The JISC Regional Support Centre Wales

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VideoconferencingImplications for Teaching
Peter Scott - ILT Advisor, RSC
Wales p.scott_at_swansea.ac.uk 01792 513387
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Videoconferencing and Teaching

• Contents
• Why Use Videoconferencing?
• Preparation Of Materials
• Practical Implications
• Further Information

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Why Use Videoconferencing?
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Videoconferencing and Teaching
Why use videoconferencing?

• Enhance learning experience
• Language teaching
• Input from an expert
• Multi-site colleges
• Distance learning / Inclusivity
• Teaching tool
• Support tool
• Training in the workplace
• Standard Conferencing

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Videoconferencing and Teaching
Why use videoconferencing?

• Make courses viable
• Low student numbers chainsaw maintenance
• Share lecturer expertise
• Give students access to techniques you could
  not otherwise demonstrate
• Its fun and easy!
• Telephones with Pictures

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Preparation of Materials
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Preparation of Materials
Selecting and designing

• Quality rather than quantity
• Not all images will be suitable such as
• complicated diagrams
• detailed notes
• certain colours and graphics
• finely detailed slides

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Preparation of Materials
Selecting and designing
Hand written notes
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Preparation of Materials
Selecting and designing
Font size and style
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Preparation of Materials
Selecting and designing
Use of colour
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Preparation of Materials
Selecting and designing
Graphics
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Preparation of Materials
Selecting and designing
Graphics
An example of what not to do!!
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Preparation of Materials
Support Materials

• Preparation of support materials
• prior to delivery of course
• handouts to go to local and remote students
  procedures for doing this
• continuity of delivery even if visual output
  goes down
• communication procedures especially with
  remote audience
• student / lecturer
• lecturer / facilitator
• student / student

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Practical Implications
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Practical Implications
The Teaching Environment

• Course delivery is to multiple sites
• delivery may assist and benefit remote students
  but what about local students?
• Control of different technologies as well as
  teaching
• having to worry about changing visual feeds and
  learning new applications.
• Additional session planning
• pre-planning of the session, and pre-planning of
  a contingency plan if technology fails, or
  session doesnt go as planned
• The ability to change the session plan according
  to needs of the audience
• just as might happen in more traditional
  delivery methods

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Practical Implications
The Teaching Environment
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Practice !!
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Practical Implications
Practice

• Dont try to run before you can walk
• Get comfortable with the room and the
  technology before attempting delivery of courses
• Conference with colleagues in other institutions
• they will want to practice too!!
• Get technical support to sit in on at least the
  1st few sessions
• Informal sessions always work best, so have a
  sense of humour
• Use the technology as a tool enhancement is
  the key to its success!

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Videoconferencing
Further Information

• http//www.wvn.ac.uk/training/presentations
• http//www.rsc-wales.ac.uk/english/ilt/videoconfe
  rencing.shtml
• http//www.jvcs.video.ja.net
• http//www.jtap.ac.uk
• http//ferl.becta.org.uk (search for
  videoconferencing)
• http//www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/ltdi/vcstudies/index.htm
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