turtle's adventures: June 2015

The learning sequence that I decided to use was to provide a face-to-face and on-line information session for the nursing students who are about to attend an Outward Bound Nursing Studies aboard in Singapore in June 2015.

I will be using the TPACK framework to explain my rational for my choice of content, pedagogy and the selection of technology to be used for this presentation.

The audience consist of:

· 3 students in Rockhampton (where the presentation will be filmed) – unfortunately 2 students couldn’t attend as they were on clinical placement.

· 1 student at Mackay Campus – who could not attend as above.

· 1 student via phone link-up from Singapore.

· 1 student via phone link-up in Melbourne.

· 3 students via video conferencing at Noosa CQU Campus.

· CIS representative via Skype from Vietnam.

· International Co-ordinator from Rockhampton Campus.

I tried to do the Google Excel – I could download the document but could not insert the information when online. My computer is quite old and maybe it might have been a different story if I was at work. Therefore, I have uploaded the excel document here.

Content:

The content of this presentation consist of the following:

Content	Rationale
Welcome	To introduce the students who I am and what the presentation is about and the rationale for including additional information.
General Information about Singapore	To orientate the students and their significant others to the country & to the following information about their trip:
General Information	· Laws of the Country: to avoid students getting fined or arrested; what is expected from them. · Information about the Australian High Commission. · Information about: Education System Health System Food CIS rep Ryan Thompson Etiquette Tips Ramadan
Details concerning the Trip	Our Group Where are we staying Itinerary with emphasis on Changi General Hospital & Dr Lina Ma from the Lions Home for the Elders.
Closing Information	What to Bring on the Trip Thank you Gifts Ways to keep in Touch Airport departure Information

Pedagogy

Personally, I believe that pedagogy is about leading students to a place where they can learn for themselves. It is about creating environments and situations where people can draw out from within themselves, and hone their abilities they already have, to create their own knowledge, interpret the world in their own unique ways, and ultimately realise their full potential as human beings. As a lecturer I like to pose challenges, ask the right questions and present relevant problems for learners to explore, answer and solve.

This outward bound trip to Singapore is about the nursing students to gain knowledge and skill in caring for people from a culture different to their own. Transferable nursing concepts will be explored and the students will experience and observe the whole health system in Singapore. The objective for the visit to Changi General Hospital is to disprove the myth that other countries are not as advanced as Australia within their Health Care System.

Effective pedagogical practice promotes the wellbeing of students, lecturers and the university community. This is achieved by incorporating a variety of teaching strategies that support intellectual engagement, connectedness to the wider world, supportive classroom environments, and recognition of difference. Therefore, my job as a lecturer is to scaffold the students learning to enable them to become independent learners. This scaffolding of this learning experience has been achieved in the following ways:

· The students need to obtain a fundamental knowledge about the country Singapore, its laws, customs and cultural differences. This enables the students to appreciate the differences between Australia and Singapore.

· For learning to occur in and before leaving Australia, I believe that you have to reduce any anxiety about the trip and therefore the students need to know the trip is well organised and that they are in safe hands. Their classroom will be a lived experience in Singapore and therefore the students require a supportive clinical facilitator.

· In order for the students to be prepared for the trip to Singapore they need to know what to bring, what will happen at the airport etc.

· Assessment of the learning experience within this learning environment will involve the lecturer observing whether the students come prepared as per their induction session information. In addition, as part of my PhD I will be conducting a pilot study on the students experience called “Home and Away” about their learning outcomes, experience and how prepare they were for this trip.

Technology

The learning experience for this induction session on the student’s trip to Singapore used a variety of technology to support the student’s acquirement of knowledge.

The best use of technology to support the above learning experience was to design and deliver a PowerPoint Presentation which will support a live oral presentation that conducted via ISL to other campuses and be recorded using ECHO 360 technology. There are many affordances within this technological mode of this learning experience.

Multimedia	Affordances	Comments
Text Audio Still Images Video PowerPoint Presentation	* Allow learners to process information through auditory & visual channels. * Affordable and manageable to produce * Resources can be reproduced for other presentations.	PowerPoint presentations can be changed into movies and be uploaded to distance learning programs. In addition, I added voiceover For distance learning only as a lecturer the use of Camtasia which is record on-screen activity to bring a new level of communication to e-learning.
ISL connection and recording of presentation using Echo 360	Provides the opportunity to record a live presentation for students who could not attend. Provides students with the opportunity to collaborate and ask direct questions to their facilitator or in-country representative. * You can show video via this means as part of your presentation.	The downside to this use of technology is that it is live and as a lecturer you can make mistakes. In addition, you have got no control if guess speakers are also presenting regarding timings as it is a live presentation. During the recording of my presentation – a construction worker accidently cut power or the power line to our Building. Therefore, I had to send the students my PowerPoint Presentation and add audio narrations to the individual slides.
Social media	Affordance	Comments
Skype Facebook	Social media is used for social interaction and it uses web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. For the Singapore Induction session – I used Skype and Facebook as Social Media to support the student learning experience.	Facebook only works as a medium if all the students in the class use Facebook in their everyday life. I discovered that some students that are going to Singapore do not use this Social media device. Therefore, you risk not have equality of information and learning available to every student.

During this course we have been exposed to many different types of technology. It is interesting when I compare myself to my friend who is a School Teacher at a Melbourne School teaching Year 2 students. My friend uses technology within her classroom on a daily basis; from interactive whiteboards to every student have desk iPad. At the moment the School of Nursing doesn’t have this sort of technology and it takes time to get used to new forms of technology. Last year I had no idea how to do a PowerPoint Presentation with audio inserted or to change it into a movie. It was a new experience to record someone on Skype and this with the class with a live audience. I am determined to keep experimenting with different media sources.

I will provide links to my Echo 360 presentation with live audio and it demonstrates Ryan speaking to the group via Skype before the power failure happened. I have also included a copy of the presentation that I sent out to the students of my PowerPoint with added audio narration. These presentations will be provided by my Word document for the coverpage for this assignment.

https://video.cqu.edu.au/ess/portal/section/bfe7cbe8-1618-43de-bba5-ff5b6d7b23c0

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Sunday, 7 June 2015

Blog Evaluation of Teaching & Learning with Technology

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Pedagogy

Technology