Public Engagement Coastal Engineering Website

This website was created by Rebecca Vickerstaff (formerly Allen) Faculty of Technology Learning Technologist to target A Level students and to highlight the work within Coastal Engineering and to gain future students and research interest. The site itself was created in Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Dreamweaver and benefits from the use of templates, library items and breadcrumbs to make navigation easier. The site has now been handed over to the relevant academics who will be populating it fully in due course.

Public Engagement Coastal Engineering Website

IT Induction online session

SSB Specialist IT Team (Pauline Framingham, Liz Thomson, Faculty Learning Technologists Rob Giles and Jackie Palmer) produced this online IT induction session to introduce new students to the University of Plymouth's computing system. It is available as an online resource on the web at www.ssb.plymouth.ac.uk/itinduction
It includes an introduction to the University of Plymouth desktop, software and student portal including demonstrations.

Mentorship update 2008

Produced by Stephen Hodge & Samantha Barrington (HSW web developer)

Whilst HSW students are on placement they work alongside Mentors approved by the Strategic Health Authority to make sure the students aren't doing anything outrageously wrong etc. The idea behind the Mentorship Update is an annual update for Mentors in the field to ensure they are kept update with what the students are being taught and likewise.

This project is sent out to mentors as an Interactive CD however hopefully this will be the last year of it in a CD format. Since it should really be in an online format... I've written enough I'll let the pictures and the resource do the talking:







Online resource, UOP Login needed.

This has been my first project as a LT so would appreciate any feedback.

Victorian and Modernist Studies E-Resource

Online Resource for Victorian and Modernist Studies.
Created by Becky Freeman - Faculty of Arts

A resources site created within the English Community site pages, available to all students in the School of Humanities. The site consists of categories within the areas of Victorian and modernism resources, and links to e-resources both within the UOP and on websites and databases.
View the resource

The Plymouth Student Scientist e-journal

Dr Karen Gresty, Dr Ken Kingston, Dr Tim Auburn, Andrew Edwards

This project established an online journal to showcase high class undergraduate research work from the Faculty of Science. As well as providing a platform for publishing and disseminating student research, the journal also aims to offer resources to both students and staff that can utilize content to enhance the pedagogic use of research in teaching and learning.
The journal was created using Open Journal Systems, open source software made freely available to journals worldwide for the purpose of making open access publishing a viable option.
Current features of the journal include:
High quality assessed final year student research projects and literature reviews
Special interest articles maximising the flexibility offered by an electronic journal, such as poster presentations
Links to useful student resources to enhance the learning experience
An online feedback facility to inform evaluation of the journal as a teaching and learning resource
Click here to access The Plymouth Student Scientist website

Collision Simulation Project

By Rob Giles for Maggie Hemsworth & Penny Howard Law & Social Science Litigation Module

This project was designed to help students understand the nature of evidence simulation as used in real life scenarios. I decided that an animated 3D representation of the various witness descriptions of the described event would be the most appropriate way to illustrate the process and how I would have depicted the reconstruction for a real life situation. The application was built using Macromedia Flash but the animation was produced using 3D construction software. The resulting application can illustrate and tie together various witness descriptions of the events and help a jury visualise the events effectively. I can also assist the module by being called in as an expert witness for the student's cross-examination.

http://study.plymouth.ac.uk/Module/LAWP5000%20AYAU%2008/LectureNotesAndPresentations/Civil%20Litigation/Collision%20Simulation.aspx

Making Multi-national Connections; Students debate across Europe's national borders

Dr Mark Wise Liz Thomson + SSB Specialist IT Team (Pauline Framingham, Liz Thomson, Faculty Learning Technologists Rob Giles and Jackie Palmer.)

This project uses the internet and computerised translation tools to extend classroom debates beyond students confined to the Plymouth campus out to others across Europe. The pilot debate about the nature of a `European Identity’ involves 100 students from different countries including the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and the Czech Republic.

Website including translation tools http://facultyj.hs.plym.ac.uk/eu