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Anna ArmstrongCentre for Professional Learning & Development
Ten ways to spice up your NOW learning room
Anna Armstrong
Technology Learning and Development Adviser
Centre for Professional Learning and Development (CPLD)
Logistics
• Toilets
• Drinks and Refreshments
• Fire Alarms
• Questioning Policy
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By the end of the course you should be able to:
• Make your NOW learning room a hub for all information and resources for your module
• Enhance your face-to-face sessions with videos, topical subjects and competitions, dates, definitions and events
• Have your learning room automatically updated by linking to live feeds from the internet
• Provide a rich source of new information, wider reading, activities and learning resources
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http://now.ntu.ac.uk
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Imagine…
10 Ways to Spice up your NOW Learning Room
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Discover the Ten Tips…
• In groups of two or three look at the learning room page Ten Ways to Spice up your NOW Learning Room (under your Student tab).
• What do you like/dislike about the learning room, from a student perspective?
• How many new ideas can you find?
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Practise in your Sandbox Module
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Colour code your learning room
Why?• Give your learning room a
distinctive appearance• Have an agreed house style
with other related modules• Highlight important
information
How?• Edit the homepage layout• Change the colours of the
widget headings / titles
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Colour code your learning room1
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Learning room layout
• Widget layout is based on standard template (uneditable)
• Create a new template (editable)
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Find copyright-free images
Pose a question/competition/incentive
Why?• Question of the week• Create interest• Brighten up learning room• Raise awareness• Increase engagement with the
learning room• Link to more information• Teaser before lecture• Share your photos• Answer revealed in lecture• Test knowledge• Spark discussion• Revision of difficult concept
How?• Create NOW widget• Add an image, text or link to it• Add widget to your learning
room page
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Provide live topical news updates
Why?• Provide topical content
automatically updated• Wider reading• Create interest in the topic
How?• Get an RSS feed from website
of your choice• Convert to code suitable for
NOW• Add to a new widget in NOW
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1• Create a new widget in NOW
2• Find a relevant RSS feed link. Copy it.
3• Paste into the Feed code builder and copy code
4• Paste code into NOW widget in HTML mode
5• Add the widget to your NOW learning room
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Open new tabs and go to • tinyurl.com/makecode• www.guardian.co.uk
Definitions/Glossary
Why?• Revision• Explain commonly
misunderstood terms• Exam rubric terminology
How?• Use NOW’s Glossary tool
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Provide automatically updated links to current and topical reading
Why?• New material on each visit• Topical content• Wider reading• Create interest in the subject
area• You don’t have to provide the
information
How?• Get a feed from Twitter• Create a new widget in NOW• Add Twitter feed into widget
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Twitter in Education8
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Automatically updated links and reading
www.twitter.com
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Find a good quality source of information8
• Using Twitter, find an individual or organisation who regularly tweets on your subject of interest
• Reflect on the quality and relevance of their contributions, for your learners
• Look at the people they follow, and find another quality source of information
• Identify a person/organisation you found which could be useful for your learners, and share this with the group
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1• Use Firefox web browser
2• Turn on a customisable home page in NOW
3• Create a new widget in NOW
4• Go to twitter.com, to find the information you need
(code). Copy and paste the code into the NOW widget.
5• Add the widget to your NOW learning room
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Welcome to the Module or Programme
Why?• Orientate students with the
learning room• Explain how you will be using NOW• Highlight documents in the
Content area
How?• Use News to create a welcome
message• Add a picture and a link to module
handbook/other contentOr• Create a video welcome message
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Publicise forthcoming events/dates
Why?• Information• Keep students up to date• Reminders• Guest lectures• Coursework deadlines• Highlight relevant events• Exam board dates• Engagement with learning room• Provide interest and links to further
information
How?• Use NOW’s Events widget
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Which are your three favourite tips??
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http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/NzI1NDY0Njk5
Further Support and Guidance
• Self help resources: NOW Community learning room
• Help desk support for immediate issues: [email protected], ext 86030
• Staff development: [email protected]
• Curriculum development: Centre for Academic Development and Quality
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