Free webinars Spring 2012

The following webinars relating to technology-enhanced learning are offered at no charge by JISC and other organisations in the next few weeks:

• 27 April 13:00 (BST) JISC Techdis - Xerte for supporting dyslexic learners (and international students)

This month's Xerte Friday free lunchtime training slot is on "Xerte for supporting dyslexic learners (and international students)." Which Xerte templates would you use if you really wanted to make dyslexia friendly resources? In this session we give you our pick of suggested templates and some ideas on keeping resources inclusive.Join us at 13:00 (BST) on Friday, 27 April. www.instantpresenter.com/techdisonline104 Sessions last around 45 minutes.  All you need to take part is an Internet connected computer with a headset/earphones.

• 27th April, 14:00 BS JISC Mozilla and Web Literacies http://jisc-dl-mozilla.eventbrite.com  Erin Knight & Michelle Levesque 

Digital literacy is not word processing or watching movies on an iPhone, but instead using technology to create, code and collaborate. In today's world, that necessarily includes the Web. Building a generation of young ‘webmakers’ is key to job creation, international competitiveness and engagement in civil society.

In this webinar, Mozilla will talk about their work in this area to define key Web literacy skills, create pathways for innovative learning experiences around them and build a network of instructors and facilitators with a shared mission.

• 2 May Professor Geoffrey Crisp (RMIT University, Australia) and Dr Mathew Hillier (University of Queensland, Australia) - The ReMarksPDF e-Grading workflow

Presenter: Professor Stephen Colbran (University of New England, Australia / CEO ReMarksPDF Pty Ltd) This webinar will explore electronic marking (grading) workflow including e-submission, allocation, marking, moderation and release using ReMarksPDF. The session covers issues surrounding e-assessment workflows, electronic approaches to moderation for marking teams and the integration of ReMarksPDF with Blackboard 9.1 and Moodle 2.1.

Audience members are encouraged to participate and contribute.

Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 07:00AM UST/GMT. See your equivalent local time at: http://timeanddate.com/s/2836A recording of the session will be published after the event.To join the webinar go to: http://bit.ly/TA_webinar_room 

So that we can gauge expected numbers please RSVP via email to: 'rsvp at transformingassessment.com'. Please use the subject line: "RSVP webinar 2 May 2012". (Note: you will receive an automated response containing further information)

• 4th May, 13:00 BST JISC Digital Literacies and the EU http://jisc-dl-eu.eventbrite.com Tabetha Newman & Sarah Payton

Over the past five years the concept of digital literacy has been of increasing interest and importance in UK education research, across all sectors. At around the same time that JISC started the Learning Literacies in a Digital Age project (2008), two other notable projects began:

1. A review of definitions and models of digital literacy, covering all sectors and ages, which then led to various conference talks and the creation of resources for use in primary schools (carried out by Tabetha Newman on behalf of Becta), and
2. The Digital Participation research project, run by the independent research organisation ‘Futurelab’, who worked with practising educators, experts and children in primary and secondary schools to explore how digital literacy could be developed within a range of school subjects (on which Sarah Payton was a lead researcher).

Since then, the outputs of these projects have come to the attention of European Union education policy makers – who are currently incorporating the work into EU policy research on 'Digital Competence' (one of the eight EU Key Competences for Lifelong Learning).
 
This webinar will provide an overview of these wider UK and European Digital Literacy contexts. We will:Summarise some of the leading definitions and models of digital literacy (Tabetha),Offer examples of digital literacy in practice in the UK schools sector (Sarah),Provide an overview of current EU policy relating to digital literacy in all sectors and contexts, both within and outside formal educational settings (Tabetha),Signpost relevant resources that have emerged from the Becta and Futurelab projects (Sarah)

• 11 May (12:00-13:00) - JISC Tools to support effective assessment and feedback: Viewpoints project (University of Ulster) .  Further details and booking 

• 14 May (12.30-13.30) - JISC Managing learning-scale institutional change: lessons and approaches from the curriculum design programme. Further details and booking.
• 16 May (13:00-14:00) - JISC The role of coaching in supporting assessment and feedback: lessons from the PC3 project (Leeds Met University).  Further details and booking.