The slides I have used for a presentation / demonstration at Dr Tracy Simmon's Media and Communication lecture on the 20th of Feb, 2013.

1. Technologies to support
learning at Leicester
Dr Palitha Edirisingha
Beyond Distance Research Alliance
University of Leicester, UK
20 Feb 2013
Department of Media and Communication
MS3010

2. Our plan…
• Who we are and what we do: our research and
teaching
• Tablets and Apps..
• ‘Past’ Forward: digitising the past for future
learners
• Second Life
• All about the Voice: podcasting
• Getting connected: Adobe Connect for remote
participation and collaboration

3. Who we are …
what we do…

4. Tablets and Apps..

5. Delivering a course to learners in conflict zones
through an iPad App
Department of Criminology, University of Leicester
Website:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2012/march/criminology-pilots-use-of-ipads-and-
apps-to-aid-learning-in-conflict-zones
YouTube video (3 ½ minutes):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILB5gX4w7vI
Article in the Guardian newspaper
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/feb/18/distance-learning-through-
technology

6. ‘Past’ Forward:
digitising historical material
for future learners

7. My Leicestershire Digital Archive
(MLDA)
http://myleicestershire.org.uk
An electronic collection of photographs, trade directories, film, oral
history and books on the history of Leicester and Leicestershire.
Materials have been provided, digitised and catalogued by a
partnership between
BBC Radio Leicester
East Midlands Oral History Archive
Leicestershire Industrial History Society
Media Archive for Central England
Rothley Heritage Trust,
Individual local historians, and
the University of Leicester.
Example search “Wright's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1880”

8. Second Life

10. SWIFT Project
Project website at:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/swift
YouTube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMfHZUNpZY

11. All about the (recorded)
Voice: podcasting

12. A podcast is
• a digital media file
• that plays sound (or sound and visuals)
• made available from a website (via the internet, VLE)
• can be opened and / or downloaded and played on a
computer, and / or
• downloaded from a website (e.g., VLE) to be played
on a portable digital player
(Salmon et al., 2008, p. 20)

13. Examples of podcasting at
Leicester
Professor John Fothergill, Engineering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2_1WkXhbTk
Dr Ray Randall, Occupational Psychology
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-
alliance/projects/duckling
Student-created podcasts
http://www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/startinguni/
More resources here
www.impala.ac.uk
And here
www.podcastingforlearning.com

14. Podcasting to support student learning
Learning activities Guidance and support
New possibilities
Learning on location
through technology
Listening to sound, Improve distance
voice and learning learner experience

15. Designing podcasts

16. http://www.atimod.com/podcasting/PDModel.html

17. Length of a podcast
2 minutes 6 minutes 2 minutes
Beginning Middle End

18. Recording and editing software

19. Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Lame encoder
http://lame.sourceforge.net/
Appendix: How to create podcasts –
practitioner’s guide (pp. 188 - 204)

20. Getting connected: Adobe
Connect for remote
participation and
collaboration

21. Supervision, tutorials and training workshops
with Masters and PhD students
Adobe Connect collaboration environment
Examples:
BDRA PhD research training workshop - 18 Feb 2013
Student presentations
https://connect.le.ac.uk/p3f01oklchl/
APG process (Dr Tracey Simmons) [21 minutes, 43 minutes]
https://connect.le.ac.uk/p3z7f4cx746/
Writing early, writing regularly (Prof David Hawkridge) and Framing your study (Dr Chris Comber)
https://connect.le.ac.uk/p87zdsculun/ [I hr 41 mins]

22. Thank you
• pe27@le.ac.uk