Saturday, 3 March 2007

The Quiz

Here is the quiz the executive are doing if you fancy having a go...

University Executive

Future of e-learning workshop – Quiz

In small teams, answer the following questions - you have 10 minutes to answer all 12. Use the technology available to you and consider strategies that make the best use of the team's time and skills. The first 4 include hints to get you started. After 5 minutes you will have the option to "buy" more hints, either:

· up to 3 further hints (chosen randomly) - each hint will cost you 1 mark off your total score

· or you can buy 1 hint to a specific question for 2 marks

There is a prize for the winning team.

1. What is the name of Sheffield Hallam’s virtual learning environment? 1 mark (hint: discussion paper or site)

2. What is the first picture you see if you enter “Sheffield Hallam University” into flickr and who shared it?
(hint: www.flickr.com) 2 marks

3. According to one of the student quotes, what did using the Discussion Board lead to the student doing in town?
(hint: discussion paper) 1 mark

4. What is information fluency?
(hint: site new learning styles) 1 mark

5. What two “technologies” does the Horizon Report tip for adoption in one year or less? 2 marks

6. How many people in the room have with them a phone that can take a picture? 2 marks


7. According to Wikipedia when was the last time Sheffield Hallam was “In the news”? 1 mark

8. What topic was discussed in the last Sheffield Hallam LTA podcast? 1 mark

9. Which US college produces the “Mindset list” and what has always been a verb to the class of 2010? 2 marks

10. How many residents were there is Second Life on 15 January 2007?
3 mark bonus – how many yesterday?!? 4 marks

11. Should Danni apply to do business studies at Sheffield Hallam? How many people responded to her? 2 marks

12. How many hits to the Sheffield Hallam Blackboard site on 25 December 2006?

1 mark

Total marks - 20

11 comments:

smodge said...

Not fair, can we see the discussion paper too??

smodge said...

Competitive spirit is brewing here on level 7, there is talk of trading information with interested parties.. any takers?

gs said...

tsk tsk, whatever happened to the blended approach smodge? you should have a copy of the discussion paper on paper - I'll sell you a copy for a (v large) bar of fruit and nut...

Helen said...

We have the discussion paper but how many people in the room have a mobile phone that can take photographs?

smodge said...

Ah.. that discussion paper..
Managed to procure it without handing over chocolate too.

Brian said...

My quick answers

1) Blackboard
2) Main Building - Evil Yoda
3) analyse people's gait
4) What isn't information fluency these days should be the question.
5) User-created Content and Social Networking
6) 4? Hard to tell if you aren't in the room
7) 3 August 2005
8) Social Networking
9) Beloit College - google
10) 15 Jan - ?
today - 4,304,904

11) yes, 3 people did
12)

Brian said...

I managed to find the economic statistics for second life, but no total number of residents was included that I found.

Andrew Middleton said...

I didn't realise there was a podcasting question. Sorry, I've updated the podcast with news from BarcampScotland - an informal Unconference that I attended on Saturday in Edinburgh. If you listen - the bag pipes are authentic!

Susannah said...
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Susannah said...

Woah there Brian, I get 4,306,472 residents in Second Life right now.
Does that mean more than 1000 people signed up in the last hour?
Seems like a good recruitment rate!

Brian said...

It would seem so. I just copied and pasted from their site. Depends on if the site is real-time info, or updated every x hours just how much it progressed. I'm guessing its only updated occassionally, because I just checked 5 minutes later and it is the same as when you checked. If they are really doing 1500 an hour, it should have already gone up, right?