jobadge: @AJCann @stujohnson suggested tag for unconference on 22 May #uollts ?AJCann: @jobadge @stujohnson #uollts sounds good.jobadge: RT @dajbelshaw: Some great ideas for using Twitter when presenting here:http://bit.ly/xdcOY @stujohnson @ajcann useful for #uollts?llordllama: @stujohnson Aha! Excellent - looking forward to it #uolltsAJCann: @stujohnson Is http://tinyurl.com/lts2009 #uollts UoL only or open to all?jobadge: RT @stujohnson: Learning and teaching in the sciences unconference - 8bookings already since last night http://tinyurl.com/lts2009 #uolltsstujohnson: There is indeed wifi in the George Porter Building #uolltsstujohnson: http://tinyurl.com/lts2009 back by popular demand and x18 bookingssince Monday evening. Best get planning it then #uolltsstujohnson: Wish I'd looked at booking form tracker before worrying input at#uollts Looks like there'll be plenty of stuff to talk aboutAJCann: @stujohnson How many booked for #uollts ?cjrw: @stujohnson did you count me in or do I need to fill form? #uolltsllordllama: Do we get name badges, that's what I want to know! #uolltsstujohnson: That's the #uollts emails sentllordllama: Just noticed @stujohnson 's put a screen-cap of the menu fortomorrow's #uollts on the web site. Now that's one way to lure people in!jobadge: @stujohnson @llordllama what is a low calorie sarnie when it's at home?#uolltsstujohnson: @jobadge @llordllama I have no idea what a low calorie sarnie is.Marmite possibly? #uolltsAJCann: #uollts twitterfall testjobadge: ok let's try that with the right tag #uollts ooo what does twitterfalllook like then? lots of coloursAJCann: #uollts http://tinyurl.com/pyzwcwstujohnson: Bit nervous about #uollts this morning http://tinyurl.com/lts2009 Hopepeople are in a chatty/ideasy moodllordllama: In the office, and about ready to sleep. Hope to find some energy by#uolltsSTLock: Have fun all you folks at #uolltsllordllama: Wondering if everything (even the low-cal sarnies) is on a stick today#uolltswhittybus: @llordllama glad you are going #uolltsstujohnson: Off to shuffle tables round #uolltsstujohnson: Got twitterfall working in GPS18 #uolltsjobadge: @richardbadge hurray glad you are feeling happy. Won't see you atlunchtime, will be at unconference #uolltsAlexM11: @stujohnson good luck! Looking forward to following and nipping in nowand again on #uolltsstujohnson: We now even have signs and stickers. No expense spared! #uolltschriscane: Sorry not to be able to make it in person - marking and MSc admissionsstuff to do :-( #uolltsstujohnson: Can someone bring a pen please! #uolltsAJCann: @stujohnson You mean we don't get free pens at #uollts ?stujohnson: @llordllama wrong tag! #uolltsjobadge: are we starting at 10.30? #uollts @stujohnson seems very organisediamhelenharrop: RT: @AJCann If you fancy a break this morning, can you dosomething for us: http://tinypaste.com/be6eb [tech + assessment event] #uolltsllordllama: You assume I'm talking to you ;) #uolltsiamhelenharrop: @AJCann hi Alan, if there are outputs from #uollts I'm v.interested in seeing them. No time to follow along alas but will check in latersimonjball: RT: @AJCann If you fancy a break this morning, can you do somethingfor us: http://tinypaste.com/be6eb [tech + assessment event] #uolltstraceymadden: RT @simonjball: RT: @AJCann If you fancy a break this morning, canyou do something for us: http://tinypaste.com/be6eb #uolltsmsars: All ready for #uollts with filtered stream in place in tweetdeck. I should

have consulted menu earlier and brought coordinated lunch.jobadge: @msars is your lunch high calorie then? we are apparently having lowcalorie sarnies :-) #uolltsjobadge: RT @AJCann: If you fancy a break this morning, can you do something forus: http://tinypaste.com/be6eb #uolltsllordllama: @jobadge On a stick #uolltsdsugden: #uollts Good luck everyone at Science Assessment sessionjobadge: right off to unconference #uollts via photocopier and internal mail :-)there should be two of me by the time I arrive.ffolliet: @stujohnson #uollts can I get the conference bag please?llordllama: Where abouts is this room for #uollts exactly then?stujohnson: @llordllama chemistry building then follow signs - 2nd floor #uolltsstujohnson: Will shortly be excusing myself froM faculty LTC to get to #uolltsllordllama: Ah. The smell do chem building takes me back to being a student#uolltsplanetchemistry: #uollts Greetings from sunny Ulster. Hope the unconf. goes well.Let me know when the coffee break is so I can check email.jobadge: got my cup of tea #uolltsjobadge: Anyone listening in can you say hello to the unconference and tell uswhere you are? #uolltsAlexM11: Hello #uollts I'm in Brum talking educational games research, butfollowing closely and awaiting news of low cal sandwichesllordllama: @jobadge i'm over here! Oh, that's not what you were meaning...#uolltstraceymadden: Greetings from the Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre(based in Hull) #uolltsllordllama: @stujohnson Introducing the day #uolltscjrw: #uollts wot no biscuits?simonjball: Hello #uollts Following twitterstream from lovely Yorkshire whilewriting about inclusion+SL.Hoping for great insights into tech/assessmentjobadge: @stujohnson is starting us off, twitterfall is on big screen in the room#uolltswhittybus: Hi there #uollts from the office at Clinical :-)AJCann: What is an unconference? #uolltslaikas: #uollts Hello, greetings from laikas, medical librarian and PhD medicalbiology. Searching in between and waiting 4 the unconference 2 startllordllama: @ajcann Uncomplicated? Unrully? #uolltscjrw: Backchannel up on screen at #uolltsmsars: Hello to all at #uollts from the Life Sci Dept at Imperial College inLondonAJCann: We need 2 screens @ #uollts !cjrw: Feedforward: keepads for picking topics at next unconference #uolltsllordllama: Now we're working out what topics to discuss #uolltsAJCann: Deciding 1st round of topics for #uolltsllordllama: So not much love for information literacy issues in the room,colour menot suprised. #uolltsjobadge: Choosing first round of discussion topics #uollts peer assmnt, blackboardfor lab assmnt, keyboard exam, why do we assessmsars: @cjrw Used PRS for selecting topics to discuss in past. Answer was always"Plagiarism detection" so I stopped using that technique. #uolltsjobadge: On blackboard assessmnt for lab prac's table - Eran is leading and hasbrought handouts - wow :-) #uolltscjrw: Peer assessment was first past post but lost out on single transferable vote#uolltsAJCann: NOT talking about plagiarism @ #uollts - hurrah!llordllama: Is it what teachers and students gain? Yeah that sounds good to me#uolltsstujohnson: I'm in the group on peer assessment (currently) #uollts

stujohnson: Is peer assessment valid/reliable #uolltsstujohnson: That was supposed to be a question #uolltscjrw: Assessment FOR learning mentioned on at least two tables #uolltsAJCann: Lab reports don't validate student understanding #uolltsjobadge: Yes peer assessment can be reliable and valid and a great learningexperience #uolltsjobadge: Assessment for learning here on lab reports too #uolltsllordllama: Best phrase so far has to be 'enforce learning' #uolltsmsars: @jobadge #uollts. We use 3 types of Bb assessmnt for lab pracs. 1. quiz. 2.autograde excel sheet. (1& 2 postprac) 3. whole prac in Bb.traceymadden: Worth looking at WebPA (web based peer assessment)http://twurl.nl/nqamvq #uolltscjrw: Are we expecting GENUINE original thought from undergrads? #uolltscjrw: @jobadge counted your table already #uolltsllordllama: What do students get from assessment? Top choice-the degree #uolltsAJCann: Anyone use MCQs for practical assessment? #uolltsjobadge: @msars trying to think about discrimination and feedback #uolltsmsars: @cjrw They should be thinking thoughts that are new to them, notnecessarily original in the world. #uolltsplanetchemistry: @AJCann #uollts we use MCQ for pre-practical assessment...students do some assessed work BEFORE they come to lab.llordllama: We're drawing lots of arrows on the sheet, can't twitter them tho#uolltsAJCann: @msars How does your Bb quiz work in practicals? #uolltscjrw: @msars key word there probably thinking not just cut-n-pasting #uolltsstujohnson: Don't forget to move when u want to #uolltsmsars: @AJCann We use MCQs post-prac. Open book with lab notes. Good notes andunderstanding --> good marks. #uolltscjrw: Information literacy and assessment - assessed tasks in evaluating sourcedocs #uollts my sprogs do that in historymsars: @AJCann Whole prac in Bb when using online tools, e.g. bioinformatics. MCQsand also (more tricky) manually marked short ans Qs. #uolltsllordllama: Kudos to @crjw for the props to information literacy there and keyrole in avoiding plagerism #uolltscjrw: Taking prompt from @stujohnson to swap tables #uolltsAJCann: Turns out several people are using Bb for post-practical assessment#uolltsAJCann: Does anyone use pre-practical MCQs? #uolltsmsars: @cjrw Absolutely. Assessment must allow demonstration of thinking,analysis, criticism, construction - not just regurgitating facts. #uolltsmsars: @AJCann Yes, for some pre-prac work - do calcs in advance, get feedback -->make up solutions correctly in prac. Not nec summative. #uolltsplanetchemistry: @AJCann "Does anyone use pre-practical MCQs?" Me! me! me!..anyone else?? #uolltsAJCann: @AJCann #uollts we use MCQ for pre-practical assessment... students dosome assessed work BEFORE they come to lab. (via @PlanetChemistry)stujohnson: Now hearing about a pilot project to let students take exams on alocked down pc #uollts Anyone any experienceEingang: @AJCann What is a pre-practical multiple choice question? #uolltsmsars: @AJCann And not just MCQs. Use short answers a lot with regex checking.Also matching Qs e.g. for process planning. #uolltsAJCann: @Eingang Quiz before practical class #uolltsHallyMk1: @AJCann Malcolm Andrew in Pharmaceutical Microbiology at DMU uses ajava-driven practical tutor at Level 2 #uolltsmsars: @stujohnson #uollts We use lockdown PCs for students with SEN requirementsto take exams on PCs. These are essay exams --> print out scriptsllordllama: Talking about how assessment and grades from regarded unis and hencenew students being attracted #uollts