Hawkesbury

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Events are shown in green, brown-bag lunch seminars are shown in black (BYO brown-bag lunch). LTAP refers to the Learning and Teaching Action Plan (www.uws.edu.au/ltap)

Overcoming challenges in teaching and learning: The use of a virtual health assessment for nursing students, Monday 12-1pm, HW-M1-0.25, Mrs Cathy Dickson

"I have just submitted my first university assignment and I think I am going to vomit." Supporting 1st year external students, Tuesday 12-1pm, HW-M1-0.25, Mrs Debra Moodie-Bain

Teaching ideas for lectures: How can we motivate students to engage?, Wednesday 10-11am, HW-G6-0.43 (LT), Associate Professor Roy Tasker

UWS lectures online, Wednesday 11am-12pm, HW-G6-0.43 (LT),  TDU, ITD and Assoc. Prof. Roy Tasker

What Indigenous students like and don't like about university, Thursday 12-1pm, HW-M1-0.25, Drs Lesley Kuhn and Robert Woog

Descriptions

Overcoming challenges in teaching and learning: The use of a virtual health assessment for nursing students
Monday 12-1pm, HW-M1-0.25
Challenges associated with introducing client interviews and health status assessment early in a nursing programme provided the impetus to develop new approaches to health status assessment. This presentation will use innovative methods to walk the audience through the application of a simulated interview to replace a problematic public interview assessment item.
Mrs Cathy Dickson

"I have just submitted my first university assignment and I think I am going to vomit" Supporting 1st year external students
Tuesday 12-1pm, HW-M1-0.25
This presentation demonstrates how vUWS can be used to create a learning community and support first year external students through their first semester at UWS.
Mrs Debra Moodie-Bain

Teaching ideas for lectures: How can we motivate students to engage?
Wednesday 10-11am, HW-G6-0.43 (LT)
This will be an interactive presentation where you will be asked to imagine you are one of many students with a range of backgrounds, motivations, and academic abilities, in a large group lecture. I will demonstrate some ways to: i. encourage peer learning, using cognitive conflict and student response units (SRUs); and ii. apply a practical, research-based theory for how we learn, and how you can use this as a basis for informing your own teaching, research and scholarship. The rationale for the presentation involved two aspects - the content, and the delivery. The content is a simple but powerful model for learning that any academic can use, to inform their teaching, educational research and scholarship. The delivery is intended to model the uses of SRUs, hints on lecture recording practice, and examples of peer learning in a lecture context.
Associate Professor Roy Tasker

UWS lectures online
Wednesday 11am-12pm, HW-G6-0.43 (LT)
UWS Lectures Online is a lecture capture system designed to record the audio and the visual presentations within an equipped lecture theatre. This system is being installed in the main lecture theatres across all campuses. These recordings can then be placed onto a vUWS site for student access. The session will cover general information about using this technology in 2009, hints from those who have participated in the pilot sessions in 2008 and examples of good practice.
TDU, ITD and Assoc. Prof. Roy Tasker

What Indigenous students like and don't like about university
Thursday 12-1pm, HW-M1-0.25
In our research we have interviewed indigenous students to establish what has been their experience of studying in the Social Ecology post graduate programs. We have utilised complexity theory for design of inquiry and selection of methodology. Via coherent conversations with students and staff we have collected a range of views which we are analysing using attractor and fractal narrative analysis. We will reason general conclusions from specific instances regarding educational principles and practice. (An LTAP Project)
Drs Lesley Kuhn and Robert Woog