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Previous Learning & Teaching fellwoships

2004-05

Initiation and development of learning, information sharing, resourcing and programme monitoring through learn.gold in the secondary PGCE programme.
- Jeff Adams (Educational Studies)

This project aims to develop a learn.gold site as an ideal place for online discussion and learning in the context of a Secondary PGCE programme, where students are on placements, making fullest use of the communication tools available, in particular the forums. It is envisaged to transfer existing resources, develop and implement new ones and generally strive to make this a one-stop area for receiving and posting information.

The development of a web-based Caribbean Studies virtual learning environment.
- Joan Anim-Addo (English and Comparative Literature)

The aim of this project is to “bring the Caribbean into the classroom”. Utilising the college VLE a multimedia resource site will be created, to encourage active student engagement by uploading images, video and sound files as well as posting relevant links and important sources (journal articles, essay extracts). Message boards (forums) will be used to encourage collaborative learning and thinking.

Platform for ECL use of Learn.Gold and other VLE resources.
- Alcuin Blamires (English and Comparative Literature)

This project will explore electronic resources (commercial and open source) for effective student-centred, interactive learning of quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis methods at first and second year undergraduate and MA level. It will also develop a learning and teaching databank of appropriate quantitative and qualitative datasets, based on empirical research undertaken within the Department and externally, that can be sued by students. We will also develop interactive learning and teaching resources for statistical components of the ESRC-RT recognised MA Social Research (which all MPhil/PhD students also have to take) and for relevant undergraduate social statistics courses components.

Workbooks and the VLE - to facilitate student learning and practice.
- Rebecca Cassidy & Sophie Day (Anthropology)

To extend the College VLE beyond its use as a mere information repository by developing it for formative course work through an online workbook. The workbook will have two elements, an individual record of study and course exercises, which thus will also break down the standard coursework for these courses.

Musicianship Support Online Resource.
- Roger Cawkwell (PACE)

The CELT fellowship will be used to develop an online study resource containing an introduction to musicianship topics, drawing on consultation with as many PACE musicianship tutors as possible to create an approach which ideally represents and supports all their various teaching styles. An important developmental aspect is to represent 'diversity within unity', and it is hoped that the end resource will reflect positively the collected feedback.

Development and implementation of e-forums for students and Practice Assessors for use during practice placements.
- Lee Clarke (PACE)

This project aims to support students on the MA in Social Work, by building and maintaining e-learning communities on learn.gold. The emphasis is on enhanced collaboration and communication between students and their practice assessors during the practice placement periods, as well as enabling students supporting each other by sharing experiences easily, through the use of forums, and collaborative activities.

Using the college virtual learning environment to deliver teaching and learning of a psychology experiment generating package (e-prime).
- Jan de Fockert Professor Linda Pring (Psychology)

To develop a site within the college VLE learn.gold to teach the use of a psychology experiment generating package (e-prime). The site will be a dedicated area to deliver support of this key electronic psychology research tool, including a database of e-prime experiments for reference and a database of experimental material. In addition, the project will encourage the use of a reflective journal and possibly discussion forums to encourage deeper learning, as well as to collect and archive invaluable student feedback.

The creation of an on-line, interactive archive of Performance Research Forum events to be accessed via e.g. Learn.gold.
- Anna Furse (Theatre and Performance)

Anna will build on her last CELT fellowship and aims to develop and catalogue an archive of live performance video clips for demonstration and lecturing purposes on learn.gold. The developed materials will also be available offline and as transcripts. Performances will be filmed and edited digitally, compressed and uploaded onto learn.gold by Anna. The project will be evaluated by gathering qualitative feedback from students through the use of discussion forums.

Publishing urban photography in digital media.
- Paul Halliday (CUCR)

The project expects to deliver a theoretical paper on the impact of digital media on popular photography and visual urban sociology with particular reference to ethnographic research methodology. It will also involve the development of a platform independent PDF based CD ROM based on a London photographic project, the training of departmental lecturers and researchers around using digital photography and to develop the use of learn.gold for the MA Photography and Urban Cultures.

English Language Learning and Online Support.
- Stella Harvey (Centre for English Language and Academic Writing)

Stella’s project aims to extend the already existing real.gold site by developing materials relevant to students on a range of humanities courses at Goldsmiths. These will include vocabulary building exercises, reading comprehension exercises, coherence of argument exercises etc. It will also develop and contain online grammar practice materials and language development materials. The site’s exercises will be available to anyone within Goldsmiths College.

Adopting an e-book as course set text.
- Damien Keown (History)

Damien’s project aims to pilot the changeover from conventional printed sources to an e-book as the set text for one of his courses in the History Department. The project will deliver a report summarising the experience of the changeover for students and staff; a selection of computer assisted self-assessment tests; and the publication of an article based on the relevant research. The project will be evaluated through two student questionnaires as well as in-depth case studies.

'Politics and Rhetoric' interactive multimedia learning resource.
- James Martin (Politics)

This project aims to develop a multimedia learning resource to support the learning requirements of students on an undergraduate course unit “Politics and Rhetoric”. It will entail the creation of a database of materials including video, audio and text files of examples of political rhetoric with relevant metadata. Using Flash, these will be employed to demonstrate rhetoric at work, with interactive annotations, commentary, and analysis. This will encourage students to learn about and practice identification and analysis of political rhetoric.

Anatomy of a film production.
- Gerry McCulloch (Media and Communications)

This project aims to create a Learning and Teaching resource for practice courses in filmmaking. The idea is to construct an interactive anatomy of a Goldsmiths film, while the production is itself unfolding. It will involve the convergence of audio-visual, web, CD ROM and DVD material to be used in the classroom. A DVD will be produced and some of the material will be made accessible via the College VLE.

Developing the secondary flexible PGCE course online.
- Margaret Pitfield (Educational Studies)

The team wants to familiarise themselves with learn.gold and achieve a collaborative development of sites within the VLE to support recently introduced flexible PGCE courses in Design and Technology, English, Languages and Science. An important aspect is to develop and implement best practice in structuring the sites, to define policy for management and use, and to train students and school-based mentors in making effective use of the sites.

Teaching and Learning Algorithms with Creation.
- Ida Pu (Computing)

Ida’s project will enhance the creative teaching and learning of Algorithms by extending the production of online resources to support the Algorithms undergraduate course module. These will include enriched interactive features as well as uploaded lecture notes, assignments, exercises, lab sheets and study guides. Java programming language and other standard software packages will be used in the implementation of these.

Online learning with Max/MSP and Jitter.
- Michael Young (Music)

Michael plans to create a web-based learning resource to teach the functionality of Max/MSP, a software that allows for development of creative applications, to students in the BMus in Music and BMus in Popular Music Studies. This learning resource will include online tutorials, self-assessment test, a catalogue of sample work and the creation of a trouble shooter. Initially, student needs will be identified by short questionnaires and later, the EMS Studio forum will be utilised to evaluate the effectiveness of the project.

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