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Today I presented some of my work on twitter voting to the Engaging Students Through In-Class Technology (ESTICT) special interest group. This group “is a UK network of education practitioners and learning technologists interested in promoting good practice with classroom technologies that can enhance face-to-face teaching.”

I used this slot as an opportunity to try out some some presentation techniques. The first was using Timo Elliott’s PowerPoint auto-tweet plugin which allows you to automatically tweet notes as you work through the slide deck. The plan was that this would provide ready made links and snippets for re-tweeting, favouring or just copying into a users personal notes. I also did this to generate information to twitter subtitle my presentation. An unforeseen benefit was that the tweets provided a stimulus for further discussion after the presentation.

The other technique I picked up from was from a presentation by Tony Hirst in which he included links to secondary resources by only displaying the end of a shortened url. This is demonstrated in the presentation (with twitter subtitles of course ;-) (the link also contains a recipe for lecture capture enhancement):

Things have been quite on the blogging front as we dug out the tinsel to celebrate all things JISC at our Winter Fayre. We managed to squeeze almost 30 different keynotes, workshops and sessions into the day, including two by yours truly.

I had the honour of presenting a short overview of electronic voting present and future in ‘Ask the Audience’ and an opportunity to showcase, what has become a highly honed, Google Wave intro and overview.

I’ve attached both PowerPoints I used below which you are free to pick over and reuse if you like. Just to remind our supported institutions I am available for weddings, birthdays and staff development events (if you are not supported directly by us we are open to offers particularly if they require going to warmer climes ;)

[Both these presentations embed Flash into PowerPoint. To view when prompted you need to enable the content]

Ask The Audience *.ppt (3Mb)

Google Wave 101 *.ppt (1.4Mb)

Yesterday I presented TwEVS to the e-Learning Alliance FE/HE SIG held at University of St. Andrews. My presentation (including audio) is below:

The day included presentations on remote teaching using video conferencing, electronic voting systems and an introduction to twitter, so finishing on TwEVS seemed to round the day off nicely.

When I get a chance I would like to post some reflections on the other presentations …