Rachel Powild

eLearning Technologist for the University of Manchester Worldwide - on higher ed & tech, games, mobile for learning. Get in touch for personal account.

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

made this in response to the OECD report: you don't need the best educational bg to be prepared to study #highered https://t.co/FTqiTRLNvx

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@JotFormSupport yeah it seems to be back working now, thanks :)

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@JotFormSupport your site is down, are you aware of this? Any news on when it might be back up?

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

@Polldaddy Hi, the information on this page: https://t.co/RFLGQ7YkTI is out of date (no non-js option now) and I think since you changed your URLs to https://t.co/vSgrsCDGZj embedly is broken - can you help?

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

@JotForm your site is down - are you aware of this? any news on when it might be back up?

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

@hannahnicklin @KommanderKlobb I wonder whether @OUFreeLearning would be able to use the material you’ve written and maybe maintain it with the @OpenUniversity Politics team in @OU_FASS faculty?

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@OUstudents @OpenUniversity the MAODE is finishing?! I got my PGCert a while ago but had to put the MA on hold while I finished my BSc Open, sad that I won’t be able to complete it - is it being replaced with anything similar? @OU_Education @IETatOU @PraxisWels

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

Had a great time at Create a pewter Manchester bee keyring — @airbnb Experience https://t.co/YPTsfLZMVi

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

@OUstudentsVoice mad: how bad TM352 was, module team not fixing serious errors in online materials/assessments
sad: reduction in module choices, less variety
glad: everything online =i can fit in study/tutorials whereever i am, whenever i can, on the train, in lunch break or whilst in hospital

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

@telfest unfortunately missed the livestream last week due to urgent project - are any of the streamed sessions available to catchup on? I can see from Thurs 3pm onwards but really interested in @chrisblackmore and @kayguccione 's talk on MH on Tues

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

@redbrickteam looks like there's been some really valuable discussions, are any of the talks available online at all?

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

@Ed_Dev_QMUL there's an emerging trend of cultivating user empathy in User Interface/UX design practice that I think educators could learn a lot from

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

#CSPI18 agree with that question about empowering students to express their academic ideas in other media (than just writing), though to go back to the thing about digital natives - we can't just assume that bc they are web publishers personally, they can do this academically

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@KathR the Access modules at the OU do this really well as well I think (I say immodestly, having worked on them), but agree that it should be throughout a degree, not just foundation level

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

@liz_isabella use Tweetdeck/Tweetbot or another 3rd party app = no adverts \o/

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

#CSPI18 helping international Pharmacy students with their language skills at UoM has seen massive improvement in parity of achievement after a @CHERIL_UoM project

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

@PraxisWels do you have a list of names for the people doing lightning talks? would like to be able to credit the ideas i'm noting down/responding to and not catching them all at the beginning :)

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

#CSPI18 books are technology, writing is technology, lecture halls are technology, exam papers are technology - just because something is established doesn't mean we can't be critical of it as much as new technology [ht Mark Childs (are you on twitter?)]

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#CSPI18 we could have done with the learning guide authors being involved in direct teaching on TM352 recently, I think this is something OU students will increasingly expect (ie from experience MOOCs, other institutions)

[Rachel Powild @rachelpowild]

@dresdeb @marcuselliott "that wasn't one of the words Jo!" 😂