 Felly ydych chi'n gwybod i amser ymlaen i gael ymlaen i ddim. Felly hwnna o'r tyfn yn ymlaen i gael yma ac am ymlaen i gael yma. Felly dyna, rydyn ni'n Sam Clark a dyna o'r Ymlaen i Llyfrgellfa ym Llyfrgellau Lent Cymru. Fyny'r bod ychydig o'r gweithfawr, sydd ydych chi'n gwybod? Yn gyda'r gweithfawr o'r gweithfawr, rydyn ni'n gyffredig i'r cym-erau. ychydig ym mwyaf o'r hollwch! Ac mae'n gofyniech yn eich meddwl. Mae'n gofyniech. Mae gennym eich meddwl. Ac mae'n gofyniech i ddiddordeb yn yw atweud. Mae'n gofyniech i'w meddwl, ac mae'n gofyniech i'r meddwl i'r meddwl i'r meddwl i'r meddwl. Mae'n gofyniech i'r meddwl i'r meddwl i'r meddwl. A'r problemau bod ydy'n gofyniech ddiwedd ymlaen o'r hollwch, I teach second year undergrads and they don't know even what self-reflection means so I had a student ask me what do you mean by this and it's really hard so to be a second year undergrads and not know how important this practice is for furthering your own learning development I think it's a real big issue and also when I look at when I've been asked to self-reflect it's really dry and hard work so it's something that you know it was quite a big issue and I'm going to take you on a little bit of a journey about my dissolution of the technology through all my hands up in the air and I'm going back to paper based stuff So my primary background is in serious games, game based learning, gamification on that side and I am a massive geek so I at home I play Densions and Dragons which has anyone played before? Yeah? Okay does anyone not know what it is at all? Okay that's good but for the benefit of anyone at home it's a tabletop role playing game where you create a character, you move around and you tackle problems and so I'd been faced with this problem at work and one evening I was playing Densions and Dragons and actually I just wanted to share it because I'm not playing tonight because I'm here which leads my group to be very angry at me and I said well I'm actually quite scared of talking here and the response was you'll be fine just imagine them all as cobalds getting incinerated So there we go, you are cobalds now So I was playing Densions and Dragons and then I was looking down at this character sheet which is kind of what makes up your character, you're asked to kind of build your character around a set of attributes and one of the things that just jumped out at me all of a sudden was this idea of I could use this, I could get them to reflect on these strengths and weaknesses that they have but in maybe a little bit more of an interesting way, something that might reach out to them and of course then I was looking at the monster manual and I was thinking oh monsters, beasts, all of those issues that we're faced with, maybe we can turn this into a way that they can identify the problems that they're having but turn them into beasts and actually look at what is the best way that they can combat them and then because I'm mental and I try and do everything all at once, I went away and tried to do just that, tried to solve everything all at once and as you can see from this this was kind of a weird paper, I'm going to try and get them to do teamwork and they were going to set goals and they were defined their epic quest and lots and lots of different things all in one thing but came up with some resources for this paper based version which was the character sheets and the attributes had been kind of changed to reflect things like motivation and collaboration so where did they kind of rank themselves on these different areas and then I built these monsters taken from creative commons images where I just cut off a load of them and then got them to pick one that they thought represented them that week, that issue that they were having and then they would reflect on that in a paper based journal and so we did some research, we kind of asked them what they thought about that so it went through ethics and we did some focus group interviews and just as I had suspected I tried to do too many things and it's not that they weren't good because the responses that were coming out of it was that they liked all of the stuff but it wasn't supported enough in each of the different areas so I tried to focus down a little bit about okay well what is this, what is it that they really liked and they really liked the monsters so they thought it was creative so they really liked that idea of being able to build monsters around these issues that they were having and then to reflect on how they could combat them but the problem was that what they were saying was that it was creative but not creative enough and that's the problem I kind of put my creativity into it but it was limited because there was only so much that I could do and actually that autonomy was not coming from them they didn't have that full scale well actually and one of the comments was well maybe none of those monsters reflect how I'm feeling at the moment I'd like to build my own and I was feeling right okay that's a big challenge how do you do that and the other comment that they wanted was that they wanted it to be online so this was a really really big thing is that they wanted to have this practice of sharing in this online space that they could access anytime that they weren't going to lose bits of paper and things like that and I'm a fan of rapid prototyping because I've spent so long in the past designing serious games, digital serious games which just take so much time and energy and money and then at the end are not used because we've moved on you know it's not fit for purpose anymore and one of the really great things about working in a multi disciplinary lab is that there are loads of people doing really interesting things and one of the areas that some of my colleagues are working in is open education and introduced me to some really great people who are doing awesome things and that's Adam Levine I hope I said the right and Brian Lam and they're kind of you know we're working quite closely and they've done these really amazing things about giving more power back to educators and students about the work that they're taking control of what they make and they've made these slots which stands for smallest possible online learning tool which I think is great it's a really cool name and they so we had this discussion about how we could maybe merge some of this disciplinary stuff into something combating this problem that I was having and so it was suggested that maybe this true collector theme that a slot could be useful and I was looking at this and thinking oh actually that kind of looks like the monster manual just an online version it's got a collection we can use that to put all of the beasties in but I had a bit of an issue with at first the fact that it's anonymous because that scares me for a multiple reasons mainly because I initially wanted to use it as a way to log in and for myself to track what people were doing and also there's this whole conversation about duty of care and usually anonymous voices on the internet well it opens up a lot of issues but I tried to look at this from another way especially trying to touch on some of the stuff that was being said earlier about actually giving a voice to those people who are not heard because it's those ones that shout latest in the class that I know they're not doing well or they want this stuff but what about the people who are actually suffering in silence and that power of being anonymous online I think actually what I would like to do is try and turn this into a power of good so that one of the other issues that I have with my students is that they all hate each other they all come from again multi disciplines because I only have them for 11 weeks it's a 11 week course and it's mostly based on vocational skills and things like that they don't like working with each other and there is a real sense of competition and I've seen this more and more now and what I wanted to try and do is kind of grow this power of empathy and actually well do you realise what else is happening with your fellow students in class I mean you might look at them and take a stab at them for I don't know being late or whatever but no one really knows what else is going on behind closed doors and I have some students or I had some students who we got all the way through the 11 weeks and then the final week they said I couldn't make it to class because of X, Y and Z and if they had come to me before that I could have helped them but it was so late at that time I couldn't help them at all and I wonder if partly it's that because there's no conversation or they don't want to have that conversation face to face so maybe this anonymous way of collecting issues could actually be used to identify those most in need at an earliest stage. So it kind of looks like this at the moment and it's new iteration and because we do just test and then rebuild so we'll see I'm going to use this as part of a study now coming September end of September with some so not just my class but also some students from the University of South Wales hopefully University of Salford and again any of you are more than welcome to help I would be most grateful actually if you have students and I'm going to just go through the tool a little bit and show it anyway from what it does. So kind of building on the idea of this is now the new monster manual as you can see the glaring fish biscuit eater which is the animated GIF is a bit jarring but you know but what it is essentially is that people can post their issues in here but they're asked to reflect in them as interesting creative beasts and they can either get the images from creative commons or they can draw their own. That's no problem but what I'm asking them to do is reflect on what it is what is causing this issue but also to identify how to potentially combat that as a thing. So you said it is anonymous they can put a character name or you know they can use a real name if they want to but it's it's not required but the other nice thing is that you can comment directly back on it and again in an anonymous form if you like and then offer advice directly to them. There is a way that they can when we build a beast that they can ask for direct contact between you and so you can actually pick up if there is someone who is really struggling and needs direct contact you can do that as well. But they're also asked to tag the beast about what is the what is it a confidence issue and if you clicked on that there's none in there at the moment but you know there's well being so there's a coupling well being and actually I think part of this tool so I'll be using it to look at students on the how they're dealing with the course but I know some of my colleagues at the universities are going to use it for them or pastoral care so looking at that well being side which is massively important and a growing conversation that I think we need to kind of address. And I'm just going to so it's got all of the reasoning why behind it. I'm going to create a beast and I'm going to invite you to create your own beast as well if you want to. And I was thinking about this last night and true to I think the conference I'm going to call it the Imp Oster. I'm going to not select an image but let's get one from Creative Commons. Creative Commons and I found one last night so I hope they don't mind me messing with this. Oh they're different ones. Okay we're going to use this one but if you just do a search for boffers and beasties it will come up anyway. Thank you. Online so I'm not going to do that because I'm going to take too much time doing that but basically you can put the title you can upload your image there. You can set yourself as anonymous if you want. You describe your beastie and how you would combat that. You can enter sort of where you've got your image from because obviously it's really important and the license if it's under Creative Commons. You can check what that beastie represents so it's really easy then to just pull up a list of all of those. Different ones so maybe it's in confidence and we've given them a create your own as well which is great. And then you can tag your beast as well so we're using this to track different cohorts and universities using this tool. So if the University of South Wales is going to use it for putting loads of beasts in then they're going to use their own tag and it means that when you're back then here you can just click on that and it will bring up all of the beasts associated to your own course. So in short this is open for everyone to use. I'm happy for anyone to use this or the templates and do your own thing. If you want to create pesky pixies or whatever that's fine. And also the fact that this whole looking at this open technology in this way has really kind of given me a little bit more of a love of it because I was very very just disillusioned with the time the resource that the effort that takes to create something. But actually I think you can create something really simple and this kind of cross disciplinary stuff has really helped my own practice and understanding and I hope it gives a voice now to the students who are feeling like we're kind of leaving them behind. I don't know potentially but that's it. So the students that we asked there was actually no bad comment about it. Potentially I don't know maybe it's because usually the self reflection we asked them to do is very like I said reflect in a journal. They actually really enjoyed this kind of creative side. Now there's the cohort that we tested with our design students but they are multidisciplinary so they come from the business school. They come from health. They come from all over our faculty. So it wasn't really an issue across the cohorts but I think this is going to be part of what we're doing next. So you know do they find it childish or do they actually respond really well. I need to do it with larger numbers to really understand what's going on. I think. Can this be embedded into the VLE. I have no idea. Sorry. It's one of those questions that has been in the back of my mind of you know with this. I'd love to see a more supportive platform with some creative things in it. And I've certainly been thinking about what can this be like an add on to what we do. But I quite like the fact that anyone can go on it as well and offer advice or support. That doesn't mean to say that I'm also massively aware of the moderation. And you know like said we do have a sense of duty OK. So what happens if a student says that there's suicidal on it. You know there are there are issues with this being anonymous. And but you know these are things that are all questions that we're going to be addressing. So so yeah any other questions from the room. I'm John Wilson the CEO agenda. We're a technology company that focuses on education and learning. We build manage and operate platforms for education for video collaboration. Externally we prefer to work with what we feel is ethical industries. Obviously education teaching learning health care. 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