Barracuda Bites provides quick ideas, tips and techniques for supporting teaching and learning in the classroom. Taken mostly from the Barracuda CD produced by the JISC Regional Support Centre Southeast, these e-learning bites provide the starting points for developing your own ideas for using diffe…
Adam Blackwood ( JISC RSC Southeast )
Use our Subject Review spreadsheet to easily determine how students are progressing on your course and what topics in the class are weak or confident. The spreadsheet is designed to be used in a 1 to 1 tutorial session with students and provides a complete class summary of how the group is progressing.. or not!! Available for FREE download from the Regional Support Centre South East website. www.rsc-southeast.ac.uk
Learn how to create a simple visual clock for display during part of your PowerPoint presentation when you would like students to spend a few minutes answering some questions on display. The clock takes only 2 minutes to put together. Simple to do... once you know how !
Adam shows how to create a special kind of text box in your presentations which allows you to capture the comments from an audience directly into your slide while still in presentation mode. The contents of the box are automatically saved in the PowerPoint slide and can be sent to students when the lesson has finished. Used creatively, the Discussion Box can be used in all sorts of teaching situations.
A visual outline of the New Barracuda CD which contains resources, links, templates and ideas for teaching and using e-learning to help. The CD is now in its 3rd production run with over 4000 CDs already being used across the South East and other parts of the UK as well. The New Barracuda contains updated subject links for over 20 different curriculum areas, more teaching ideas for using in the classroom, updated documents and resources and a lot more. If you would like details of this resource for e-learning, contact the JISC RSC Southeast on the support email address.. Support@rsc-southeast.ac.uk