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Thursday 18th June, 2pm BST. Emotions trigger motivational, psychological, social, and cognitive impacts to learning. Emotions, whether positive or negative, lead to an increase in knowledge retention. So, it is critical that we as digital learning designers trigger emotional responses to our learning. Join this 30-minute webinar from omniplex to learn: The different types of knowledge emotions The impact emotions have on learning How to effectively evoke emotion in your digital learning content

Thursday 18th June from 10:00 – 15:00 The event will focus on sharing of best practice, adapting to what could become the ‘new normal’ of remote teaching delivery and how we can further build on the leaps we have taken forward in online and blended learning. Register here

Moodle Educator Certification - begins on June 1st! The eThink team is excited to offer the Moodle Educator Certification Program developed by Moodle HQ's Education Team. In the first "Foundation" course, participants will work through six different modules in order to demonstrate effectiveness with digital competencies using Moodle tools that go beyond your average "how to" training. This course is geared towards experienced Moodlers who are comfortable with key elements of Moodle. Register here Build a Better Moodle Course - begins on June 17th! This course proposes that building a Moodle course is like building a house. You want a strong foundation, sturdy walls, electric and plumbing that adheres to code, and a stylish interior design. At the end of this seven module course, participants will learn how to craft sturdy, functional, and attractive Moodle courses. Register here

Free OpenLearn Course Online learning has rapidly emerged and is now found in every area of education, from schools to skills training. More people than ever learn through online courses. Even where teaching is primarily ‘face to face’, online tools and interactions have become a key part of the learning experience. But teaching online is different. If you work in education or training at any level, you need to develop new skills and understanding in order to make the right decisions, make the most of the opportunities, and overcome common challenges. In Take your teaching online, you will hear about the experiences of real educators, be introduced to cutting edge research, and understand the ideas and tools that shape how we teach and learn online. You will also learn useful methods that will guide you to test out these new ideas in your own practice. The course includes educational theory, is free, and is suggested to take three hours a week for 8 weeks. Click on this link to register for the course.

Spaces are still available for CDN's free online sessions, which have been designed for college staff, managers and leaders. The first session - Working Remotely - will take place next Tuesday 5 May, and will be delivered by Dr. Sue Mitchell MAC MPSA, Director at Aeona and author of 'The Authority Guide to Engaging your People'. A range of other interactive sessions will be delivered throughout May, detailed below... Working Remotely Tuesday 5 May, 11am Gain insights and tips on how to manage yourself and manage your space, time and energy to be as effective as you can be. This Zoom session will include lots of opportunity for interaction, including chat text and breakout rooms so you can share with your colleagues what is working well in a college context. Delivered by Dr. Sue Mitchell MAC MPSA, Director at Aeona, and author of 'The Authority Guide to Engaging your People' Register here Mindfulness for Leaders - An Experiential Introduction Wednesday 13 May, 10am This session is for those who want to explore the concept of mindfulness and the evidence base. Understand the benefits of mindfulness as a way towards personal mastery and the relevance of this for leaders living and working in an 'attention economy'. Delivered by Sandy MacLean, CDN Lead for Curriculum and Teaching Register here Managing Remotely Thursday 14 May, 11am How can you manage effectively when you don’t meet your people and no longer work together in the same way? This session explores tips to manage your team remotely, keep everyone engaged and clear on expectations, including the often overlooked aspects of how you enhance the ‘human’ elements when we interact via technology. Delivered by Dr. Sue Mitchell MAC MPSA, Director at Aeona, and author of 'The Authority Guide to Engaging your People” Register here Leading Remotely in a Crisis Monday 18 May, 11am Find out how you can lead the college community and the organisation as a whole to help them thrive during and after this crisis. What do you need to consider for communications and how you create and maintain a positive culture across the organisation when staff are not coming into the workplace and are dispersed so widely? What can you do for looking over the horizon and bringing people with you? Delivered by Dr. Sue Mitchell MAC MPSA, Director at Aeona, and author of 'The Authority Guide to Engaging your People Register here Mindfulness for Leaders - An Experiential Introduction Tuesday 26 May, 10am This session is for those who want to explore the concept of mindfulness and the evidence base. Understand the benefits of mindfulness as a way towards personal mastery and the relevance of this for leaders living and working in an 'attention economy'. Delivered by Sandy MacLean, CDN Lead for Curriculum and Teaching Register here

What do Beatles pop songs and experimental music by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band have to do with remote teaching? Tune in to listen to four lecturers talk about their remote teaching experiences as a result of #COVID19, from the University of Liverpool: 1. Blog post link to Podcast 1/2 on remote teaching – How do your academic and emotional responses to the Coronavirus chime with those of our guests? 2. Blog post link to Podcast 2/2 on remote teaching – The conversation continues to touch on student engagement, technological comfort zones, students' wellbeing & learning; the pros and cons of a/synchronous interactions and rethinking pedagogy.

Thanks to Susan Carton for this very informative post. Please don’t close this news down – this really could help! Who else is drowning under the emails with all the tech whizz-bang new resources that we should all be using? If you need some breathing space and need to focus on really important issues like marking, preparing classes, timetabling or interviewing – then this may give you the time you need to just take a breath,  think about your priorities and begin to relax into what you need to focus on.  I’ve been trying to audio record over my powerpoints and there have been a lot of ‘bad words’ as I struggle to sound engaging. If you have no time to read this, then scroll to the end of the document for a ‘ClickView into Moodle’ baby step guide. Really,  I am right beside you – homeworking could be really amazing and when we get into this, we will achieve so much.  However, we are drowning in the sharing of resources.  Thanks – but no thanks. Maybe there should be a WCS rule …  ‘though shalt only share one useful pointer per week and give teaching staff a chance to apply that new knowledge’ or you will cause anxiety and stress among your teaching staff. That said (sheepishly…)   this really is useful. ClickView video resources – free, easy to use and WOW, something that actually does save time! I joined in with the ClickView webinar: remote working in FE.  It helped to reduce some of the anxieties that you get when you are looking into the massive depths of unknown tech/software.  Yes, it is like that for some of us!   Don’t be put off.  Give this one a try – really,  it is SO useful. What is ClickView?  It is a library of video resources that you can add to moodle (or another platform) and share with your classes.  It has been designed to provide ‘compelling vocational content’ for our level of students and there are a lot of resources there. (Tertiary = FE and Universities).   ESOL, Accounts and Business, Travel and Tourism, Hospitality, Arts and so on are all there.  It will take 5 minutes to glance at it to see if it has content you can use. Have fun!     This is something I hadn’t thought about.  We are working with students in vulnerable positions and who could become anxious about this form of learning.   It is recommended – during the Coronavirus restrictions – that we have fun with this and not just use it for teaching and learning. To reinstate the social interaction that comes with being in a college ClickView recommends that you choose a film – and instead of having a book club, have a film club. Your students will all watch a movie and can chat about this with each other – immediately having something in common other than learning stresses.  You can choose a movie that is relevant to some extent to your subject area if you like – but there is always Jurassic Park!!! If you are requesting something from the TV from ClickView and you want the movie without the adverts, this can take 48 hours to do for you – but they will do it.  Then it will just ‘arrive’ in your personal workspace for you to use. I have never used it before.  Now I have started using this video content in my Moodle page.  Let’s face it, anything that saves time, effort and reduces stress at this time has to be a good thing.   Also – this is really going to enhance the learning experience for some students who like the audio-visual resources. You know what?   It is better than anything I could have made – so that is also a bonus! We can use all content freely, we don’t have to prepare the content AND it is easy to upload to Moodle. I have prepared a baby step guide to help you out on how to add these resources to moodle. ClickView baby steps

Free webinars from Aurion Learning In response to demand from our last webinar, we are pleased to announce the launch of a three-part ‘how to’ webinar series to help you fast-track your remote training strategy. 1. How to design and run effective eLearning webinars Thursday 30 April 2020 12 pm BST Join us as we provide a guide on how to design and facilitate engaging, live, interactive webinars. With support from our experienced team, you will follow our 5-step approach to designing, delivering, and evaluating an instructional webinar. 2. How to structure PowerPoint for remote training Thursday 7 May 2020 12 pm Learn the practical strategies for structuring a PowerPoint presentation for remote training. Get practical tips and instructional insights with Aurion on how to make the most of your existing classroom materials for online delivery. 3. How to create effective remote learning activities Thursday 14 May 2020 12 pm Workplace learning activities are a great way to engage learners in between formal training session. Join this session to find out how to structure an effective activity and tailor your chosen activities for remote learning. To learn more about the webinar series click here, or contact our client services team at hello@aurionlearning.com Grab your seat now and hope to see you online.

As per recent Staff Intranet post - the College is moving towards greater use of Microsoft Teams. As well as using Microsoft Teams to collaborate with members of your Staff Team Group - it can be used for collaboration with anyone in the college (staff or students) or external Microsoft Teams users for, meetings, audio calls, video calls, text ‘chats’, sharing files, sharing desktops / windows, whiteboards, and more, without the need to have a Teams Group created. Please click on the image below to access a range of Training Videos created by Microsoft: