Workshops

I am available to run a wide range of sessions and workshops. Any of the following can be adapted and I'm always happy to devise new programs to suit your needs.




 

Digital storytelling

• Background to digital storytelling
• Sample story
• Ingredients
• Uses in education
• Hands on development with detailed guide
• Show and tell

Social media and networking in education

• Introductions and overview
• What are social networks?
• Your context/ your networks - What rules/boundaries exist? Who sets these? What is the purpose? How do people join?
• Underlying concepts and shifts in thinking
• The world is changing
• Issues - discussion
• Overview of available technologies
• Hands on exploration

Using Facebook in education

• Introductions and overview
• What are social networks?
• Your context/ your networks
• Successful elements
• Groups vs Pages vs News feeds
• Setting up a Group
• Privacy and access
• User owned and designed 'rules' around engagement
• Educational uses and examples

Digital images in education

• Types of images
• Don't reinvent the wheel!
• Creative Commons and FlickR - what's out there?
• Attributions and acknowledgement
• Linking and embedding
• Uploading and basic editing
• Hands on

Audio in education - recording and editing

• Uses in education
• The basics of sound
• Voicethread
• Audacity (or other) for simple recording/editing
• Embedding, storing and uploading
• Podcasts vs recordings
• Hands on

Designing for learner-centred engagement

• Who ARE your learners?
• What is the context?
• The elements of how we learn
• Moving from face-to-face to blended to online without losing the essence of good practice
• Its all about choice?
• Push vs conversation and engagement
• But I don't have time!