 So, that's recording now, so it's a real pleasure to see so many of you joining us and a big thank you to Richard and Lucinda and the Active Learning Special Interest Group for putting this session on today and it gives a great pleasure to hand over to them for getting involved with the Active Learning SIG. Thank you Richard, thank you Lucinda. Thanks Carrie and welcome everybody. So I'm just going to share my desktop here. I'm using Nearpod today, so hopefully it'll come in if I've shared right screen. You can join Van Nearpod and hopefully it'll get this shared soon. You love it when the plan comes together, don't you? Okay, hopefully I'll try a different way to do it. It doesn't seem to be allowed me to share my screen, which is great fun. Anyway, we'll go to plan B at this point. So in the actual chat, I've posted a link to the Nearpod session I'm going to run through. So if you have another tab opened or another device, you can just follow along on your screen or on your device, okay? I was hoping to share it on the screen as well, but that's not going to work. So best laid plans and all that, so we'll just keep on going. Yeah, so you can watch the Nearpod link and you can follow on your device. I was going to share it on the screen as well, but that doesn't really matter. So yes, welcome. Do you need to share it for you, Richard? Yes, you can get working and share that and I just drive it from here. That'll be great. I don't know what's going on. Computers got the jitters. I had teams open earlier, so I think it's probably the history. So yeah, welcome. I'm, for those who don't know who I am, I'm Richard Beggs and I'm chair of the Active Learning Special UnderScript along with Elizabeth Lando from City University. I work at Ulster University, which you can probably tell from my accent. And I think Active Learning has been key to my practice for the last number of years and it's something we want to drive forward in particular across different sectors. But I don't want to spend too much time about who I am, but you can see from the slides there. I don't know who you are, okay? So you've got this collaborate pin board. So what I want you to do is on your devices, just give us your name, your role and what your interest is in Active Learning. So we'll get to know one another away, but I think what we try to do in our sessions is try and encourage a bit of Active Learning to happen, an activity to happen within them. So if you just want to go ahead and post stuff, then we can see carry typing, which is great. So the whole point of this session today is try and encourage others to get involved and do different things, and we'll get more to that later. But if you want to go ahead and just start posting stuff in there, here we go, we've got some coming through. Thanks to Cinda and Rob. Yes, Rob, I visited Northampton back a few years ago and saw your lovely campus and everything you've done there, it was great. Super. And I think the thing we try to do with the community is to get others from other sectors to kind of share a practice and learn from one another as well. So it's good to see that there's some colleagues joining and there's a colleague from Ulster there as well. Hey, Grant. Great. There's other things you can do in this thing. You can put photographs and like and different things in there, but it just breaks things up a bit. Right. I'm not going to spend too long on that. So I think most people have posted stuff up. If you haven't posted anything about it to you, please do it now before I move on otherwise you'll get dragged out of it. Okay. Great. So how did this all start? This all started because of the alt emails that come through and a colleague in City University of London, Elizabeth Orlando, was Korean, how do you use Nearpod with something a few years ago before COVID anyway. So I was going over to do a thing in digital storytelling at City and we arranged to meet up in a coffee shop and for those eagle-eyed people here will note that this is not a cafe in London, it's one in Paris, but it looked nicer than the ones that I could find in London. But we met in London and we had coffee and we came up with this idea for the special underscript to try and get others from different sectors together and to share a practice, not just the A.G., but F.E., a private sector, primary school, post-primary, those sort of things because we're going to learn from one another and I think sometimes we can get stuck just working in our own sectors and why was the focus active running? Well, I suppose I've been doing stuff around active running on apps for another few years, but we learn by doing, everybody knows that, we learn no matter what it is we learn by doing, and Hugh doesn't love a cute kid and she found a bit of weed in the garden. And the drive behind that was obviously from my own personal experience was the learning spaces that we had, although not exactly the guess, but a lovely learning space, were more traditional, set out in rows, those sort of things that it was about at that point trying to enable and facilitate active running to happen in these types of spaces. And that was the driver for me that pushed things forward and then when Elizabeth and I were talking, it was just about how we can actually share that and grow the community around that. And again, from my personal experience it was about trying to get different spaces designed up where people can interact with technology and active running in different ways. And the driver was our new campus in Belfast, you can see here the artist rendition which is open next week. And it's a fantastic space, but what we wanted to do was try and utilize technology and drive things forward and that was driving forward change at Ulster and others could learn from that and that's kind of started that practice with sharing outside the institution and then working with different colleagues from different sectors to try and build that community up and we've done that over the last couple of years and over COVID and different things and I think it's been really useful for people to have sort of talk and share a practice and find that you're not alone a lot of the time and other people can help and learn from one another. And for those who haven't had their lunch yet, I do apologize, it might make you a bit hungry, but it's the key thing about this is sharing and collaborating and across sectors and learning from one another, sharing and there's just that whole ethos throughout this this introscript that we want to get other people involved, we want to hear what you're doing, what fantastic things you're doing and give you a platform to share that so others can learn from you too. So this is what this is all about, it's about sharing, active learning and active learning. I know this is also active learnings around the learning technology aspects of it, but it doesn't have to be driven by the technology, it can also be you could be in a classroom writing stuff from whiteboards and using technology to capture that and then share it through the video, through some other platform. And yeah, that's what we're trying to do is get thinking about the kind of pedagogies around it and then technology that comes out of that. Rob, yes there is, just a meal for the grip, I've got that and then next week while I'll share that with you. Okay, we're going to do a wee activity here. So I want you to draw, this is where everybody gets terrified, it does not get brilliant drawing, I want you to draw what drives you to embrace active learning, what is it? So we'll give it a few minutes, we'll just spend on this and it could be because it makes you happy, okay, it could be anything you want it to be. You can draw, you can take, you can put an image up if you don't feel comfortable. So it's perfectly fine, I'm interested, this is the bed I always love to see what wonderful things people come up with and I know this this drawing tool is a bit rudimentary, yeah happy smiley face. Thanks Kerry, I think I was going to share my screen and draw something as well and I think it's nice that Kerry's done that so we can see something else doing it, kind of adds to it. Yeah, I can see them all coming out here, I'll go through and share them in a minute whenever everybody's submitted and the thing about this is it doesn't have to be a Picasso or a Da Vinci, it's just us trying to get across something visually, okay. So I've got a few submitted, so if I give you a few seconds here in our minutes and just submit it, if you're happy with it, they do, bro. Okay, I'll wait because if I start sharing these then your lovely pictures will be, if you don't submit they'll be gone forever. So I'll give you a few minutes and then just submit it when you're ready. Angelica, I'm not sure if you saw that the start things were used in the airport, so if you're doing that you should be able to see the little instructions there. It's great because I can see them all but I'll show them on your devices in a minute. Okay, one or two others just to submit, like I've only got a few minutes here to get up and run, but yeah it's, I love the comment from Chloe about the cigarette and I'll show you, I'll show you what that means in a minute. It's a party popper, not a great. So what I'll do, I'll start sharing these and you can you can start seeing them on your devices. Okay, so hopefully you can see, yeah, this is, I'm not going to say who done them, I don't think that's fair at this point, but yeah it's brain, thinking, chatting, happy, chatting, discussing and think that's it, it's getting people the social aspect of running and pulling that out, and then just making people happy, making you happy, making other people happy. Again, there's a consistent theme coming across here by making people happy or not making them fall asleep as brands put in here. Yeah, student engagement, interaction, better to directivity and I think none of us, well I'll speak for my own personal experience, I don't enjoy 3R lectures, I don't enjoy good delivering them, I never enjoyed receiving them, but when it's split up into chunks, my people are doing things, it's just, you get to put things in the context, you get to understand it and apply it and get to know your peers and learn from each other, yeah it's just, it's better all around for everybody and obviously in this tool as well, if somebody doesn't feel comfortable drawing, or it's too complicated to draw, they can get an image and put it up and you can see the cogs of how things work. I like this one here, joined up learning, learning together, accessibility, yeah it just gives that whole and plusive aspect and it makes it more designed for everybody, obviously depending on what way the session is at the end, but yeah and here's the party popper, not a fancy cigarette, yeah so stop people all sleeping and make them enjoy themselves and the last one is just a funnel, okay so super, thank you for doing that and it does, it does kind of break them or not, maybe you have to listen to me so much when you're actually doing stuff, so what I want to do now is talk through the process of getting involved, want to get these involved, there'll be opportunities, I've got questions section at the end so you can chat and talk and say whatever you want, I want to get more people involved outside the steering committee and be more of a community that's shared in your own practice, so we've come up with a form, okay it's a simple form, I'll link to that in a second, so just it's a Google form, your email address is captured, stick your name in and if there's any particular dates, if we'll make more sense in a second, want to tell you the opportunity, but if you're delivering a webinar they're from one to two o'clock, 45 minutes and 45 minutes questions and they can be as many as you want to do as long as they're aligned to the themes we'll get to in a second and then any preferred contact details, a different email address or a mobile or whatever it might be, and then what activity would you want to do, is it a webinar, is it a blog, we've got a blog, we're looking for people to write guest blog posts, we've done a Twitter chat a week a while ago and that was very successful and if anybody wants to get involved in that or ideas for those sort of things, please come forward, there's no such thing as a silly idea, we just want to help support people sharing their practice around active running, there's nothing else you can think of, anything other exciting thing you want to do with a new type of platform or whatever it might be, yeah I just want to hear, gives a small description of what it is and then just take the themes, these are the themes around the special under script and any themes there that you think that aligns because it really for this purpose it needs to align to the script, otherwise there's other grips you go and share it with, yeah so learning environments, physical digital, apps, technologies, you can see them all they're active learning, the core one there, or authentic types of assessment because if people or what we follow a constructive alignment approach, I'm sure you're all similar institutions at Ulster and obviously assessments key to that and if you're getting people to produce authentic things that are for their careers going forward they're actively doing it through the assessment, so yeah active running comes through very strongly in that, so one thing we do ask for is some sort of interactivity and that can be as simple as getting people to post emoticons in the chat or indeed use another tool or use the polling tool or something like, because I've used Neopod here, with a Neopod I could then also embed VVox or Mentimeter as well, so people only join through one device or one platform and then everything's pulled together, so whatever it might be would encourage interaction and it might just be the interaction that is just using the chat at certain points, that is up to you but we'll want some interaction at certain points so people aren't getting them at board. The thing in here and keep engagement is agreement to be recorded, we would literally like these sessions to be recorded to be shared for others, so we'd prefer it if you would agree to be recorded, although if you wish it for not to be recorded that would not be a barrier but we would, our preference would be for it to be recorded, okay so that's the link to the form okay, so you should be able to get access to that link now, if not I'll post it in the chat as well, so you I'll probably just post that in the chat now so you have access to it but it should come up in your devices but I'll put it in as well, we'll do no harm okay so please, anybody wants to get involved just go ahead submit it and we're fairly flexible when it's going to be just with you, the platform we use is at this moment in time is Blackboard Collaborate for webinars and things that's recorded and it's put on the alt YouTube channel as well so yeah it gives a wider impact there's the link to the, I'll put that in the chat as well, I've got it in the next slide actually, a link to the mailing list if anybody wants to get, join up the mailing list, we're getting that up and running more, if anybody wants to get involved in actually writing their mailing list and volunteer for that that's another option, if anybody wants to get more involved they can and it's really just advertising things to do with active running every single day again, wider than this group just anything that's going on, about the best to try and encourage other communities, people who can engage with that as well so yeah that's the mailing list so you can just sign up for that and that will be approved fairly quickly I just want to just advertise this slightly, not a big advertisement but I was involved with some chapters and see some colleagues on here as well were involved in this and this is a fantastic resource for active running, if anybody wants some inspiration this is a great open online book, let's try and practice across the IT and further a while and there's some people from Ireland that's really in different places have submitted so yeah if you're looking for some inspiration there's definitely some good stuff in here, there's sections around technology as well so yeah I would encourage you to have a look at that because really very good, a lot of effort within that, there's the vlink that's from the Active Learning Network, okay so you can see a bit here about the the active learning, we've got a web presence here, the links there so you can go and have a look, there's recordings of webinars that were done last year, you can see the committee members as we flip grid things are, there's resources to get people thinking about active learning in there as well and then the blog, but we're briefing that blog up over the next year with a lot of guest posts, definitely if anybody's interested in the blog posts get involved here and we'll get you up and on that and that feeds into the wider alt blog as well as far as I'm aware you can correct me if we're on carry there, I don't think it does at the moment, I think that it's separate from it will yes that's the plan okay and then so you can link through there, so what we'll do now, we'll open it up and this is meant to be a graphic for questions but it looks about odd, actually I want to say it now in reflection, so anybody, anybody want to grab the megaphone and chat, grab the megaphone, we're not fussy here about people talking so we might stop the recording now if that's okay Carrie, yep no problem I'll stop that now, Richard just a request from Chloe for the