Technology Demonstrators

We know you browsed and read the TechDem November Newsletter. However we couldn't finish 2022 without a final communication that celebrates our adventures this year and points clearly to opportunities for YOU and your COLLEAGUES, your STUDENTS and your SCHOOL in 2023.

Read the CONVERSATION compiled by Katrina that shares YOUR achievements in 2022.

DID YOU KNOW?

• We created 15 Smore newsletters and announcements (e.g. Nov 2022) that were collectively opened 6,436 times (as of mid-November). Amazingly, Issue 7, July 2022 was opened 866 times.
• For the period 22 August - 19 November 2022 - a few statistics
  
• EdTech Site: Users: 307 | Sessions: 993 | Page Views: 4,959
• TechDem YouTube Channel: 2,338 views | 71.3 hours of Watch-Time
• Create@UniSQ: Users: 2,860 | Sessions: 8,975 | Page views 57, 495

The ASCILITE Conference takes place the first week of December. ASCILITE stands for the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. This year TechDems was represented via a team-created virtual Poster session and a paper co-written by Lisa and Julie.

In addition our final Balancing the Shift Podcast, Episode 5, shares insight and highlights of the conference. Make sure you explore all 5 episodes!

Jacka, L., & Lindsay, J. (2022). Flexible Learning and the Virtual Campus. ASCILITE Publications, e22154. https://doi.org/10.14742/apubs.2022.154

Lisa presented using this VOICETHREAD that is now a dynamic digital legacy that you are invited to review and add comments/questions.

Lindsay, J., Crouch, V., & Cutcliffe, K. (2022). Disrupting the traditional academic development model: Technology Demonstrators. ASCILITE Publications, e22167. https://doi.org/10.14742/apubs.2022.167

Our amazing web designer and tech guru Jo Kay created a PREZI to share our poster info. Make sure you explore it!

Virtual Immersive Environments SIG - chaired by Lisa Jacka

The Virtual Immersive Environments SIG will be engaging members to think differently about learning environments through a systematic approach to the best practice use of virtual immersive environments.

READ MORE and fill in an EOI to join/find out more.

Pathways to Innovation SIG - chaired by Katrina Cutcliffe

This SIG is for those who are keen to master the basics and then push the boundaries. We have two overlapping focuses.

Pathways: We focus on implementing the fundamentals by exploring tools, pedagogies, and strategies that you can take away and easily replicate.

Innovation: We think creatively and strategically about how each of these tools, pedagogies, or strategies can be adapted or combined, with their affordances plumbed for opportunity.

READ MORE and fill in an EOI to join/find out more.

Get a head start and plan to join in one or more of these opportunities (this is not the final list - more coming in January!)

• ENGAGELI PILOT (extended from the successful 2022 pilot to include more disciplines). Complete this EOI for 2023 now.
  

• FEEDBACK FRUITS PILOT July-December (and participation encouraged in early 2023 also)

• FeedbackFruits LMS-integrated tool suite is an all-in-one solution to boost student engagement and collaboration in any course setting.

• READ more about the all-in-one tool suite for active learning design.

• More info and sign up details coming next year

• STUDENT WORDPRESS PORTFOLIOS - This project is business as usual in 2023.
  
• READ the 5-step TEACHER GUIDE and join your course to this initiative now

• MS TEAMS for TEACHING PILOT - We have integrated MS Teams into StudyDesk (in collaboration with ICT!) and now offer this opportunity as a pilot - not to everyone, just to those who sign up! Follow the link to the form to register interest - be quick!

November 2022 - Final CoP and other important updates and resources

October 2022 - More ThinkPieces, our new Podcast, L&T Showcase

September 2022 - Focus on SIGs and best practice

August 2022 - Best conversations, Benefits of video-based learning

July 2022 - Engageli, SIG News, Creating a virtual campus

June 2022 - Learning and Teaching Initiatives Sem 2

May 2022 - Engage with Engageli - Meet the Champions

April 2022 - Connectivism and TechDem Champions

March 2022 - Creating a HyFlex classroom

February 2022 - Updates and resources

January 2022 - How to engage with Technology Demonstrators

Technology Demonstrators (TechDems) is a UniSQ initiative designed to foster educational innovation, through active experimentation with, and evaluation of, educational technologies and other digital platforms to continuously improve learning and teaching.

Use the QR code or link here to access the Technology Demonstrator website

Dr Julie Lindsay

Senior Education Technology Advisor

Email: julie.lindsay@usq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 46312890