Title: key terms
Course: Teaching with Moodle 2: Training, collaboration and reflection online

Information from session 1

Feedback shared by this category's questions, if partly right: 1

Q: Which of these examples would be an example of ILT use?
- Showing a PowerPoint presentation with a digital projector. (Correct. You would be making use of Information Learning technologies.)
- Using an overhead projector (No. An OHP is not an Information or Learning Technology resource.)
A: Showing a PowerPoint presentation with a digital projector.

Q: Which of the following would be an example of e-learning?
- Using a digital projector and showing a PowerPoint presentation (No. This is ILT not e-learning. The students are not engaged in the activity, they are passively watching it.)
- Students researching information using the internet (Correct. The students are actively engaged in their learning and are using the computer based technologies to do it.)
A: Students researching information using the internet

Q: Which of the following were suggested as benefits of using ILT or e-learning during the session.  Pick all that apply.
- Motivation (Yes. Students can feel motivated when they are taking part in their own learning.)
- Easy for the teacher (No! Using e-learning is not an easy option. It is just another tool available to us.)
- Interactivity (Yes. Students learn more when they are engaged and a computer-based activity can enable this.)
- Differentiation (Yes. We can provide alternative and extension activities to learners with the use of ILT.)
- Accessibility and inclusiveness (Yes. We can enable all learners to be included and have access to resources when using ILT as another tool in our teaching and learning toolkit.)
- Students don't need their teacher as much (No. We can offer extra tools with IT and also have additional activities but the teacher is still the main tool to enable learning)
A: Motivation; Interactivity; Differentiation; Accessibility and inclusiveness

Q: Choose the best definition of accessibility.
- Enabling access to resources providing additional technology or assistive software to meet a learners specific physical or learning need (Correct. Accessibility is about enabling access to resources with the use of assistive or adaptive technologies)
- To make resources easily available to learners. Eg: by putting them on to Moodle. (Although this will help all learners. Accessibility is about meeting learners specific disability needs.)
A: Enabling access to resources providing additional technology or assistive software to meet a learners specific physical or learning need

Q: Pick the best definition of accessibility in relation to learning activities.
- All learners to do the same activity (No. Equal opportunities is not about doing the same thing all the time. Some things may be need to be adapted. The goal is to achieve the same objectives.)
- Learners have equal access to learning (Correct. Some things may be need to be adapted. The goal is to achieve the same objectives.)
A: Learners have equal access to learning

Q: Which of these are health and safety issues.  Pick all that apply.
- Trailing wires (Yes and this is common when using IT)
- Staring too long at a screen without breaks (Yes and this is common when using IT)
- Getting bored of the same activity - eg: searching the internet all the time (Although this can be detrimental to learning, it is not a health and safety issue)
- Incorrectly adjusted chair (Correct. This can cause problems when sat a computer for long periods of time.)
A: Trailing wires; Staring too long at a screen without breaks; Incorrectly adjusted chair

Q: What is the main purpose of the SEND Act?
- To ensure that learners have good access to education, regardless of their disability (Correct. This can mean the admissions process or teaching and learning or when taking exams.)
- Providing extra resources for learners with disabilities. (This could be part of it but the overall purpose is to ensure good access to education.)
- It is just another name for the Disability Discrimination Act (No. It is an amendment to the act and specifically looks at education in relation to disability.)
A: To ensure that learners have good access to education, regardless of their disability

Q: What is our obligation to the SEND Act?
- To make reasonable adjustments to meet the needs of learners (Correct. Some adjustments might be too major such as incurring a prohibitive cost to the college / programme.)
- To make all adjustments necessary to enable all learners to take part in learning (No. We only need to make 'reasonable adjustments'. We need to ensure, where possible, we can enable all learners to be part of the learning process but some adjustments needed may be beyond the colleges means)
A: To make reasonable adjustments to meet the needs of learners

Q: The minimum font size that should be used in a PowerPoint presentation is 12.
- True (No. The minimum for PowerPoint is 28)
- False (Correct. The minimum for PowerPoint is 28)
A: False

Q: The minimum font size used in word processing is size 12.
- True (Yes - you should use at least size 12 font in all your word processing documents)
- False (This statement is correct - you should use at least size 12 font in all your word processing documents)
A: True

Q: If a student has a visual impairment that requires all resources to be enlarged, which of the following adaptive and assistive technologies could be used?  Choose all that apply.
- Screen magnifier (Correct. This will magnify parts of the screen, regardless of the type of resource)
- CCTV (Yes. This will magnify paper based resources onto a screen)
- Screen narrator (No. This will read the screen but not magnify it)
- Tracker ball (No. This is a resource to control the computer not view the screen)
A: Screen magnifier; CCTV

Q: Sticky keys allow a user to press a key and it will stay held down whilst a second key is pressed.  This is useful for keyboard shortcuts if you can ony press one key at a time.
- True (Correct)
- False (This statement is true)
A: True