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Previous Learning Technology fellowships

2002-03

Performance and Multimedia: Towards an Undergraduate and Postgraduate Pedagogy
- Ajaykumar (Theatre and Performance)

Students will develop their own IT skills base to explore multimedia as a tool for performance such as last year's Instant Hamlet and interactive desktop flower projects. This year, the project will include new course options with regard to 'performance and mutlimedia' at both undergraduate level and in the M.A. Perfomance programme. It will also oversee a departmental seminar to highlight opportunities for using learning technology and a workshop/case study for PALENTINE, disseminating examples of practice of using learning technology and multimedia with students.

Supported Self-Study via the Web for Trainee Teachers of Community Languages
- Jim Anderson (Educational Studies)

Students will have access to a range of online resources via a user-friendly website. These web resources, which include materials in non-Roman fonts for Arabic, Punjabi and Mandarin Chinese, are intended to support students in developing independent study within the modular PGCE in Community Languages. The resources will cover the following: methodology, materials and tasks, teaching resources, web links, a showcase of student projects, and course information.

Web-Based Learning Resources for English Courses
- Lucia Boldrini and Derval Tubridy (English and Comparative Literature)

A selection of web pages will provide a framework through which students are able to access study and research materials such as databases, images, essays and websites etc. Two sample courses will be used as a basis for the project: Studies in Word and Image, an interdisciplinary course that uses visual material and Literature in Question, a new interdisciplinary course to be introduced in Spetember 2003. In addition, students will be able to communicate via an online discussion board and will keep a log/journal of their own activities for the courses.

Privacy in Public- P.R.S., a System that Enables/Supports Learning. Allowing Anonymity during Student Interaction
- Martin Conreen (Design)

The Personal Response System allows users to offer their feedback anonymously and instantly by selecting multiple-choice options via their own personal hand-held transmitter, which is connected to a central receiver. The group results can then be displayed graphically via a computer/data projector. This system will be incorporated into a set of lectures especially written to be used with P.R.S. Guidance notes will be created for users and a case study will be undertaken to evaluate the system's advantages and disadvantages while considering its suitability for different levels of use.

Java Website
- Sebastian Danicic (Department of Computing)

This project will create a fully integrated website for first-year students studying An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in Java. The interactive nature of the website will complement the subject guide already available. Both will provide a total and flexible environment for learning object oriented programming in Java. The website will contain full navigation, all the examples of the study guide in a downloadable format, exercises with solutions, multiple-choice interactive exercies, a glossary of Java terms and links to past exam papers.

Documentary M.A. Website
- Tony Dowmunt (Media and Communications)

This website will provide an online focus whereby current students can communicate with each other, the course convenor, past/future students and others in the documentary making community worldwide, such as other research centres and international festivals. Students will have access to bulletin boards, email address lists etc. as well as showcases of students' best practice and an up-to-date version of the course handbook, which will include the course timetable, bibliography and course descriptions.

Conversion of Final Year Option on 'Anomalistic Psychology' to make Full Use of Learning Technology
- Christopher French (Psychology)

The current research unit website for the optional Year 3 module, Anomalistic Psychology, will be expanded to encourage its use as a learning resource. It will house all lectures in PowerPoint form and will include images, video clips and sound files as well as a specialised video library. Alongside the redevelopment of the website, the main emphasis of the course will shift so that current tutorial arrangements will be replaced with sessions aimed at training students to critically evaluate different sources of information/evidence (including web-based resources).

Action Replay: Enhancing Learning Experience through Portable Technological Delivery Systems
- Sean Hall (Design)

The experience of traditional teaching will be challenged by altering the format of delivery through the employment of portable technological delivery systems such as Audio Tour Guides (ATGs), Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) or mobile phones, to provide comment on a series of design objects, images, texts and locations. This will result in the creation of two virtual lecture tours for students. The first will treat the lecture theatre itself as museum of design in the sense that objects, images and texts may be displayed in it and commented upon. The second will treat the city as museum of design and will engage with the culture of consumerism as it its embodied in spatial contexts.

In Tune with Technology: Popular Music Studies Learning Support
- Jill Halstead (Music)

In light of the proposed new BMus in Popular Music Studies (intended 2004/5), this project seeks to initiate a new approach to the learning and teaching of popular music for both staff and students. This will be achieved with the creation of a sample CD ROM of learning support materials for the proposed new BMus courses. The CD will provide a particularly useful rsource for courses with a technical or practical component (such as Technology as Creative Resource, Improvisation, Commercial Music Arranging and The Language of Jazz). It will also encourage the development of new methods of teaching popular music courses more in tune with the technological core of the discipline.

SRALT - Social Research and Learning Technology
- Mary Claire Halvorson (PACE)

The principal aim of this project is to equip learners to develop a blend of technological and traditional research strategies. This will be carried out by means of a learning environment website, which will provide students with relevant materials about the processes of social research online. It will support learners in PACE and across the range of College disciplines which involve social and cultural studies. Following from this, evaluation templates will be developed as a tool of good practice.

Virtual Interactive Library Introduction Tour
- Sally Houston (Library)

A web-based induction for staff and students will provide greater flexibility to learn and will make the induction programme's content more relevant to specific subjects and to student needs and capabilities. The tour will deliver comprehensive yet customisable content which covers orientation, procedures and resources. It will include practical basic tutorials on using the library catalogue and electronic databases and will allow for students with special needs such as dyslexia.

Web-Based Access to Computer Aided Designing and Manufacturing
- Tony Lawler (Design)

Continuing the establishment of a centre of excellence in CAD/CAM, this project will allow students and staff to have access to Computer Aided Designing and Manufacturing software such as Prodesktop and ArtCAM among others. A website will be created to provide a structured environment for accessing teaching materials and software user guides. This will contribute to maximising exisitng investments in equipment, training and expertise.

Goldsmiths Online Language Development (GOLD)
- Karen Nicholls (English Language Unit)

Initiated in last year's CELT Fellowship project, the GOLD website provides ELU students with the opportunity to develop their English language skills through self-access. This year the listening and note-taking practice resources will be expanded to incorporate an additional academic subject. There will also be further development of the writing resource to include more creative writing styles which are important in various departments as well as interactive practice of common areas of language weakness. Records of student progress will be saved to a database for further analysis.

EMS Listen
- Katharine Norman (Music)

Providing an online resource aimed directly at advanced undergraduate/Masters level study, this web-based resource for Electronic Music Studios courses is designed to introduce the learner to the wide variety of work and aesthetic approaches current in digital music and sound art. It will create a forum that invites and encourages the acquisition of critical skills and sensibility and facilitates self-managed learning for students. The resources will consist of interactive course and research materials, which specifically feed into the existing M.Mus Composition (studio pathway) modules such as Issues in Electroacoustic and Computer Music and Soundscape and Listening.

Use of Digital Resources for Specialist Postgraduate Provision, Teaching Programme Enhancement and Archiving of Image Resources
- Stephen Nugent (Anthropology)

The M.A. in Visual Anthropology forms the basis for the initiative to create archiving facilities for still and moving images. Postgraduate students will have the opportunity to acquire transferable production skills informed by clear academic and intellectual goals so that they will be able to take responsibility for creating their own films. To facilitate this process, the project will oversee the preparation of self-help tutorial guides for students using editing equipment in the production of ethnographic films. A support network will also be established across departmental boundaries.

The Development of a Semi-Automatically Scrutinised/Supervised Virtual Environment for Student-Managed Learning
- Marian Ursu (Department of Computing)

This project aims to develop a web-based information exchange software system which will provide a virtual environment that aims to enhance and encourage: students' participation in the learning process; students' critical evaluation of published knowledge; the continuity of the learning process; the exploration of new topics and the provision of up-to-date relevant information; and collaboration in the learning process. This will lead to better information dissemination as well as closer interaction and involvement among students as they will have continual access to resources, which a classroom-based environment alone cannot provide.

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