Wattle Archive available from Saturday, 13 April 2013

Dear Wattle Users,

Wattle Archive is now available as at 14:00 AEST.

The work carried out to relocate Wattle Archive to new hosting infrastructure has been completed successfully.

If you have any questions, please contact wattle.support@anu.edu.au

With regards,

Danielle

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Danielle Anderson

Manager

Wattle Business Solutions Group
Centre for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching

Chancelry 10T, Ellery Crescent
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200

+61 2 6125 1087
+61 2 6125 4023danielle.anderson@anu.edu.au

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Office for Learning and Teaching Grants: Round 2

Dear Colleagues

We are  pleased to advise that Round 2 of the 2013 OLT Grants is now underway, closing on 2 August 2013. 

CHELT will be holding an Information Session on Friday 19 April, for staff who are interested in developing Seed Grant and Extension Grant proposals for this round. There will also be further workshops on developing and writing grant proposals. See the Awards & Grants calendar on the CHELT website for dates of all sessions. For staff who submitted an application in Round 1 2013, the results of this round are not yet known. 

Please note that the 2014 Round 1 dates have been brought forward, and will close on November 4, 2013. From Round 1 in 2014, applicants will be able to develop Expressions of Interest for Innovation and Development Grants, and the Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Grants, or full proposals for Seed Grants or Extension Grants. Round 2 will only be open to full proposals invited from successful Expressions of Interest in Round 1.

With the recent announcement that the major grants programs and the fellowships programs of the Office for Learning and Teaching have been listed as Category 1 on the 2013 Australian Competitive Grants Register, we anticipate that the OLT Grants will become an important source of research income to ANU.

If you or your colleagues intend submitting a OLT grant proposal, either with the ANU as the lead institution or with colleagues through another institution, we ask that you submit the Notice of Intent to Submit an OLT Grant Application, linked from the 'Four step guide for ANU applicants' on the CHELT website. The DVC(A) has requested that from 2013 only staff who have submitted an Intent to Submit by 13 May 2013 will be endorsed and permitted to proceed with submitting to the OLT. 

Kind regards

Lyn 

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Lyn Stevens

Promoting Excellence Administrator

Centre for Higher Education, Learning & Teaching (CHELT) 

Chancelry 10T, Ellery Crescent 

The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200

T: +61 2 6125 9486

F: +61 2 6125 4023

W:  http://chelt.anu.edu.au/

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Notice of Wattle outage

Dear WATTLE Users,

We had an unscheduled WATTLE outage between 05:45am and 06:33am today (12/4) . 

This outage was due to a network connectivity problem at our hosting provider's data centre. 

This issue has been resolved. However, if you experience any further issues, please contact Wattle Support – wattle.support@anu.edu.au

With regards,

Danielle

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Danielle Anderson

Manager

Wattle Business Solutions Group
Centre for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching

Chancelry 10T, Ellery Crescent
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200

+61 2 6125 1087
+61 2 6125 4023
danielle.anderson@anu.edu.au

CRICOS Provider #00120C
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SEL and SET surveys

The Student Evaluation of Learning surveys have been ordered for the College. Links to the surveys will appear automatically on the My Wattle login page. However, as many students bookmark the URL for each Wattle site, they may not notice, so please draw their attention to the survey and explain why they should complete it.

If you intend to administer a Student Evaluation of Teaching survey, you will need to order it now. More information about this is available on the ANU Planning and Statistical Survey Unit's page: http://unistats.anu.edu.au/surveys/selt/academics/.

Using iPads for educational purposes

Hi everyone

Here is the next ACT’s upcoming face-to-face FREE workshop for those interested J

Integrating iPads into your classroom for learning support and special ed
(one day FREE face-to-face workshop)Overview
The iPad has turned even experienced technology users into beginners again! How do you make the BEST app choices when there are over 500,000 to choose from? How do you successfully embed iPads within your learning support programs? How are they best used in special ed classrooms and for students with autism?Presenter: Greg O'Connor

When: Thursday 2 May 2013

Where: Canberra Institute of Technology, Reid Campus (room location will be emailed to the registrants closer to date)

Registration: http://www.trumba.com/calendars/NVELS (select the 'Integrating iPads into your classroom for learning support and special ed' workshop details on 2 May from the calendar > select 'Sign Up' link at the bottom of the overview page to access the registration form)

Program
9:00 - 10:30am: Customising the iPad to accommodate the needs of diverse learners
10:30 - 11:00am: MORNING TEA
11:00 - 11:45am: Adding content to your iPads to support students in special ed classrooms
11:45 - 12:30pm: Adding content to your iPads to support students with learning support needs in mainstream classrooms
12:30 - 1:30pm: LUNCH
1:30 - 2:15pm: Adding content to your iPads to support students with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
2:15 - 3:00pm: Creating customised content on iPads: Students and teachers as authors
3:00 - 3:30pm: AFTERNOON TEA
3:30 - 4:00pm: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater! The place for other technologies in your classroom toolkit
4:00 - 4:30pm: Taking your learning further…today is just the beginning…

Further information including ACT upcoming events and archives of previous workshops/sessions are available at: https://actnationalvetelearning.wikispaces.com/Home

Cheers

Jyothi

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Call for applications: 2013 ANU Education Grants Round 2

Dear colleagues

Applications are now invited for Round 2 of the ANU Education Grants schemes for 2013. As all funding was not allocated in the initial round of the ANU Education grants, a second round of funding has become available for the following schemes:

ANU Linkage for Learning and Teaching Scheme

This Scheme is designed to support strategic connections between ANU and organisations outside of the higher education sector to develop new opportunities for ANU coursework students to extend their research or professional skills in internships, work integrated learning experiences or industry projects; to translate insights from funded ARC Linkage Projects or category 2 or 3 funded research projects into education innovations for coursework students, including online learning; or to develop new opportunities for industry partners to work with ANU staff and coursework students to renew curriculum to met changing workforce or social needs. Note that each College may submit only 2 proposals for the Linkage grants.

ANU Vice Chancellor's Teaching Enhancement Grants 

The VC Teaching Enhancement Grants support innovative and creative initiatives and projects, that seek to enhance teaching practice and education at ANU. Priority will be given in 2013 to projects that promote flexible learning and/or assessment practices that exemplify innovation in the application of the ANU assessment policy.

The funding guidelines and application forms can be found at http://chelt.anu.edu.au/awards-grants/grants/anu

Applications are to be submitted to teaching.grants@anu.edu.au by 4 June  2013, 10am.

Please circulate this information to staff in your colleges.

Kind regards

Lyn 

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Lyn Stevens

Promoting Excellence Administrator

Centre for Higher Education, Learning & Teaching (CHELT) 

Chancelry 10T, Ellery Crescent 

The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200

T: +61 2 6125 9486

F: +61 2 6125 4023

W:  http://chelt.anu.edu.au/

CRICOS Provider #00120C

College of Science Teaching Forum

Improving student learning from research experiences in undergraduate courses 

12.30-1.30, Thurs 11^th April, Colleges of Science Seminar Room 2 (top floor of the Science Teaching Building #136)

Susan Howitt and Denise Higgins

What do your students think research is?  What students learn from research experiences and research led education often depends on what they think the experience is about.  To help them gain the most from such experiences, it is important to both understand what they think and help them see research in the context of your discipline.  In this workshop, we will share our experiences with tracking student learning in research projects through the use of learning logbooks to help make their thinking explicit.  This research is supported by a grant from the Office of Learning and Teaching, TREASURE (Teaching Research: Evaluation and Assessment Strategies for Undergraduate Research Experiences).  We will present our findings so far and seek your input into understanding student needs and background for research in different disciplines.

A light lunch will be provided.  Please RSVP to treasure@anu.edu.au  by COB Tue 9^th April for catering purposes.