Teaching Room Technologies

E-Learning isn’t just web-based learning – it also includes the use of technology for live, face-to-face teaching.

The lecture theatres and teaching rooms at QM are undergoing substantial refurbishment, and in most spaces you can now use a range of technologies to enhance your teaching.  Additionally, there are other teaching room technologies you may have access too (or which we can provide) which you can also use.

We can help you with:

  • Technologies available in many teaching rooms at QM
  • Tools that you can bring in to teaching rooms and use there

Technologies in QM Teaching Rooms

We’ve been involved in the Teaching Room Refurbishment Project which has invested heavily in ensuring that students are taught in well-equipped modern spaces.

Rooms now commonly feature teaching ‘kiosks’ from which you can use a web-enabled computer connected to the ‘Teaching Service’ (from where you can access e.g. discipline-specific software), DVD drive, document camera.  Some rooms are also enabled for lecture capture.

For details about what technologies are available in which spaces, see this page by Teaching Room Facilities.

Other Teaching Room Technologies

We maintain a watching brief on other useful tools, such as Smart Boards, tablet PCs, mini video cameras and personal response systems.  We will build information about these tools on these pages over the course of the year, and we also post articles about their use on this site.  Below is a selection of articles we’ve written about using these and similar teaching room technologies.

We can give you advice and demonstrations about using technologies available during a teaching session, such as audience
response systems, tablets, interactive whiteboards, visualisers and other kit now available in QM’s lecture rooms.

Currently, we’ve been working with several Schools on the use of ‘clickers’ or personal response systems.  If you would like to know more about these, please get in touch.

We can also loan you a set of 80 PRS handsets, a tablet PC, Flip video cameras, or a Mimeo system for on-the-go Smartboard functionality.  Please get in touch if you’re interested in the above or in exploring your own use of teaching room tech.

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January 20, 2011 Need a little help? E-Learning Production Service launched

We are very pleased to announce the launch of the E-Learning Production Service to help staff across the College turn their e-learning ideas into real projects.

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January 27, 2010 What’s going to happen tonight?

As I’m about to leave for the day, I can’t help but wonder what’s going to happen this evening. What am I talking about? Well obviously the much talked about announcement sometime today (5pm on the west coast of the USA?) of the eagerly awaited Apple tablet computer of course…what else? I’m not really interested* [...]

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January 20, 2010 Visualisers and Q-Review

Many of you will have noticed Visualisers appearing in more and more lecture theatres around campus. They’re, in my opinion at least, a fantastic technolgy. They are extremely simple to use and have the potential to open up a whole new array of materials to a lecturer. They’re also very much under-utilized. (As a brief [...]

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November 9, 2009 Training Session: Ask the Audience

Although not a new technology, audience response systems have been gaining in popularity recently. This session will give participants a chance to try out a particular audience voting system, gaining experience of the types of activity that are possible and allowing them to think about whether this might be a useful technology for their own teaching.

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May 7, 2009 Special offer on TurningPoint audience voting system

If there’s anyone out there who’s got access to a bit of money and is interested in getting an audience voting system, there’s a special offer on the TurningPoint system from TurningTechnologies. Up until the end of May June 2009, you can buy one kit and get the second half price. The TurningPoint system is [...]

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November 20, 2008 Sharing Practice in E-Learning seminar in December

Educational and Staff Development are again hosting a series of E-Learning Case Studies. In these sessions e-learning practitioners from around QMUL will present their work and invite questions from attendees on their projects and methods. The first of these for the 08/09 academic year is on 8th December 2008 in the ESD Conference Room (FB [...]

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September 16, 2008 Workshop on interactive whiteboards and audience response systems

Netskills are running a one day workshop in November in Newcastle called “Dynamic Presentations for Interactive Teaching”, which will cover the use of interactive whiteboards and audience response systems. Including: Pedagogic implications of IWBs and voting systems Use within the curriculum, learning styles and good practice Producing exciting and dynamic lessons with these devices How [...]

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