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1. Technology in Staff Development: Going Mobile SDF Spring Conference 30 th April 2010 Andy Ramsden Head of e-Learning University of Bath http://go.bath.ac.uk/andyramsden eatbath-present andyramsden http://www.bath.ac.uk/lmf/download/44296 URL

3. Activity 1: across to you Who are you? What would you like from this session?

4. Activity 2: where are we with technologies? What technologies are people currently using in their staff development sessions? How effective are they? What are the strengths and weaknesses?

6. Activity 4: Design a “generic” staff development activity Question: in groups could you work up a typical staff development scenario (session) you run? Describe the room, the tasks you want people to do, the capture methods, the technologies you are likely to use and what you are trying to achieve with them

7. The how: theoretical: (Salmon) present present new new pedagogy Mission (markets) Existing students Existing technologies Existing students New technologies New students New technologies New students Existing technologies Core technologies, established services which feel owned by the University (BUCS, e-learning, web services, Registry). Full staff and student support and development programmes. If externally hosted then supported, with exit (migration plans) Non core technologies, These tend to be pilot projects by a range of Departments, Faculties and central teams scenario 2 - location aware learning activities scenario 1 - the facilitator uses the device, participants contribute via phone (sms)

9. Activity 6: designing in mobile technologies Question: revisit your previous staff development scenario (session) but design in effective use of mobile technologies. How have these scenarios changed? what opportunities do the technologies offer?

10. What are the barriers to use? Staff skill sets ... Time for training Privacy issues

12. final thoughts Andy Ramsden [email_address] eatbath-present andyramsden URL “ using the clickers, every student has to question and think about her/his method to arrive at the solution (and cannot just passively lean back in the problem’s class and see what happens)” – Bernd Sing, Mathematics, University of Bath.