Nicola Pallitt:Greetings Robym:) Please tell us what you do and where you’re from
Nicola Pallitt:Same for folks joining us in the next few mins
Robyn:Oh! Hi. 🙂 I’m an instructional designer for the Red & Yellow Marketing School in Cape Town.
Robyn:Just getting in early so I can be sure everything works!
Nicola Pallitt:Hi everyone (from Daniela, Bronwyn and Cheryl)
Sindile:hi
Sindile:I am.Sindile an.Educational.Researcher and manager of the Disability Unit at Unisa
Nicola Pallitt 2:Nice to meet you Sindile:) I’m part of the e/merge Africa team and ed tech lecturer at CILT, UCT
Jakob Pedersen:Good afternoon – I am Project Manager for e/merge Africa
Nicola Pallitt 2:Please introduce yourselves folks, we love to see who is joining us
Jakob Pedersen:Today in southern suburb of Cape Town, Wynberg
Robyn:Reading you loud and clear. 🙂
Lize:Hi everyone, I’m Lize Terblanche, a publisher at Pearson
Gabriel:Hi all
Gabriel:I am attending meeting with a colleague Nchimunya
Tony Carr:Hi everyone
Gabriel:and Mulyata from EVelyn Hone College
Gabriel:I cant get any sound
Tony Carr:Welcome Nchimunya !
Cath:~~wave~~ hi everyone !! 🙂
Tony Carr:Tony Carr, educational technologist at UCT
Antonio Chimuzu:Alo everybody
Tony Carr:Sound working for everyone?
Lize:yes thanks
Cath:Yes – sound is loud and clear 🙂
Tony Carr:Gabriel?
Nicola Pallitt 2:ok will do
Nicola Pallitt 2:We just posted a pic of all sitting here on the facebook event page
Gabriel:hi Tony can get sound clear
Tony Carr:great
Nicola Pallitt 2:@Gabi sound in 1 minute again
Nikki Schaay:hi all nikki from school of public health at uwc.
Alicebz:Hi all
Gabriel:Hi nicola
Jakob Pedersen:recording on!
Cath:Yes- loud and clear 🙂
Gabriel:I am with Mulyata from Evelyn Hone College coordinator for ODL
Gabriel:& Nchimunya Head of Section ODL @ Evelyn Hone College
Nicola Pallitt 2:Thanks for the intros, please keep them rolling
Nicola Pallitt 2:Did you enjoy Bronwyn and Cheryl’s videos?
Gabriel:yes on the ED Tech programme?
http://meeting.uct.ac.za/emergeafrica 2:Yes Nicola. they were inspiring videos
Nicola Pallitt 2:no in the fab event page for this event
Nicola Pallitt 2:facebook* not fab
Gabriel:ok missed those
Nicola Pallitt 2:but it will be fab too:)
Robyn:Nicola, it can be both 🙂
Nicola Pallitt 2:https://www.facebook.com/events/762421763929299/
Nicola Pallitt 2:True Robyn:)
Nicola Pallitt 2:playlist with both vids to catch if you didn’t get to watch them earlier and want to watch them after this session: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgNzHqwrWe5zs44d7pxwAgvK-KxTOoWaf
Nicola Pallitt 2:These images probably look familiar to folka in SA
Nicola Pallitt 2:folks*
Nicola Pallitt 2:So if colleagues from other parts of the world have questions, please fire away
Nicola Pallitt 2:yay open educational practices:)
Caroline Magunje:Hie I have lost sound
Gabriel:what made learners readily accept online teaching & assessment?
Gabriel:ok tahnks
Gabriel:thanks
Alicebz:What sort of incentives were used?
Alicebz:Marks work!
Gabriel:were learners eager to use Blackboward?
Robyn:Interesting – I work with adult learners (professionals) who don’t seem to see 2% as enough incentive to engage, most of the time :/
Robyn:Thank you!
Gabriel:how did you get your boss to support you in using Blackboard?
Gabriel:Thank you
http://meeting.uct.ac.za/emergeafrica 2:Did you have cases of students resisting the new approach and how did you deal with it?
Tony Carr:Did you have students who supported the FMF shutdown in 2015 and 2016 taking part in the course online?
Tony Carr:great
Tony Carr::)
Nicola Pallitt 2:Another great free tool for making narrated presentations https://screencast-o-matic.com/download
Nicola Pallitt 2:What’s in your toolbox folks?
Karen Ferreira-Meyers:Hi everyone, my connection is really bad.
Robyn:h5P is a fun, free, easy to learn tool to insert interactives into online notes and videos, etc.: https://h5p.org/
Simone:Thanks Nicolla
Nicola Pallitt 2:Recording will go on YouTube if you lose us Karen:)
Nicola Pallitt 2:Thanks Robyn:) Any other free tools folks want to share with colleagues?
Antonio Chimuzu 2:h5p is great
Antonio Chimuzu 2:More t ools? – Google Classroom
Nicola Pallitt 2:Catherine Cronin’s presentation can be viewed on the e/merge Africa YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX43J1i0prk
Nicola Pallitt 2:Free open tools suitable for doing blended learinng with low-bandwidth or offline
Nicola Pallitt 2:Like students can download a small file of a narrated presentation by a lecturer – watch on phone, etc.
Antonio Chimuzu 2:OwnCloud is a good tool. no Internet needed.
Nicola Pallitt 2:And a conversation we’re reflecting on now and invite further discussion on tomorrow:)
Nicola Pallitt 2:Wow – thanks Antonio, will check it out
Tony Carr:feedback!!
Tony Carr:too many mics open at the same time!
Nicola Pallitt 2:okay will sign to folks here lol
Nicola Pallitt 2:SA lecturers: How did you respond during FMF?
Nicola Pallitt 2:Outside SA: Have you been in a similar situation where contextual situations forced you to innovate?
Tony Carr:fine
Chris Busang:Its fine
Tony Carr:And student protest and university shutdowns aren’t limited to SA
Gabriel:what did you do to studnets who did not have the technology?
Gabriel:and to those who had but did not know how to use it?
Nicola Pallitt 2:and colleagues in the room – what does innovation mean to you?
Nicola Pallitt 2:innovating with blended learning
Sindile:what happened to your students with special need? were you able.to.accommodate them?
Sindile:yes. thanks
Gabriel:what did you do to studnets who did not have the technology?
Caroline Magunje:Very impressive indeed
Olufemi Olubodun:Hi everyone
Gabriel:i am
Chris Busang:Will join tomorrow
Alicebz:Great presentation
Nikki Schaay:Thank you all facilititating this session.
Antonio Chimuzu:Thank you for sharing this presentation.
Gabriel:Thank u for teh presenation
Robyn:Thank you everyone!
Alicebz:Bye
Olufemi Olubodun:Bye
Irene Maweu:Thank you for a great presentation
Caroline Magunje:bye
Irene Maweu:Bye everyone and see you tomorrow
Cath:Thanks for the presentation 🙂
Olufemi Olubodun:Will catch up this interesting presentation in the recording