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May 2022 reading activity
Welcome to the TELedvisors shared reading activity for May! Reading for TELedvisors is intended to be a monthly ‘slow chat’ where you can engage with your peers and discuss a current topic related to educational technology. Each reading is intended to be not too long (avoid the TL;DR) and openly accessible and to support the…
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Connecting and bridging – the Third Space privilege
Photo: By Sam Sills – Forth bridges, Looking south, May 2021 At a recent TELedvisors event (@TELedvisors) there were thought-provoking presentations by Diane Nutt (@dixxyD) and Emily McIntosh (@emilythemac) on the concept of integrated practise, and how it can enable positive change. What do we mean by integrated practise? There are many different names for…
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Membership of the TELedvisors Network (as of 30/03/22)
It’s been a little while since we delved into the data around our members but here are stats and visualisations that you may find of interest. Where we are: We currently have 373 members over 7 countries We are associated with 85 institutions or organisations (including working freelance) We have 155 different titles as practitioners.…
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Lesson learned: Designing a virtual symposium
COVID-19 has necessitated a shift to online models for a number of activities that were previously facilitated face-to-face (F2F) or through physical presence and interaction. Education is a key area undergoing a shift, but moving learning activities online is not directly transferable or equivalent to F2F and what worked before won’t necessarily work in the same way. As such, it forces a shift in thinking, pedagogical practice…
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A Model to ‘Create’ Capability: during a Crisis and Beyond
CREATE comprises three phases: Identifying participants’ specific challenges within their Current Realities, Exploring Alternatives to resolve those challenges and Tapping Energy to win the commitment of participants’ in resolving those challenges.
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Founder Interview: Retention and Scaling Quality Interaction 2/2
ClassCom is solving 3 key problems: Teaching Assistant, Personalised Learning Experiences, and Community Building
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Founder Interview: Retention and Scaling Quality Interaction 1/2
It is harder to engage and create a sense of belonging and learning in online modes due to a lack of human interaction
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Building capability in a time of crisis
Empathy is a necessary first step that draws us all into the reality of the student, and draws the reality of the student into the classroom
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PressEdConf 2020: About this blog
A meta-post as we look back at the role of The Edvisor blog for a presentation at the 2020 PressEdConf Conference, all conducted on Twitter. PressED is a Twitter conference that looks at how WordPress is used in teaching, pedagogy and research. This year the sessions brought in WordPress projects as diverse as open textbooks…
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Design thinking for teledvisors
By Steven Kickbusch, Briony Wainman, Roger Cook, Sharon Altena, & Henk Huijser a two-minute read For the latest Meet-Up of TELedvisors, which was held in November last year at QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus, we decided to do something different and have a more focused workshop facilitated by Dr Natalie Wright and Steven Kickbusch. The focus…
