Welcome to the first CELT Matters e-bulletin providing a digest of our collaborative learning and teaching events and initiatives. CELT webpage information is at http://celt.newport.ac.uk with Moodle pages for CELT Enterprise and CELT Activities.
Best wishes
Jo
Dr. Jo Smedley, Director of CELT
Dr. Jo Smedley, Director of CELT
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Academic Practice (Key Contact: Bela Arora)
As part of Academic Practice, our aim is to support colleagues in their development and progression by promoting engagement with the learning and teaching agenda and advanced scholarship. We offer a range of opportunities aimed at enhancing professional practice and shaping the student experience.
CELT Winter Conference
We have pleasure in inviting you to the Annual Winter Conference, which will be held on 13th January 2012 at the City Campus. The conference will be hands-on and interactive, so come along to learn, reflect and be inspired.
Academic Practice Workshop Series
We have compiled a comprehensive series of workshops aimed at supporting individuals and teams in their academic practice. Forthcoming events include:
- Progressing Graduate Attributes: What graduates can “do”“, November 17th
- Applying for Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, November 24th
- Applying for the National Teaching Fellowship, December 5th
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B) Careers and Employability (Key Contact: Lloyd Williams)
An extensive selection of careers events and employability workshops for current students and Newport graduates already have been run this year, in particular with cohorts from Film and Video, Engineering, Community Health, and Primary Studies; an extensive range of future commitments can be found at http://tinyurl.com/667lya8
A successful Volunteering and Placement Fair was run in October. In addition, Employer in the Foyers have been run on both campuses with recruiters engaging directly with our students. More of the same to follow in coming weeks with contributions to Money Week and a Teaching Fair in December. Full details of the larger events can be found at http://outsidelearning.newport.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=3749
Careers newsletters are regularly sent to students; our vacancy advertising service has just been upgraded and we require all jobseekers to re-register. Note students can search for vacancies we promote via http://newport.prospects.ac.uk/
We regularly update our students on jobs, opportunities, awards and competitions and urge them to follow Newportcareers on Twitter and Facebook.
Whilst we have a comprehensive online service and a physical presence at Caerleon we are also available for Drop Ins at the City Centre Campus most Wednesday mornings, in the Learning Centre. Additional support sessions can be arranged and we would welcome the exploration of further opportunities to engage with learners directly through their programme of study.
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C) Digital Enhanced Learning (Key Contact: Paul Andrews)
Fortnightly CDEL Workshops - covering a range of topics from Core Moodle Fundamentals to making Moodle more intuitive. Workshops are open to all staff and run at the City Centre and Caerleon Campuses. Full details of the workshops and how to book is available via the CDEL Academy: cdel.newport.ac.uk
Newport's Moodle is now available in Welsh - for full details on how to activate this places contact Dyfan Owen.
CDEL has made two recent appointments:
- Richard Oelmann in his role as web-based learning developer, will customise and modify Newport's Moodle to meet the logistical and pedagogical needs of staff. If Moodle could be modified to support you better then please let us know via cdel@newport.ac.uk
- Elizabeth Jones, in her role as learning technologist, will be based in the City Centre hot house providing on demand help and support for staff in using Moodle and integrating digital technologies into teaching, research and general working practices
A new "90 minute manager" workshop entitled: Using Technology to Work smarter - will run on 2 dates, 5th December 2011 and 26th January 2012 at 15:00 involving CDEL and HR. This workshop is aimed at busy managers looking to make communication, collaboration and time management easier through the use of various free technologies. To book a place, please log into the myHR system.
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D) Library (Key Contacts: Madeleine Rogerson (Caerleon), Dawne Leatherdale (City))
Links to the Newport Harvard referencing guides are available on both the Library and Study Advice pages.
The Library Harvard guide is the fuller guide as approved by Academic Board: https://my.newport.ac.uk/moodle/course/view.php?id=33
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The Study Advice Harvard Guide is a shorter guide (so it is cheaper for the students to print) found at https://my.newport.ac.uk/moodle/course/view.php?id=394&topic=6
Both have been updated following the most recent British Standards guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information sources.
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E) Study Advice (Key Contacts: Robecca Bennett-Wilding & Angela Morelli)
An online Tutorial Booking Form is now ready for students to book their 1:1 and small group tutorials. This form is a quick and easy way for students to book a time to see a Study Advice Tutor. https://my.newport.ac.uk/moodle/course/view.php?id=394
Staff are invited to book Study Advice refresher talks where we can come and talk to your students to remind them about the service and how we can help them develop their study skills.
