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Charged up for 2009 - at Cardonald CollegeThis case study is based on an interview with Steve Bishop, IT Helpdesk Manager at Cardonald College. At Cardonald they've been using a very clever remote mouse/media control (the MX Air from Logitech) which can be charged for up to a week at a time and has a range which should work in large classrooms. They are in the process of rolling this technology out to departments across the college. Migrating to Virtual ServersIn this audio case study, Mark Clark talks to Martin Forte of Cardonald College on his experiences of migrating the college's critical systems onto virtual servers. This audio recording contains some images that will be displayed by your player. Collaborative Course Design ProjectCollaborative Course Design describes the concept of planning the curriculum with a holistic approach to teaching strategies and the design of learning experiences, taking a consistent approach to the use of learning technologies across the whole course. Cardonald College was involved in the pilot phase of this RSC initiative. The proposal at Cardonald College was to work with the teaching team in the Social Care department. The team was interested implementing eAssessment within their curriculum area and in particular exploring the possibilities of on line case study type assessment. Read the CCD evaluation report ..... Using Technology to Reflect on Work Experience PlacementsThis podcast features a discussion with Ian Jenkins Senior Lecturer at Cardonald College. Ian talks about how he incorporates both publishing software (Microsoft Publisher) and presentation software (Microsoft PowerPoint) into his Learning for Work course. Second year students are asked to accumulate a range of material whilst on work experience placements and, ultimately, combine them purposefully to create presentations which will be delivered to first year students on the work placements they have undertaken. Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Develop Literacy, Communication and Research Skills John Archibald, Support for Learning Tutor at Cardonald College has been working with the students to create a Blog as an alternative to more traditional newsletters. This is a Web 2.0 tool which can be used to create written information that can immediately be viewed as a web page. The online editing feature on Blogs allows text to be added, formatted and web pages to be created very easily without the author having any experience of developing web content. Using WIKIs with Travel & Tourism studentsKenny Park has been using WIKIs with travel & tourism students for both learning about travel geography and planning study visits. In this podcast Grainne Hamilton RSC eAssessment Advisor talks to Kenny about how he has been using WIKI software to engage his students. WIKIs are being used by students for research, planning, collaborative work and assessment. Digital Convergence Programme at Cardonald College The Digital Convergence Programme (DCP), is run by Cardonald College, Glasgow, in partnership with the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). It is a training initiative for journalists, photographers, PRs and others involved or interested in the media. The case study has a complimentary audio interview made by the JISC Regional Support Centre Scotland in discussion with Kathleen Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Dario Sinforiani, Senior Lecturer in Television within the School of Digital Media. |