Resources from past events
Listening to the LMS: Using the Learning Management System with the JAWS screen reader
Majella Knobel and Bronwyn Disseldorp
Description: The Learning Environments LMS Academic Support team recently began a joint project with the Disability Liaison Unit to examine the accessibility of the Learning Management System and develop advice and support for students and staff. The starting point for the project has been accessibility for students with low vision using screen readers.
This session describes obstacles experienced by students using screen reading software and the strategies to overcome some of the challenges.
When: Wednesday 29th October 11am-12pm
Where: LMS Training Studio, G17 Elisabeth Murdoch Building
Lunch time forums
Helping students get there with AIRport.
Wednesday 6th May, 12-1pm, LMS training studio (ground floor, Elisabeth Murdoch building)
Presenter: Damian Sweeney and Dr Jennifer Lee.
Description: Save time by linking your students to AIRport, the Academic Interactive Resources portal. AIRport is an online resource filled with interactive activities and videos for undergraduate and graduate coursework students. Why reinvent the wheel when you can help students build writing skills, prepare for assessment, and tackle the difference between plagiarism and paraphrasing through AIRport? Discipline-specific resources for Commerce, Engineering, Environments, Science and BioMedicine are particularly useful for students in a new discipline area or studying breadth subjects. Find out how you can effectively embed AIRport resources within your LMS subject to support student learning.
- Take the staff tour to see some of the highlights of AIRport.
- AIRport Presentation
Campus LX Wiki tool: fostering collaborative knowledge building networks within the university classroom
Thursday July 10th, 1-2pm, LMS training studio (ground floor, Elisabeth Murdoch building)
Web 2.0 technologies including blogs, wikis, RSS, social bookmarking and a host of new and emerging applications are gaining popularity globally in classrooms at all levels of education. Such technologies claim to offer new and improved ways of fostering interaction, community building, content creation and modification and knowledge building for learning. This seminar reports on an Action Research project that integrates Campus LX wiki technologies into a multidisciplinary pre-service teacher education course as a way of fostering collaborative knowledge building networks within the university classroom and seeks to serve as a model of an authentic way of integrating technology into curriculum in schools. The seminar will highlight the learning potential inherent in the technologies to foster purposeful knowledge building networks using the voices of participants (lecturers and students) immersed in the project
- Lectopia recording of presentation given by Nicky Carr.
Media enrichment in the LMS
Monday 26th May, 1-2pm, LMS training studio (ground floor, Elisabeth Murdoch building)
This forum focuses on the inclusion of multimedia within subjects and communities to enhance the student experience and make use of resources available at the University of Melbourne. Topics include Lectopia, Readings Online, Audio and Video resources (broadcast recordings of music, spoken word and video), searching for resources to include using SuperSearch and the Digital Repository, and the Reborn Digital service.
- Reborn Digital presentation [PPT 2.73MB 8 pages] given by Joe Arthur (Records Services).
- Digital Repository presentation [PPT 800kb 11 pages] given by Andrew Veal (Collection Access).
- Handout [PDF 383kb 6 pages] for creating Digital Repository links in LMS.
- Lectopia home page at UoM.
Keeping your LMS subject legal
Friday 23rd May, 1-2pm, LMS training studio (ground floor, Elisabeth Murdoch building)
Using the LMS and unsure what your copyright obligations are? This session will discuss the common copyright issues that arise when using the LMS and ways to ensure that your subject stays legal.
Education theory behind blogs and podcasts
Monday 5th May, 1-2pm, LMS training studio (ground floor, Elisabeth Murdoch building)
This session reviews the contribution of blogging and video-podcasts, framed through a theory of learning, in science education. Recent policy initiatives, internationally, have drawn attention to the need to engage students more deeply with models of scientific reasoning. Video-podcasting and blogging have been used in an attempt to address these pedagogical concerns in a university level degree course. In this session, the contributions to the learning experiences will be analysed, in particular, the ways they enhanced or impeded the students learning experiences.
- Lectopia presentation given by Christine Redman (Melbourne Graduate School of Education).