIC REGISTER
STUDENT ASSESSMENT RECORD
SCHEME/PROGRAMME
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ADULT EDUCATION TUTOR FILES
This is a list of items that you may like to include in your tutor file in readiness for the ESTYN / CCBC
class assessments this year.
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Class list/ register
Copy of completed scheme/programme sheet. (to be given to learners at the start of the course)
Any Course documentation/specification, syllabus, accreditation, awarding body documentation.
(For that particular course)
Copies of units being taught
Assessment schedules
Photographs of previous work (if applicable)
Scheme of work completed for the course matching the course requirements.
Lesson plans
Tracking sheet (first half term completed)
Copy of review or evaluation form/s, to be given to learners later in course.
Copy of last years tutor review form, if appropriate.
Tutor review form for this year (ongoing).
Handouts identified on lesson plans
Information on any learner induction
Correspondence with learners, example absence chasing, explanation.
Learner withdrawal forms
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COMMUNITY EDUCATION
LESSON PLAN
CYNLLUN GWERS
ADDYSG GYMUNEDOL
Class Title
Teitl y Dosbarth
Date/Week No.
Dyddiad/Rhif yr wythnos
Venue
Lleoliad
Time
Amser
Resources
Adnoddau
Aims and Objectives / Amcanion a Bwrdiadau
Tutor Activity / Gweithgaredd y Tiwtor
Curriculum Ref
Cyf. Cwricwlwm
Learner Activity /
Gweithgaredd y Dysgwr
Homework set
Gwaith Cartref a Osodwyd
Assessment
Asesiad
Comments/Actions
Sylwadau / Gweithredoedd
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SCHEME OF WORK
Week No.
Rhif yr Wythnos
CYNLLUN GWAITH
ADDYSG GYMUNEDOL
Date
Dyddiad
Topic
Pwnc
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2
3
4
5
6
7
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Electronic Register
Number in Attendance
Tutor Initials
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Week 12
Week 11
Week 10
Week 9
Week 8
Week 7
Week 6
Week 5
Week 4
Student
Telephone
Number
Week 3
Address
Week 2
Student
Name
Date of Class Meeting
Week 1
Class Title & Location:
Total
Attend
ance
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Term
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STUDENT ASSESSMENT RECORD
CentreCanolfan:
COFNOD ASESIAD MYFYRWYR
ADDYSG GYMUNEDOL
Title / Teitl:
Time / Amser: 10 - 12
Learning Outcome/Core Skills / Canlyniad y Dysgu/Sgiliau Craidd
Student / Myfyriwr
Insert date on which the learning outcome/core skill was achieved /
Cofnodwch y dyddiad pan gyflawnwyd canlyniad y dysgu/sgiliau craidd
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Comments / Sylwadau
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CYNLLUN/RHAGLEN
SCHEME/PROGRAMME
ADDYSG GYMUNEDOL
Title & Level
Teitl a Lefel
Duration
Parhad
No. weeks
Nifer o
Wythnosau
No. hrs
Nifer o
Oriau
Lleoliad
Location
General aims and course outline
Amcanion cyffredinol ac
amlinellaid cwrs
Outcomes/Accreditation
Canlyniadau/Achrediad
Students’ Progression
Datblygiad Myfyrwyr
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MICROSOFT OFFICE
Every office programme uses the same structure of windows, menus,
toolbars and dialog boxes in there operations. This makes it easier to use
the office suite as once you become familiar with one package the easier it
is to use other packages.
Microsoft Office Index
MICROSOFT WORD
MICROSOFT EXEL
MICROSOFT POWERPOINT
MICROSOFT ACCESS
MICROSOFT PUBLISHER
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
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MICROSOFT WORD
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Microsoft Office Word is a word processing programme you use to create
documents such as letters, manuals, reports, lesson plans and lots of other
documentation.
The links below are just a few of the tutorials on the internet, they will take
you to a number of web sites which allow you to access free on line tutorials.
Online Tutorials Word
1. http://www.baycongroup.com/wlesson0.htm
2. http://www.fgcu.edu/SUPPORT/office2000/word/
3. http://www.learningelectric.com/word.htm
4. http://www.learnthat.com/computers/category-29
5. http://www.bcschools.net/staff/WordHelp.htm
If you click on the link below a PowerPoint programme will load
Word Presentation
To run the demonstration please depress the Page Down key
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MICROSOFT EXEL
A spreadsheet is the computer equivalent of a paper ledger. It consists of a grid made from
columns and rows. It is an environment that can make number manipulation easy and
somewhat painless. The calculations that go on behind the scenes are tremendous and can be
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overwhelming if used on a paper based model. If you change one amount in the paper based
model, you will have to start the calculations all over again. With the computer model you can
change a number of amounts and it will calculate time and time again.
On Line Tutorials
1. http://www.baycongroup.com/el0.htm
2. http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/
3. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/FX100646961033.aspx
4. http://mistupid.com/tutorials/excel/
5. http://www.techtutorials.info/appexcel.html
6. http://www.brainbell.com/tutorials/ms-office/excel/
7. http://www.uwec.edu/HELP/excel03.htm
If you click on the link below a PowerPoint programme will load.
Exel Demonstration
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runtothe
demonstration
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MICROSOFT POWERPOINT
PowerPoint is a presentation graphics programme; it has software that helps you to create a slid
show presentation.
A slide show presentation is made up of a number of slides that can contain text, Charts, graphs,
bulleted lists, images, multimedia video and sound clips.
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Whether you need to put together a presentation of ideas and show them to a varied audience or
use them to enhance the learning experience for you students.
The links below are just a few of the tutorials on the internet, they will take you to a number of
web sites which allow you to access free on line tutorials
Online Tutorials
1. http://www.learningelectric.com/powerpoint.htm
2. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR061832731033.aspx
3. http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm
4. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/office/ppt03/
5. http://www.bellevue.edu/facresources/PowerPoint%20Tutorial%203/
menu.htm
6. http://www.presentersonline.com/tutorials/powerpoint/
NB
If you click on the link below a PowerPoint programme will load.
PowerPoint Demonstration
To run the demonstration please depress the Page Down key on the keyboard
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MICROSOFT ACCESS
Microsoft Access is a computer application used to create and manage
computer-based databases on desktop computers and/or on connected
computers (a network). Microsoft Access can be used for personal information
management (PIM), in a small business to organize and manage data, or in an
enterprise to communicate with servers
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1. http://www.brainbell.com/tutorials/ms-office/Access_2003/
2. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR061829401033.aspx
3. http://www.teacherclick.com/access2003/index.htm
4. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/office/access03/
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MICROSOFT PUBLISHER
1. http://www.officetutorials.com/publishertutorials.htm
2. http://office.microsoft.com/enus/training/CR061832741033.aspx
3. http://www.bcschools.net/staff/PublisherHelp.htm
4. http://www.learnthat.com/courses/computer/publisher2003/
5. http://desktoppub.about.com/od/publisher/Microsoft_Publisher_Tutori
als.htm
6. http://www.tutorialguide.net/microsoft/microsoft_publisher/
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MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
1. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR061832721033.aspx
2. http://www.officetutorials.com/outlooktutorials.htm
3. http://www.computer-training-software.com/outlook2000.htm
4. http://gonzo.millsaps.edu/examples/outlook/
5. http://www.sitedeveloper.ws/tutorials/spam.htm
6. http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/microsoft_outlook/
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GLOSSARY of TERMS
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
A
Active Hyperlink
Active Page
ACL
ADSL
A hyperlink that is currently selected in a Web browser. Some Web
browsers indicate the active hyperlink by changing its colour.
The page currently being edited in the Web Page Editor.
Adult Community Learning
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines, A technology used to provide
broadband internet over a standard telephone line. This is the most
popular modem technology used worldwide for broadband access.
B
Blog
Refers to a weblog, a web page that contains journal like entries and
links that are updated daily for public viewing.
C
CD ROM
Compact Disk, Read Only Memory; a high-capacity secondary storage
medium. Information contained on a CD is read-only.
CD-R Drive
A type of disk drive that can create CD-ROMs and audio CDs. CD-R
drives that feature multi session recording allow you to continue adding
data to a compact disk which is very important if you plan on using the
drive for backup.
CPU
Central processing unit; the part of a computer that oversees all
operations and calculations.
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Cookie
A small piece of information you may be asked to accept when
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connecting to certain servers via a web browser. It is used throughout
your session as a means of identifying you. A cookie is specific to, and
sent only to the server that generated it.
Cut & Paste
A type of editing in which data is copied or moved from one location
to another. Example: rearranging paragraphs within a document.
D
Domain
Download
Part of an Internet address.
The process of transferring one or more files from a remote computer
to your local computer. The opposite action is upload.
E
E-Learning
Electronic learning; applies to a wide scope of processes
including Web-based learning, computer-based instruction,
virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. Content may be
delivered in a variety of ways including via the Internet, satellite
broadcast, interactive TV, and DVD- or CD-ROMs.
F
Flash Drives
See Pen Drives
G
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H
Hard Disc
A storage device that holds large amounts of data, usually in the range
of hundreds to thousands of megabytes. Although usually internal to
the computer, some types of hard disk devices are attached separately
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for use as supplemental disk space. "Hard disk" and "hard drive" often
are used interchangeably but technically, hard drive refers to the
mechanism that reads data from the disk.
Home Page
A document you access using a web browser like Netscape or Internet
Explorer. It usually refers to the first page of a particular web site; it
also is the page that automatically loads each time you start your
browser.
HTML
Hyper Text Markup Language - This is the language that web pages are
written in. If you right-click when looking at a page and select 'view
source', you can see what it looks like.
HTTP
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol; a set of instructions that defines
how a web server and a browser should interact. Example:
When you open a location (e.g., enter a URL) in your browser,
what actually happens is an HTTP command is sent to the web
server directing it to fetch and return the requested web page.
Hyperlink
Connects one piece of information (anchor) to a related piece of
information (anchor) in an electronic document. Clicking on a
hyperlink takes you to directly to the linked destination which can
be within the same document or in an entirely different
document. Hyperlinks are commonly found on web pages and in
Acrobat files.
I
ICT
ILT
Information and Communications Technology
Information Learning Technology
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Internet
A worldwide network based on the TCP/IP protocol that can
connect almost any make or model of popular computers from
micros to supercomputers
Interactive White
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Board
Intranet
Internet Explorer
IPS
INTUTE
It is a presentation device that interfaces with a computer. The
computer images are displayed on the board by a digital projector,
where they can be seen and manipulated
An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet protocols
and network connectivity to securely share part of an organization's
information or operations with its employees.
A client program from Microsoft that comes pre installed on most
new IBM PC or compatible computers; enables you to browse
the World Wide Web.
Internet Service Provider; an organization or company that
provides Internet connectivity for a fee.
Is a consortium of seven universities working with a whole host of
partners, it offers a free online service providing access to the very best
web resources for education and research. All material is evaluated and
selected by a network of subject specialists to create the Intute
database.
J
JISC
Joint Information Systems Committee
K
Keyword
Most often refers to a feature of text editing and database
management systems; a keyword is an index entry that
correlates with a specific record or document.
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L
LSC
Learning and Skills Council.
M
Memory Stick
Megabyte (MB)
See Pen Drives
1,024 x 1,024 (2 to the 20th power) bytes; it's usually sufficient
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to think of a megabytes as one million bytes.
Mailing List
A collection of e-mail addresses identified by a single name;
mailing lists provide a simple way of corresponding with a group
of people with a common interest or bond.
Microsoft Windows
A group of operating systems for IBM PC or compatible computers;
Windows provides a graphical user interface so you can point and click
to indicate what you want to do.
Modem
A device that enables a computer to send and receive information over
a normal telephone line. Modems can either be external (a separate
device) or internal (a board located inside the computer's case)..
N
Network
NLN
A group of interconnected computers capable of exchanging
information. A network can be as few as several personal computers on
a LAN or as large as the Internet, a worldwide network of computers.
NLN Materials are small, flexible 'bite-sized' episodes of learning.
O
Online
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A term that has commonly come to mean "connected to the Internet". It
also is used to refer to materials stored on a computer (e.g., an online
newsletter) or to a device like a printer that is ready to accept
commands from a computer.
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Password
A secret combination of characters used to access a secured resource
such as a computer, a program, a directory, or a file; often used in
conjunction with a username.
Pen Drive
Is a storage device that uses flash memory, a pen drive tend to
physically imitate conventional hard drives in size, shape, and interface
so that they may act as a replacement for hard drives
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Podcasting
Method of publishing files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe
to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription.
Q
R
RAM
RDN
Random access or main memory which is the amount of memory
available for use by programs on your computer.
Resource Discovery Network
ROM
Read Only Memory; a special type of memory used to store programs
that start a computer and do diagnostics. Data stored in ROM can only
be read and cannot be removed even when your computer is turned off.
Most personal computers have only a few thousand bytes of ROM.
Contrast to
RSC
Regional Support Centre (Wales)
S
Search Engine
Smart Board
A tool that searches documents by keyword and returns a list of
possible matches; most often used in reference to programs such as
Google that are used by your web browser to search the Internet for a
particular topic.
See Interactive White Board
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Spam
Spyware
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In the context of the Internet, electronic junk mail that promotes a
commercial product or web site
Any software that covertly gathers user information, usually for
advertising purposes, through the user's Internet connection.
T
Tool Bar
On a graphical user interface system, a bar near the top of an
application window that provides easy access to frequently used
options.
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U
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
Up Load
The process of transferring one or more files from your local computer
to a remote computer. The opposite action is download.
USB
A convenient way by which peripherals can be attached to your
computer without having to open the case up. Normally when your
installing a USB device you will have been provided with a CD, put the
CD in the computer before attaching the device, wait for the CD to
autorun and follow the on screen instructions.
USB Drives
See Pen Drives
USB Sticks
See Pen Drives
USB Memory
See Pen Drives
V
Virus
A program intended to alter data on a computer in an invisible fashion,
usually for mischievous or destructive purposes. Viruses are often
transferred across the Internet as well as by infected diskettes and can
affect almost every type of computer. Special antivirus programs are
used to detect and eliminate them.
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Virtual Learning Environments
W
X
Y
Z
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BBC WEB SITE LEARNING ZONES
1.
Adult Learning
2.
Art and Design
3.
Art and Design
4.
Building Skills
5.
Business Studies
6.
Cars
7.
Children's Learning
8.
Crafts
9.
English
10.
Environmental Studies
11.
Food and Catering
12.
Gardening
13.
Health and Nursing
14.
History
15.
Homes
16.
Information Technology
17.
Languages
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18.
Legal and Consumer
19.
Maths
20.
Media Studies
21.
Music
22.
Performing Arts
23.
Personal Development
24.
Religious Studies
25.
Schools
26.
Science
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What is an interactive whiteboard?
It is a presentation device that interfaces with a computer. The computer images are
displayed on the board by a digital projector, where they can be seen and manipulated.
Users can control software both from the computer and from the board. Participants can
add notations, and emphasize by using a pen and or highlighter tool. By using his finger as
a mouse, the teacher or student can run applications directly from the board. Another user
at the computer can also have input. Any notes or drawings can then be saved or printed
out and distributed to group members.
The board is typically mounted to a wall or on a floor stand.
They are used in a variety of settings such as in classrooms at all levels of education, in
corporate board rooms and work groups, in training rooms for professional sports
coaching, broadcasting studios and more.
If you require any training on a whiteboard please contact ?????????
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Flash Drives Pen Drives
The USB flash drive is an ideal device for transferring data between two PC's using their
USB ports. USB flash drives are also known as "pen drives", "flash drives", "USB drives",
"USB Sticks" Memory Sticks and a wide variety of other names. See image below.
A flash drive is a storage device that uses flash memory (Flash
memory is non-volatile computer memory that can be electrically
erased and reprogrammed.) Flash drives tend to physically imitate
conventional hard drives in size, shape, and interface so that they
may act as a replacement for hard drives. Note that with nothing
being mechanically driven in a flash drive, the name is actually a
misnomer. The motivation to call it a "drive" comes from the fact
that it is serving the purpose of a part that has traditionally been
mechanically driven. These days Flash Drives tend to be 50 -75 mm long and can hold up
to 30 giga bytes of information
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Annex B
Quality Improvement Fund 2007-08
Embedding Information Learning Technology into Adult Community Learning
Programmes
Annex B is a selection of actions and feedback gathered from tutors by their mentors during
and at the end of the exercise. 13 tutors were mentored. The raw data is available from Lyn
Travis, but is not attached here.
Discussed various forms of ILT that could be used within lessons, e.g. Internet for
researching patchwork quilt patterns and designs, downloadable PowerPoint presentations
to demonstrate patchwork techniques and digital photography/video recording for recording
students’ work.
As Karen teaches practical subjects (patchwork/cookery) it is sometimes difficult to
provide the actual product for moderation, therefore photographic evidence is vital.
Karen does use IT in her lessons but did not realise how much more is available to
her. I have directed her to various websites that have resources, i.e. handouts, PowerPoint
presentations, virtual tours of quilting museums and software for creating design patterns
etc, which may be of use to her and allow her to create diversity within her lessons.
To conclude, Karen would like to use more ILT in her lesson but feels that to be able
to do this proficiently and with confidence, she would need to undertake some training and
has requested word processing and email training sessions.
Discussed various forms of ILT that could be used in lessons, e.g. Internet for researching,
downloadable PowerPoint presentations to demonstrate painting techniques and digital
photography/video recording for recording students’ work.
As Janet teaches a practical subject (art) it is sometimes difficult to provide the actual
product for moderation, therefore photographic evidence is vital.
Janet was particularly interested in the various art museums websites that provide
‘virtual tours’ of their collections.
Although Janet is very enthusiastic about using ILT in her lessons, she indicated that
she has no experience using any of the technologies available to her. She will need tuition
in all areas. As she has an Apple Mac, she would appreciate some training in getting better
use from her Mac.
Discussed the use of ILT in subjects that Nick teaches. Suggested more computer quizzes
and Powerpoint. Nick would like training on interactive whiteboard
Suggested IT room when weather is not good, but rooms are fully booked. He could
use laptops which are available but would need Bluetooth or wireless router to access
Internet resources on gardening. The laptops software needs to be updated.
Pauline has wide IT experience but needs to keep up to date with skills – Looked at OCN
Wales for course help. Problem is storage as she travels between classes. Suggested
Moodle and a guide wit be sent once she has registered with CCBC. She has been waiting
since October! Small DVD players left at centre for all language classes would be helpful.
Discussed possible use of PowerPoint and email. Some training needs identified re: Word
and PowerPoint. Currently uses Internet for research. Suggested possibility of emailing
learners with tasks/homework, but Jenny felt that some learners may feel disadvantaged by
not having internet access or the necessary skills to use it.
Jenny is going to start creating her lesson plans using the computer. Downloading
course materials and printing it for students.
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Annex C
Quality Improvement Fund 2007-08
Embedding Information Learning Technology into Adult Community Learning
Programmes
Annex C is a selection of feedback gathered from Learners at the end of the exercise.
The sample is taken from 20 forms that were filled out. The raw data is available from Lyn
Travis, but is not attached here.
The first two questions asked learners to make their assessment on a scale of 0 – 6. ( 0 =
not at all, and 6 = all the time.)
Q1: Would you say that your tutor used ILT to teach this course.
6 answered 6
6 answered 3
4 answered 0
2 answered 5
1 answered 2
1 answered 4
Q2: Would you say that you have used ILT during your course?
This is an easier question for learner’s to answer as it is based on their own experience.
6 answered 3
5 answered 6
5 answered 5
4 answered 0
Questions 3 and 4 asked for Learner’s comments.
Q3: How has the use of ILT made a difference to your learning during the course?
The responses to this questions varied substantially. A selection of them are:
‘Preparation, research and setting out work.’
‘It has helped with the duplication of work.’
‘No’
‘not really’
‘document preparation, accumulating statistics’
‘able to get information quickly’
‘Being able to write and reproduce my work as well as corrections and cutting down on the
time it would take to write by hand.’
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Annex C
Q4 : Are there any learning technologies that your tutor could use which would help
you to learn your subject?
Again the responses were varied:
‘No.’
‘Not that I can think of.’
‘Use OHP instead of so much paper.’
‘We could use the computers in the classroom.’
‘internet’
‘radio and tapes for interesting articles’
‘websites’
‘pronunciation’
‘Powerpoint might be helpful.’
‘yes’
‘overhead projection’
Finally, learners were asked for general comments about the use of ILT.
A selection of the comments are below:
‘Being an adult learner I find it a boon with writing.’
‘Use of word and a printer has been a great help.’
‘It can be extremely useful.’
‘Keep us in touch with new technology.’
‘Brilliant and couldn’t work so well without it.’
‘No time in English class.’
‘It would be difficult to do this course without it.’
A selection of follow up reports – 6 weeks after original meeting between tutors and their
mentors:
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Annex C
Karen feels that the project was useful in that it directed her to the many resources that are
available for tutors to use, however she felt that without the training and support that is
needed to be able to use these confidently she would not be using any additional ILT in her
lessons.
Janet feels that the project was useful as it gave her an awareness of the resources that are
available to her. She would like to use ILT in her lessons but feels that she will need a lot of
tuition in all areas to make this possible.
Nick’s students are adults with learning difficulties so only did 4 sheets due to the time it took
to fill in the questionnaires (he was teaching). Pleased to see me again & hear about ILT
follow up. Nick found the PowerPoint useful. Hasn't been able to do any IT teaching as no
rooms available on a Thursday. Also the laptops still do not have updated software. He
hopes this will be resolved by September?
Not many ESOL students in Pauline’s class were in due to holidays (returning to Poland).
Not that interested in IT more concerned with the grammar not technical English. Most
students are IT literate. The class is in a school setting, hasn't got access to school
computers, but hasn't asked to use them either. Only have 2 hour sessions & students want
to speak & write English correctly
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