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The accessibility tool ReachDeck (previously "Browse Aloud") has now been added to the College websites and our Virtual Learning Environments, Moodle and DLS. This is a fantastic accessibility tool which all students and staff can start using. To start using just click on the ReachDeck icon on the College websites. Watch this great video guide to get you started! The second video is about supporting essential communication and digital services.

Want to learn how to develop the best pedagogy for your students using blended and online learning methods? This course from UCL and Future Learn may be just what you are looking for. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/blended-and-online-learning-design/3 It is free to enrol and based on Diana Laurillard’s Conversational Framework. Overview Develop the skills you need to teach blended and online learning Online learning is the future of teaching. This three-week teaching course aims to support teachers’ own innovations in teaching and learning online, whether you teach in a school, college or university. See what’s possible with digital technologies and online learning methods You’ll understand the nature of learning design in the context of both blended and wholly online learning, and will explore the Conversational Framework concept; the notion that the teaching-learning process is an interactive exchange of concepts and practice, using the ideas of social construction and collaborative learning. You’ll explore a range of digital tools and resources, including the Learning Designer tool, a free online tool to help teachers and lecturers design teaching and learning activities and share their learning designs with one another across all subjects. Optimise both blended and online learning methods for your students Through using this tool, you’ll learn how to optimise synchronous and asynchronous learning, and will explore how to implement videos, screencasts, forums, shared learning designs, polls, quizzes and to bring a selection of digital tools into your teaching techniques. You’ll assess a wide range of learning designs and formative assessment methods for both blended and online learning in order to achieve specific types of learning outcomes. Learn from teaching experts at UCL Institute of Education (IOE) and the community Throughout the course, you’ll be learning from teaching experts at the UCL Institute of Education. It’s rated as the number one education faculty in the world university rankings, and provides expertise in teaching and educational research across all sectors, primary to higher education, and across all main subject areas. Follow this Link for more information and to Register

Subject specialist Scott Hibberson shares crowdsourced top tips of effective digital practice from the recent ‘Myth-busting digital pedagogy’ workshops, delivered in collaboration with the FE sector. Details of how to get involved with Jisc’s digital pedagogy deep dive working group are also included.

Featured channels have recently been added to the ClickView exchange that you may have missed. In the featured channels area - under exchange, you can now access videos that have been shared by our colleagues in colleges and schools. Videos are added to these channels regularly, they cover many topics, including but not restricted to: Business Administration and Law ESOL and Language Learning Nautical Butchery Food and Hospitality Creative Industries Teacher Development Engineering Drawing Computer Science Click on the links above to access, or navigate to them under exchange when you log in to ClickView. Also don't forget we also have access to the Blended Learning Consortium library of videos - this (and much more) is found under Libraries, once you are signed in to ClickView. All ClickView resources can be added to your Moodle course or Teams channels. Check out the ClickView Training Channel for more help adding interactions and embedding the resources into Moodle or Teams.

To support your transition back to the classroom, our Teaching and Learning webinar series has been designed to support you throughout the summer term. With expert guest presenters from across the UK, this series provides valuable tips and actions that staff can take to ease the transition back to the classroom, and make things easier on students. In our 45-minute training webinars, you’ll learn how to: Use video for face-to-face or blended learning approaches in 2021 Use ClickView resources to help structure engaging lessons Use interactive videos for formative assessment Use ClickView to support teaching strategies including your wellbeing programs For this Summer’s Teaching and Learning webinar schedule, we’re joined by the following guest speakers: Helen Baker, Lauren Stalker, Dr Asha Patel, Scott Hayden, Joanna Maclean, Sian Sievwright, Nikki Lyons, & Phil Whitehead: 30 March - Using Video for Assessment 22 April - Integrating Mental Health into the Curriculum 27 April - Editing and Clipping Video Content in ClickView 28 April - Using ClickView with Google Classroom 5 May - Teaching Online Masterclass 6 May - What Makes for Great Video Learning? 13 May - Using Video Inside and Outside of the Classroom 19 May - How to Create and Embed Flipped Learning into Lessons 10 June - Planning for the New Academic Year? Don't forget that this webinar training series is free. Register now for the sessions that suit you best and don’t forget to bring along any questions. We look forward to seeing you there. Register for free Did you miss an earlier session from our webinar series? Catch up now via our Training Channel. Regards, The ClickView Team

Our latest release, named after Steve Jobs, includes some really exciting user-friendly features and updates. We’ve listened to your requests and can’t wait for you to explore this live new release. An overview of Jobs Edit video metadata Being able to edit metadata in your Workspace has been one of your most popular requests. Our new page lets you customise your uploaded video content. The ability to edit or amend auto-generated caption files means your videos will also be more accessible. Share Movies + TV Content with students You can now access Movies + TV content directly from your VLE platform or integration, such as within Microsoft Teams. This feature streamlines the process and will save you time. Watch the video on our website. As always, thanks for sharing your valuable feedback. It helps us continue to improve the ClickView user experience. Learn more about Jobs

Tammy Woods ClickView Advisor In conjunction with Ayrshire College, we are excited to showcase some best practice in the use of ClickView across the college sector. Learning Technologist, Kevan Scade and Art Lecturer Chris Mackenzie of Ayrshire College will be joining me to talk about the college's use of ClickView for the arts and showcasing the fantastic new Featured Channel - "Drawing with Chris Mackenzie". This interview style webinar is great for lecturers looking at collaborative learning across the education sector. Creating and Sharing Content on ClickView - Presented with Ayrshire College Friday 26th February – 11:00am – Register Here You may also be interested in our upcoming wellbeing webinar, In this session, Dr Asha Patel, Clinical Psychologist, CEO and Founder of Innovating Minds, and ClickView consultant will discuss anxiety and emotional literacy. ClickView and Innovating Minds Presents: Wellbeing for Students Thursday 25th February – 03:30pm – Register Here Both webinars will be recorded and a copy of the recording will be sent to all registrants. Kind Regards, Tammy Woods, ClickView Advisor

Ready-made lessons created by ClickView to support you in lockdown. Throughout 2020, ClickView continued to update their remote teaching resources with the latest content. You can access all the most up-to-date ClickView resources from anywhere. Find the latest releases for each subject area here. We’re confident this will give all learners the best chance to be engaged and thrive during this time. Remote teaching webinar, 20 January: Getting students to participate and answer questions is hard in a classroom environment, but can feel nearly impossible via distance learning. Join ClickView for a webinar on effective questioning and listening hosted by teacher, best-selling author and EdTech 50 consultant, Carmel Bones.

eLearn Magazine is a quarterly online magazine brought to you by Open LMS. It is a community initiative covering a wide range of topics such as: Online Proctoring Universal Design for Learning Academic Effectiveness Learner Engagement Education Insight Plus much more This magazine looks at these topics from a global perspective, which is so important in this industry as we really are a global community. Open the eLearn Magazine