Child Protection Scenario for Registered Practitioner Portfolio

This exercise provides an opportunity to make decisions based on a scenario which students may experience in their workplace. It is an interactive story which aims to teach students how to recognise the signs and take the right course of action when dealing with child abuse.

The animated story was created in Flash and placed in Perception so that students receive immediate feedback on their chosen course of action.

Content by Caroline Leeson, Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood Studies. Site created by Melanie Roberts and Mark Pannell (LTs)

http://demo.lsa.plymouth.ac.uk/cps/cpsweb/index.htm

360 degree Panoramic Campus Tours

These 360 degree panoramic campus tours were originally intended to appear on the Extranet to market the distributed campuses of the University!

Created by Sid White (EDaLT) and Flea Palmer, (EDaLT)

http://demo.lsa.plymouth.ac.uk/vr/location/swmap.html

ILS Education Induction

This resource aims to support Education students using electronic resources available through the library. It is split into 4 short modules with each being approximately 4 minutes long. Modules can be downloaded in various formats:- as a webcast combining video with PowerPoint slides (shown ); audio with PowerPoint; audio only or text only.

The site was created using Microsoft products - PowerPoint, MovieMaker and Producer - all of which are already available on UoP computers (although Producer must be downloaded free from the Microsoft site). This enables all to create web and podcasts.

ILS Education Induction was created by Wendy Martin (PCET Programme Leader) and Jonathan Smart (ILS Education) with help from Flea Palmer and Mark Pannell (EDaLT)

http://www2.plymouth.ac.uk/distancelearning/ILS_Education_Induction/index.html

Catfish - A Virtual Tour

The boat 'Catfish' is based in the School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Sciences and is used for a wide range of fieldwork activities (including hydrography, physical and chemical oceanography, biological surveys and navigation).

The website aims to give students essential information on carrying out water sampling in an estuarine system onboard Catfish, enabling them to be better prepared for timetabled module practical sessions.

Funding to develop this website facility was allocated to Drs Maeve Lohan and Malcolm Nimmo from the CETL "Experiential Learning in Fieldwork" project as part of the personal funding for staff initiative. All technical developments of the website were carried out by Phil Tubman, FLT for Science.

http://www2.plymouth.ac.uk/science/catfish/default1.htm

¡Adelante!

¡Adelante! is a resource for learning Spanish. It aims to promote and supports second language acquisition within the University of Plymouth and its partners. Although it is targeted to students taking Languages modules, all students and staff with an interest in Spanish can benefit from it.The activities available are self-study exercises, created in Hot Potatoes, designed to allow easy and open access to a grammar based bank of materials organised in three levels of competence. Listening and Translation exercises are also available, together with cultural resources and related links.

http://intranet.plymouth.ac.uk/spanish/intranet.htm

For further Hot Potatoes examples see http://hotpot.uvic.ca/wintutor6/index.htm

Designing Assignments to Avoid Plagiarism

Plagiarism Tutorials

This is the 4th tutorial in a series of 'What is Plagiarism?' tutorials.

These tutorials, created in Flash, are designed to offer staff guidance on how to prevent their students from plagiarising. There are 5 different tutorials in total to work through. Each take about 15 minutes to complete.

This resource, created by Mark Eggins, Faculty Learning Technologist for UPC, can be found on the EDaLT website in the Resources section.

https://exchange.plymouth.ac.uk/intranet///edalt/Public/Sections/Resources/plagiarism%20materials/4.%20Designing%20Assessment%20to%20aviod%20Plagiarism/flash/DesigningAssignments.swf

Perception Tensile Test Demo using Captivate

Perception Drag and Drop Examples

As well as general support the learning technologist can also assist with creating more advanced Perception questions. For example drag and drop questions.

Here is an example, from an engineering module, of the use of a Drag and Drop question in Perception. This resource was created by Becki Allen, the Faculty Learning Technologist in Technology.

http://www.tech.plymouth.ac.uk/learntech/captivate/perception_tensile_test_demo_demo/perception_tensile_test_demo_demo.htm

Examples of Learning Technology Projects

Here are examples of Learning Technology Projects from across the University to illustrate how learning can be enhanced by technology.