Things to do with your first personal tutorial

This is an idea list of things you might wish to talk about with your personal tutees in the first few tutorials. It originates from ECS (Dave de Roure and Hugh Davis in particular) so some of the ideas might be particular to that School. If you have suggestions you would wish to have added please email them to hcd@ecs.soton.ac.uk, or please feel free to copy any parts of the document and make a list specific to your school. Please enter the new list in EdShare!

How to Review a Paper

How to Review a Paper: A guide for newcomers and a refresher for the experienced.

A Day in the Life of a Student (2006)

This is self playing Powerpoint with sound, which was made by researchers in Learning Technology, in 2001, suggesting what the life of a student in 2006 might look like. It is interesting to see how far we have come (or not come) in the time since.

Les Carr explains the moral high ground on open educational resources

In this video, taken in front of the Parthenon at the Acropolis in Athens, Su White interviews Les Carr about why he asserts that there is a moral duty for teachers who create educational content to put that content in the public domain, rather than hoarding it in their institution.

Lecture on VLEs and MLEs

Powerpoint Lecture notes on Virtual Learning Environments and Managed Learning Environements

Writing a Technical Report for Electronic and Electrical Engineers

Has a mixture of factual information (conventions on how a report should be structured) and motivational information on improving writing and communication skills

INFO 1010 Introduction and An Introduction to Learning at University

Describes course objectives and looks at what it takes to be successful in learning at University

Approaches to Learning

Looks at some of the models of learning and discusses how they apply to university students

Projecting Yourself On-Line

Discusses the difference between how a student might project themself in social software and on a web page. Also discusses some of the risks of on-line presence.

A guide to writing formal technical reports

A guide to writing formal technical reports for IT and CS students

A survey of First Year Students on Arrival

Used to make students aware of the demographics of their cohort - and trends from previous years.

Open Hypertext

Lecture Notes on Open Hypertext

Spatial and Temporal Hypermedia

Overview of early work on Spatial and Temporal hypermeida