We have been invited to present our Students4webES project, being run here at Abingdon & Witney College, at BETT 2013 by Nigel Ecclesfield, Programme Manager, JISC Advance. Ellen Lessner (Project Leader) will be presenting our project on Friday 1st February in the Learn Live Theatre E at 10:15 in the workshop session Who are digital practitioners? Ellen will be presenting along side three other JISC Advance projects being run at Kendal College, South Tyneside College and the Inclusion Consortium. Please do come along if you are at BETT on Friday!
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
(Students4WebES Project Manager)
Saturday, 26 January 2013
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Employability skills baseline data
When we conducted our baseline assessment on for this project, we asked the students to write down three employability skills - the sort of skills they would list on their CV. We are in the process of analysing this data, but have created a Wordle to represent the 256 student responses that we received. At the end of the project we plan to compare the student responses with the skills that the employers mention in the up and coming webinars.
With a Wordle, the larger the word is the more times it was mentioned in the text, in this case the baseline assessment responses, as you can see the most frequently mentioned skills were:
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Students4WebES Project Manager
With a Wordle, the larger the word is the more times it was mentioned in the text, in this case the baseline assessment responses, as you can see the most frequently mentioned skills were:
- Hard working
- Team work
- Communication
- Reliable
- Punctual
- Organised
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Students4WebES Project Manager
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Steering Group Meeting - On and Offline
On Monday we had our Steering Group meeting and with lots of snow still on the ground we went with a mixture of plan A and B. Those of us that were local and able to get to college easily met in the small meeting room at Abingdon and Witney College and those that weren't able to travel joined us online via Blackboard Collaborate.
The meeting room was set up with a computer, conference speaker phone, webcam, projector and an iPad plus a couple of phones just in case. You can never have too much technology available!
With the webcam set up Artie, Eddie and Nigel were able to see everyone in the meeting including three students from the core group who attended the first half of the meeting.
We made use of some of the features of Blackboard Collaborate including using it to show the project website and blog and used the tick feature to confirm that everyone could see it.
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Students4WebES Project Manager
Those that made it to the meeting in person got to enjoy a lovely selection of cakes made by Ellen Lessner (Project Leader) - they were delicious!
The meeting room was set up with a computer, conference speaker phone, webcam, projector and an iPad plus a couple of phones just in case. You can never have too much technology available!
With the webcam set up Artie, Eddie and Nigel were able to see everyone in the meeting including three students from the core group who attended the first half of the meeting.
We made use of some of the features of Blackboard Collaborate including using it to show the project website and blog and used the tick feature to confirm that everyone could see it.
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Students4WebES Project Manager
Sunday, 20 January 2013
And the snow keeps falling!
Before the snow arrived on Friday morning we made a back up plan for our Project Steering Committee Meeting which is scheduled for tomorrow at Abingdon and Witney College. Our plan is that if people attending the meeting get snowed in, rather than letting our meeting be snowed off we will meet online instead in a webinar.
We have a Blackboard Collaborate session set up should we need to use it for some or all of the attendees - the agenda, project leader's report and project manager's report have all been sent out by email so we are fully ready for more snow! If we do have to go with plan B the only thing that will have to be put on ice is the cake - it might have to be a case of BYOC (Bring Your Own Cake) tomorrow!
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| View of my garden... and the snow keeps falling! Post by Emma Procter-Legg Students4WebES Project Manager |
Thursday, 17 January 2013
First webinar completed!
On Monday we successfully ran our first webinar with an employer. Head of Staff Services at Abingdon and Witney College, Kelly Boast, gave a short presentation and took questions from students via Blackboard Collaborate.
The session was introduced and moderated by students from the core group and Kelly was supported in her office by another student from the core group. This was the first time that the students had put into practice their knowledge gained from the advanced webinar training session.
Below is a recording of the webinar, this is a screen capture recording of it as we had an issue with the Blackboard Collaborate recording not capturing the slide transitions. We only had a couple of minor technical issues during the recording, one when students posed questions via a speaker phone which caused an echo, however this was quickly resolved. The second issue was again with the sound, but this time a voice was slightly muffled towards the end of the recording, this was due to the microphone on a headset slipping.
We think our first employability webinar was a great success, we learnt a number of important lessons and feel confident that the following ones will be equally successful too!
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Students4WebES Project Manager
The session was introduced and moderated by students from the core group and Kelly was supported in her office by another student from the core group. This was the first time that the students had put into practice their knowledge gained from the advanced webinar training session.
Below is a recording of the webinar, this is a screen capture recording of it as we had an issue with the Blackboard Collaborate recording not capturing the slide transitions. We only had a couple of minor technical issues during the recording, one when students posed questions via a speaker phone which caused an echo, however this was quickly resolved. The second issue was again with the sound, but this time a voice was slightly muffled towards the end of the recording, this was due to the microphone on a headset slipping.
We think our first employability webinar was a great success, we learnt a number of important lessons and feel confident that the following ones will be equally successful too!
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Students4WebES Project Manager
Thursday, 10 January 2013
A few photos on PhotoPeach
Students4webES project photos on PhotoPeach
A few photos from the project meetings and advanced webinar training sessions. If your computer doesn't display the PhotoPeach please click here to see it.
A few photos from the project meetings and advanced webinar training sessions. If your computer doesn't display the PhotoPeach please click here to see it.
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Advanced webinar training
During
the last two weeks of term, we ran two sessions on advanced
training on Webinars for the core students involved in the
Students4webES project. The first session was run live with the
presenter, Owen Hanmer from the JISC RSC SE in Kent, presenting to the
group using Blackboard Collaborate. The session covered how to run a webinar via Collaborate including moderator settings and the chance for students to moderate a practice webinar. The whole session was recorded and used during the second session to train the other half of the core group.
All the students who attended the three hour training session received a certificate of participation. We are now ready to put our new knowledge into action and get started with our first webinar with an employer.... watch this space!
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Students4WebES Project Manager
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| Students participating in the advanced webinar training session |
All the students who attended the three hour training session received a certificate of participation. We are now ready to put our new knowledge into action and get started with our first webinar with an employer.... watch this space!
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Students4WebES Project Manager
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