{"id":6899,"date":"2022-12-23T05:34:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T09:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tlsrv.net\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2024-08-20T17:12:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T16:12:39","slug":"exceptionally-creative-learning-designs-and-powerful-practice-from-university-of-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/exceptionally-creative-learning-designs-and-powerful-practice-from-university-of-southampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Exceptionally Creative Learning Designs and Powerful Practice from University of Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our final post of 2022, from the University of Southampton is a fitting example to round off the year. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centre for Higher Education Practice&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/scene\/1661842732458442753\" target=\"_blank\">Advent Calendar<\/a> is jam packed full of helpful tips and an example of powerful practice in supporting their team.\u00a0We\u2019ve featured the University&#8217;s learning designs and experiences before in this &#8216;Virtual Field Trips&#8217; example <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/next-level-field-trips\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, to widespread acclaim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this post, we hoped to provide some inspiration for the year ahead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jednet\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jednet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jed Gibbs MA<\/a>, has also provided some helpful background information and context. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Click the tags to explore their interactive Advent Calendar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" data-original-width=\"1920\" data-original-height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/view\/scene\/1661842732458442753\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.thinglink.me\/jse\/responsive.js\"><\/script><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/view\/scene\/1661842732458442753\/accessibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view the accessible version of this amazing advent calendar<\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>This year we have enjoyed the transition to using ThingLink for our interactive graphics at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Southampton<\/a>. The ThingLink Certified Creator Course was an excellent grounding and I regularly recommend it to colleagues. So when we looked for a way to create our 2022 interactive advent calendar for CHEP (the Centre for Higher Education Practice) we chose ThingLink and we have not regretted it. With assistance from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/digital-learning\/contact-us\/staff\/jea1y13.page?\" target=\"_blank\">James Allen<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/digital-learning\/contact-us\/staff\/md4.page?\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Deeprose <\/a>from our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/digital-learning\/what-is-it\/index.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital Learning Team<\/a> we were able to address accessibility issues early in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been great having the creative freedom to add sounds and images to each day on the calendar, including some as animated GIFs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"tl-cta-block\"><h3>Schedule a personalized demo to find out more! <\/h3><p>If you\u2019d like to see how ThingLink can be used in your learning designs or communication please book a video call with Louise for a friendly chat.<\/p><button class=\"tl-button tl-button--white tl-button--small tl-cta-block__button\" data-link=\"https:\/\/meetings.hubspot.com\/louise165\/louise\">schedule a call<\/button><\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>One issue has been how to release each day\u2019s content without also exposing tomorrow\u2019s. The workaround we adopted was to have a clone of the calendar. This clone was the draft version which held all 24 days\u2019 content, access to which allowed contributors to check they were happy with their entry before it went live. Once approved it was copied onto the live calendar at the appropriate time and the icon colours for the date reversed to white on red to indicate that it was available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Future dates could have been simply part of the background graphic, but instead we had some fun by adding little messages such as \u2018no peeking!\u2019 or \u2018can I open the sherry yet?\u2019. These proved popular with many colleagues looking ahead through all of them and commenting in our Teams channels &#8211; contributing rather nicely to our engagement statistics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stats were also useful to gauge when we might need to remind busy people about the calendar &#8211; each time our Comms Officer Yvette Melia included links to the calendar in emails we could use the stats to track the effectiveness of the promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next year we plan to raise our ambitions to include 3D objects and video clips and perhaps even a little walk-around using the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/unity-plugin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ThingLink Unity Plug-In<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:22% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1516273161055.jpeg\" alt=\"A profile picture of Jed Gibbs MA from the University of Southampton\" class=\"wp-image-6904 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1516273161055.jpeg 438w, https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1516273161055-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1516273161055-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1516273161055-432x432.jpeg 432w, https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1516273161055-324x324.jpeg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jednet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jed Gibbs MA<\/a><br>CHEP Digital Resources Developer<br>MA Interactive Production<br>ThingLink Certified Creator<br>University of Southampton<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our final post of 2022, from the University of Southampton is a fitting example to round off the year. 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