Organized by Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)
Series Abstract
Integrating technology in course design is a creative process that uses learning theories and frameworks, course planning, and content expertise to create a seamless learning experience. In this series, we have curated three new apps to help you facilitate and engage your students. You will have the opportunity to experience and try various apps and tools, discuss with colleagues the challenges and opportunities of these technologies, and be inspired by the different ways to integrate these technologies into your teaching. Join us in this interactive workshop series!
Time : 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Venue : Rm 321, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus
Speaker: Donn Gonda, Instructional Designer, CETL
Abstract
Storytelling can be a powerful tool to enhance students’ communication skills. These stories can help students to understand complex and abstract concepts by allowing them to immerse themselves and be part of it. Teachers can create interest-provoking and compelling cases and scenarios that will enable the students to reflect on their learning and perception to judge and act on the situation. However, creating automated non-linear cases can be challenging and time-consuming. In this workshop, we will use an open-source storytelling app called Twine to create these scenarios that can be customised to your context. We will work through a model example to let you experience and build your own non-linear story.
About the speaker
Time : 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Venue : Rm 321, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus
Speaker: Aki Leung, Teaching Associate, Division of Integrative Systems and Design, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Abstract
The metaverse, which covers the internet and extended reality, has been gaining popularity in recent years. Big tech companies like Meta and Microsoft are working on building technologies that can help us interact in these virtual spaces. As educators, how can we make use of the metaverse to extend our learning environment? And how can we integrate it into our teaching?
In this workshop, participants will:
• Experience metaverse first-hand through spatial
• Learn ways to incorporate metaverse in teaching and learning
• Explore the possible roles of how metaverse plays in tertiary education
About the speaker
Prior to her current role, she held managerial positions at social enterprises and non-profit organizations in Hong Kong and Los Angeles. She is experienced in strategic partnership development, community engagement and program development. Her work experience spans the fields of public health, civil empowerment and maker movement.
Time : 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Venue : Rm 321, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus
Speaker: Nicole Tavares, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, HKU
Abstract
At the workshop, Nicole will be sharing with participants how she makes pedagogic use of Perusall in the undergraduate and postgraduate courses she teaches at HKU and the impact this has had on student learning. Perusall is a free web-based social learning platform developed by physicist Eric Mazur from Harvard University to promote learner engagement as students read collaboratively and interact with one another on texts. Intrigued by the affordances of the platform allowing for multimodal texts to be uploaded for social annotations and discussions, Nicole has been experimenting with its use in facilitating a variety of synchronous and asynchronous learning tasks on her courses. These may come in the form of negotiation-of-course-expectations activities, collaborative lesson planning, peer feedback, textual and material analyses, discussion on assignment exemplars, video annotations and many others. Participants will be given the opportunity for some hands-on practice and will hear from students about how Perusall activities enrich their learning. Nicole is keen on exploring with colleagues in different disciplines across the University how Perusall functionalities could be creatively utilised to optimise learning outcomes. The workshop will also be relevant to educators and researchers who are interested in finding out how the platform could be used as an avenue to promote ‘Students as Partners’ (Healey et al., 2014) and ‘Community of Inquiry’ (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2000) initiatives in teaching and learning.
About the speaker
Nicole has published in the areas of online teaching and learning, 21st century skills, using educational technologies in promoting teacher development and English learning, good ELT and CLIL practices, and Interactive Assessment.
Nicole has received multiple teaching awards, notably the HKU Teaching Innovation Award (2020), her Faculty’s Emergency Remote Teaching Award (2020), and HKU Outstanding Teaching Award (2015). She is keen on experimenting with innovative pedagogies and is acknowledged for her creative design of collaborative activities that maximise student voice. She enjoys professional dialogues with educators on how research informs practice and has initiated several professional development activities within her Faculty and beyond.
