As the Second Semester is fast approaching, we are arranging the following orientation seminars for new University members to help them familiarize with the use of the central IT services and facilities.
You are welcome to attend either one of above seminars. Please register your attendance through the HKU Event Management System at the links provided above.
For any question on the above, please feel free to contact us at ithelp@hku.hk.
Veronica Yick
User Services
Information Technology Services
Speaker: Mr. Darren Harbutt, CETL
Time : 15th January, 2013 (Tuesday), 12:45 pm -2 pm
Venue : Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
Abstract
The e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit is offering a seminar looking at the pedagogical and logistical features of Moodle that can be leveraged to facilitate the feedback process and ultimately improve the quality of student learning. The seminar will present seven techniques, using Moodle and related technologies. Techniques will range from those that are quick and easy to implement to those which are more complex but result in deeper and more complete feedback.
This seminar is jointly organized by CITE and Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
CITE & Faculty of Education Moodle Seminar – Building on a Foundation of Participation
Date: 7 December 2012 (Friday)
Time: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Lecture T5, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Mr. Brant Knutzen, Learning Designer, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
About the Seminar
Would you like to get 100% participation in your online discussion activities? Think how much better the group collaboration would be if all the students contributed! Speaker Brant Knutzen has been developing a highly engaging and sustainable methodology for conducting online discussions since 2007. In this seminar he will introduce his new Moodle forum plugin, the Participation Forum, which automatically sets up group discussion areas and then dynamically awards participation points based on student contributions. Discussion will include intrinsic and extrinsic motivation methods, and how to build high quality learning on a foundation of participation. Instructors from the recent pilot project will share their experiences teaching using the Participation Forum with over 340 students, including a large (180+) Common Course course.
About the Speaker
Brant Knutzen is the Learning Designer for the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. He has been involved in e-learning for 28 years as software developer, website developer, and corporate trainer. He currently teaches on an MSc Education program relating to e-learning and educational leadership, and provides e-learning support and professional development for teaching staff. His research areas include the design, implementation and evaluation of highly engaging blended learning environments for schools and higher education. Current Moodle plugin development projects include the Participation Map: a new way to visually display online discussion activity, and the Participation Forum: which generates a grade based on student posting activity. See Brant.Knutzen.se for more information.
If you have an idea for a Faculty level workshop or would like support developing your course for Moodle, please get in touch with Iain Doherty (i.doherty@hku.hk).
4. Local Moodle User Groups
The EPSU has been consulting with colleagues within Faculties to set up Faculty level Moodle User Groups (MUGs). Contact your Faculty e-learning Officer – http://epsu.cetl.hku.hk/elearning-officers/ – to see if there is a group in your Faculty.
5. Have Your Say With Moodle
The University e-learning Enhancement Task Force (EETF) manages the process around requests to enhance Moodle so that the system meets the specific needs of Faculties. If you want to see changes to Moodle take a look at the full newsletter (http://epsu.cetl.hku.hk/elearning-news-dec2012/).
6. The Moodle Users Group
The Moodle Users Group meets most Thursdays at lunchtime for workshops on teaching practice using the Moodle LMS. Click here for the latest workshop schedule. (http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?category=seminar)
7. e-learning seminars by the Faculty of Education and CITE
The Faculty of Education in conjunction with CITE hosts seminars by speakers on a range of e-learning topics. Click here for the latest seminar schedule. (http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?category=seminar)
8. Revamp of Moodle Support Website
The Moodle support website (http://moodle-support.hku.hk ) has been revamped and rolled out with a completely new layout.
9. Scaled Up of Moodle server system
To further enhance Moodle server capacity and performance, two more web servers were added to the pool of three web servers.
Dr. Iain Doherty
Director, e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit
Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
The University of Hong Kong
Email: idoherty@hku.hk
Tel: +852 3917 4917
Kenneth Siu
e-learning Team, Information Technology Services
The University of Hong Kong
Email: sky168@hku.hk
Tel: +852 3917 8708
Brant Knutzen, MSc. IT in Ed (HKU)
Learning Designer,
Faculty of Education
The University of Hong Kong
Email: brant@hku.hk
Tel: +852 2241 5455
Message from Centre for Information Technology in Education within the Faculty of Education
The workshop is jointly organized by CITE and Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Moodle Users Group (MUG) Workshop
Date: 22 November 2012 (Thursday)
Time: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Room 101, 1/F., Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Mr. Brant Knutzen, Learning Designer, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
About the Workshop
The Moodle Users Group workshops are designed to give instructors and TAs support for the development and implementation of Moodle courses to support teaching and learning. Users of all levels are welcome: if you need help uploading files, setting up collaborative activities, or aligning your course curriculum with your intended learning outcomes. Bring your laptop — these are hands-on workshops! Facilitators may demonstrate their own Moodle courses and activities, but there are no slideshow presentations planned.
About the Speaker
Brant Knutzen is the Learning Designer for the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. He has been involved in e-learning for 28 years as software developer, website developer, and corporate trainer. He currently teaches on an MSc Education program relating to e-learning and educational leadership, and provides e-learning support and professional development for teaching staff. His research areas include the design, implementation and evaluation of highly engaging blended learning environments for schools and higher education. Current Moodle plugin development projects include the Participation Map: a new way to visually display online discussion activity, and the Participation Forum: which generates a grade based on student posting activity. See Brant.Knutzen.se for more information.
With effect from 15 October, 2012, the University Libraries has launched an advisory service for students in the Chi Wah Learning Commons (智華館). The University Libraries will offer assistance to students in:
using the library services and facilities;
formulating search strategies;
searching the information resources, such as Dragon (the library catalogue) and the article databases; and
setting up personal consultations for in-depth information search.
The advisory service is available Monday to Friday from 10 am to 5 pm in Zone R, i.e. the designated Student Advisory Services Zone shown in green in the following floor plan.
The Libraries aims to provide high quality advisory service to facilitate student learning experience at the Learning Commons which is developing into a campus hub for student-centered learning activities.
You are most welcome to share with us what you think about the Libraries’ advisory service at the Chi Wah Learning Commons by sending us an email to hkulref@hku.hk.
e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit Services
The e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit (EPSU) exists to support Faculties with their e-learning needs. If you have an idea for a Faculty level workshop, please get in touch with Iain Doherty.
3 e-learning Workshop Series
Commencing 25th October the e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit is offering a series of 3 workshops which focus on practical ways to successfully incorporate technologies into teaching and learning. There is still time to register for workshops 2 and 3 by visiting here.
Local Moodle User Groups
The EPSU has been consulting with colleagues within Faculties to set up Faculty level Moodle User Groups (MUGs). .
Have Your Say With Moodle
The University e-learning Enhancement Task Force (EETF) has continued to manage the process around requests to enhance Moodle so that the system meets the specific needs of Faculties.
Get in Touch
Please feel free to get in touch directly with the e-learning Pedagogical Unit Director – Iain Doherty – with questions, issues, requests related to e-learning at HKU.
The Moodle Users Group
The Moodle Users Group meets most Thursdays at lunchtime for workshops on teaching practice using the Moodle LMS, including blended learning activity development.
e-learning seminars by the Faculty of Education and CITE
The Faculty of Education in conjunction with CITE hosts seminars by speakers on a range of e-learning topics, with a focus on innovative use of technology to support teaching and learning.
Release of new Moodle plugins and support block
Two new plugins were released on the Moodle production system in September:
Quickmail – provides emailing capability within Moodle courses. It allows teachers (and optionally students) to email students or groups of students with attachments.
Questionnaire – a survey-like type of activity. It enables teachers to create a wide range of questions to get student feedback e.g. on a course or on activities.
A “Moodle support” block has also been built and put on the homepage of every Moodle course. It contains the most frequently asked user support information.
Moodle Hands-on Training Courses for Staff
The Moodle hands-on training courses conducted by IT Services for November are now open for registration. The courses details can be found at here.
Organized by Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)
Speaker: Mr. Darren Harbutt, Instructional Designer, CETL
Date: 6 Nov, 2012 (Tue)
Time: 12.45pm - 2.00pm
Venue:Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building
Abstract
The session will discuss current use of Moodle by CC Tutors and will present some Moodle functions focusing on collaboration and conversation, including forums and groups. Please bring along a laptop as there will be some hands-on time during the workshop.
For information on registration, please contact:
Ms Ivy Lai, CETL
Phone: 3917 8996; Email: laichun2@hku.hk.
Organized by Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)
Date and Time:
Technology-assisted teaching and learning – 25 Oct, 2012 (Thu) 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Technology-enhanced teaching and learning – 1 Nov, 2012 (Thu) 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Technology-enriched teaching and learning – 8 Nov, 2012 (Thu) 12:45pm – 2:00pm
Venue:
Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
Overview:
The e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit is offering a series of 3 workshops which focus on practical ways to successfully incorporate technologies into teaching and learning. Based on the University’s e-learning Strategy, the workshops will cover the following areas:
Technology-assisted teaching and learning: Using a range of Moodle features to add and display content in a functional and meaningful way, including the use of visuals and different types of media.
Technology-enhanced teaching and learning: Defining different forms of learning and rethinking the classroom space.
Technology-enriched teaching and learning: Presentations from colleagues at HKU who have made innovative use of Moodle.
The first two workshops are scheduled to run for 2 hours and will include presentation, discussion and hands-on time to put the theory into practice. The third workshop will showcase good practice from colleagues at HKU. Although the workshops are designed as a series, it is not necessary to attend all three workshops. Please bring a laptop to participate in the hands-on component.
For information on registration, please contact:
Ms Ivy Lai, CETL
Phone: 3917 8996; Email: laichun2@hku.hk.
e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit Services
The e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit (EPSU) exists to support Faculties with their e-learning needs. During August and September the EPSU ran Faculty level workshops for 6 out of the 10 Faculties.
New Staff Member The EPSU is pleased to welcome Darren Harbutt to the EPSU team.
DOW – The Library Skills Tutorial on Moodle With the collaborative effort of the e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit, Centre for Information Technology in Education and HKU Libraries, we are pleased to introduce DOW, the Library Skills Tutorial on Moodle.
Have Your Say With Moodle
The University e-learning Enhancement Task Force (EETF) has continued to manage the process around requests to enhance Moodle so that the system meets the specific needs of Faculties.
The Moodle Users Group
The Moodle Users Group meets most Thursdays at lunchtime for workshops on teaching practice using the Moodle LMS, including blended learning activity development. .
e-learning seminars by the Faculty of Education and CITE
The Faculty of Education in conjunction with CITE hosts seminars by speakers on a range of e-learning topics, with a focus on innovative use of technology to support teaching and learning.
Moodle Support Block
A Moodle support block is proposed to be established onto Moodle in early October.
Moodle Hands-on Training Courses for Staff
The Moodle hands-on training courses conducted by ITS in October 2012 are now open for registration.
The e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit is offering a seminar looking at the pedagogical and logistical features of Moodle that can be leveraged to facilitate the feedback process and ultimately improve the quality of student learning. The seminar will present seven techniques, using Moodle and related technologies. Techniques will range from those that are quick and easy to implement to those which are more complex but result in deeper and more complete feedback.