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A number of University of Plymouth projects (the 3 OER projects, Pineapple and Building Capacity) will be presenting at this event. JISC RSC South West Project Expo Event 2011 Taunton Rugby Club, 6th April 2011 -PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE- JISC is at the heart of UK Further and Higher education, driving the innovative use of technology to support the sector’s activity and its competitiveness globally. The sustained, managed and strategic nature of our activities means the resulting impacts far outweigh the initial investment. All our successes and achievements are realised as a direct result of our ability to drive innovation within the sector through research and development. Put simply, UK academia would not enjoy its worldwide recognition for excellence without JISC. Within the South West, JISC have funded a plethora of Innovative projects in a multiplicity of diverse areas, ranging from Business and Community Engagement to Improving the sustainability and environmental credentials of Institutional Information Communication Technology. The expertise gleaned from these experiences is invaluable; Such insights often prevent other Institutions making expensive and demoralising mistakes when they undertake similar ventures, and also serve to inspire other prospective innovations. The JISC Regional Support Centre South West will therefore be presenting a major "expo" event on the 6thApril, where project teams from around the region will disseminate on their outputs and experiences.  Additionally, valuable networking opportunities will be incorporated, allowing delegates to mix with project and JISC staff. There will be 3 strands of activity running concurrently on the day: Teaching and Learning/Research Open Educational Resources Partnerships The programme for the event, along with short abstracts, is now available .  There are a few blanks, but  wanted to get this out ASAP so you could see the range and diversity of projects being expounded upon.  The event will take place at Taunton Rugby Club on the 6th April.  Online booking is available now; You will just need to make a general booking at this juncture, and be asked to select session choices in due course.  In the meantime, if you have any queries about the event, please contact Daniel McCaffrey, eLearning Adviser-Higher Education at JISC Regional Support Centre South West:danmccafrey@rsc-south-west.ac.uk Attendance at the event is £50 all day. You can book online now at: http://www.rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=14 Please come along and allow your Institution to benefit from the JISC funded experiences of others.

As Quincy Jones once remarked, "I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain’t that the truth." That said, Edu-fun Friday is a series devoted to adding some humor to the lives of teachers who visit this blog. After all, there’s nothing better than ending the week on a positive note! Plus, do we have the best topics to provide us with some comic relief or what? I don’t know about you, but during my first week back in the jungle, I’ve seen more hashtag responses to questions than ever before! I have to admit they’ve been pretty #creative and #hilarious. I guess it’s a just a #realitycheck that #digitalnativesruletheworld. Here’s to a most excellent year! You have the power to make it the best one ever—for you and your students—so let the good times roll! #inspire #motivate #succeed

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We are pleased to announce the next Annual Technology Enhanced Learning Showcase Day will be taking place on the 6th July 2011. This is a day for you to discover good and innovative practice in the area of TEL which is taking place across the institution! Come and learn what your peers are doing, what they would have done differently and what they hope to do in the future and hear the student voice describing what they want as part of their Plymouth learning experience! Please visit the TEL Showcase Website for more information or to register for the event! If you have used technology to enhance your teaching we would love to hear about it so please email us! Whether you are happy to be a presenter at the TEL Showcase Day or be featured in our showcase website, we need to hear about the work you are doing so that we can all benefit from a community of practice and promote the University’s excellence in this field! Please also email us your ideas for what the Showcase Day should include and what you would like to take away from the day.

If you want an update on the University’s Open Educational Resources projects the project teams have just produced  a newsletter detailing activity and progress. Download the University of Plymouth’s OER Newsletter

This is the last chance to register interest in presenting at this event! If you have used technology to enhance teaching and would like to share your experiences with others at this event please email a paragraph about the work you have been doing to tel@plymouth.ac.uk by next Wednesday 15th June, so we can include it in the programme! Whether skeptic about use of technology in education, novice or expert, we hope everyone will come, be involved and be inspired by the innovative practice in the area of TEL taking place across the institution. This day will provide: Practitioner Experiences Practical Workshops Student Views and Expectations Details of Latest Developments and Available Tools Networking Opportunities Registration is required and free to staff. To register or for more information please visit http://www2.plymouth.ac.uk/telshowcase/

Bring back tech-y to a school near you with the Geeky Girl’s greatest hits list from Summer 2014. That’s right! This collection of blog posts includes some super cool edtech tools that are sure to add some engagement to classroom lessons, activities, projects and presentations. From web tools to infographics to app smashing ideas, there’s something for everyone regardless of your skill or comfort level! Be sure to hover over the interactive image below to reveal the "hotspots" containing 16 must-have digital resources. Your new tech crush is just a few clicks away! Click here to view a larger version of this interactive image. And one more thing: I created this interactive image with ThingLink. If you’re not familiar with this teaching and learning gem, then you don’t know what you’re missing. Check out a recent article featured in the Huffington Post highlighting the power of this tool in the educational setting here!

We need to make some urgent updates to our e-portfolio system PebblePad, which will require a short interruption to the service on Wednesday afternoon, the 12th of October from 2pm when e-portfolio.plymouth.ac.uk will not be available. We hope to resume service as soon as possible the same day however this may take a few hours. We are sorry for any inconvenience; if you have a session planned that is due to involve the e-portfolio system on Wednesday afternoon that can not be postponed please let us know urgently by emailing TEL@plymouth.ac.uk

A couple of queries about using Turnitin land in my inbox regularly so I thought a couple of short guides might be in order. The first is a reminder of how to set Turnitin assignments so that they are checked for originality against the Web and journals but not submitted to the Turnitin database. This is particularly useful for formative work with students, but it is also useful to be able to set this option when student work may contain sensitive or confidential information. Setting submission to Turnitin repository to off. The second guide covers managing the views you have of content matches in the originality reports. Whilst it is often the case that you only need to see the initial list of matching sources, sometimes, for example if there appears to be only one match, you may wish to ignore that match to view underlying sources. This is easy to do and can be done for single or multiple sources. Choosing to ignore matching sources.