This is a workshop to get you started on using the Mentimeter website confidently in your teaching as a way of engaging with your students. www.mentimeter.com This workshop will benefit anyone who wants to develop and build on online teaching methods, innovative learning, online delivery and student engagement.  Trainer background:   This session is led by Dyddgu Hywel. Dyddgu studied BSc (Hons) Design and Technology Secondary Education leading to Qualified Teacher Status' at Bangor University, she graduated with first class honors.  Her early career started as a Design and Technology A Level lecturer at Coleg Meirion Dwyfor, before being appointed as a Design and Technology teacher at Rhydywaun Comprehensive School.  She’s now been working at Cardiff Metropolitan University for the last seven years, working as a senior lecturer in the School of Education, with her expertise in innovative teaching, student engagement and technology enhanced learning. 

At this uncertain time it can be a daunting task to manage time effectively. As many of us adjust to working remotely, while others learn to adapt to working in a different atmosphere on campus, time management can be challenging. This is a practical opportunity to review your personal style in terms of how you manage your work, people, administration, work-life balance and so on. Contents: Virtual working and managing various work pressures along with the challenges of care duties etc. have stretched most of us lately. This workshop will be an opportunity to think about these new pressures and the impact on our time, as well as an opportunity to consider ways of working more effectively both individually and as a team. At the end of this workshop trainees should be able to: • Identify problems and produce an action plan. • Identify patterns of procrastination. • Work better through effective planning and prioritising. • Make effective use of your diary/personal planner • Streamline/get rid of piles of paperwork and burdensome e-mails. • Make effective use of time with others.   Mari Ellis Roberts Mari is a Human Resources Officer at Bangor University and is responsible for in-house Staff Development provision. She also manages the University's Motivation and Mentoring scheme and runs personal effectiveness workshops such as time management skills, effective goal setting etc.  

This workshop will be helpful to anyone who wants to present information in alternative, and interactive ways, whether as part of a research presentation or in teaching.            Workshop Objectives Develop a higher understanding of well-known software Taking Microsoft to another level Understanding that adopting simple techniques can lead to higher standard Managing the software so it works for you, and not 'captivating' Content Word: Create an interactive content page Useful tools with the Welsh language Translation tools Relevant equipment for referencing support At the end of this workshop, trainees should be able to: Create interactive presentations that look and work differently from the ordinary with confidence Understand extended techniques for creating projects, long essays and effective reporting Consider tying the elements of each project together in an interactive portfolio, and show confidence in this process Presenter: Dyddgu Hywel Dyddgu studied BSc (Hons) Design and Technology Secondary Education course leading to Qualified Teacher Status' at Bangor University, she graduated with a first-class honors. After three enjoyable years as a Design and Technology A Level tutor at Coleg Meirion Dwyfor, she was appointed as a Design and Technology teacher at Rhydywaun Comprehensive School. She’s now on her seventh year as a senior lecturer in Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University, and has been there for over seven years. Her expertise varies in the effective use of teaching methods, the use of technology, engagement and student health and well-being.

This workshop will be helpful to anyone who wants to present information in alternative, and interactive ways, whether as part of a research presentation or in teaching.     Workshop Objectives Develop a higher understanding of well-known software Taking Microsoft to another level Understanding that adopting simple techniques can lead to higher standard Managing the software so it works for you, and not 'captivating'   Content Design unique templates to suit your presentations Deliver innovative work Identification of new equipment outside the common tools Effective use of PowerPoint for multi-purpose At the end of this workshop, trainees should be able to: Create interactive presentations that look and work differently from the ordinary with confidence Understand extended techniques for creating projects, long essays and effective reporting Consider tying the elements of each project together in an interactive portfolio, and show confidence in this process Presenter: Dyddgu Hywel Dyddgu studied BSc (Hons) Design and Technology Secondary Education course leading to Qualified Teacher Status' at Bangor University, she graduated with a first-class honors. After three enjoyable years as a Design and Technology A Level tutor at Coleg Meirion Dwyfor, she was appointed as a Design and Technology teacher at Rhydywaun Comprehensive School. She’s now on her seventh year as a senior lecturer in Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University, and has been there for over seven years. Her expertise varies in the effective use of teaching methods, the use of technology, engagement and student health and well-being.

This workshop includes a discussion about competing definitions of open access and the types of licences applied to open access publications. It considers the benefits and impacts of open access over traditional publishing methods, particularly in a Welsh language context and uses specific examples to demonstrate impacts in different sectors and for different stakeholders. Finally the workshop will consider the growing shift towards open access and what that might mean for the future of publishing in Wales and beyond. Participants will gain an understanding of how open access publishing works, how copyright affects accessibility and how different open licences limit or permit reuse. They will develop a better understanding of why open access publishing can be more beneficial than traditional commercial models, in certain cases, and how open access promotes equality and increases engagement with the Welsh language. This resource is presented by Jason Evans, National Wikimedian at the National Library of Wales. He has championed Open Access within the institution and more widely in the culture sector. Evans works with Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, to share the Library’s digital collections openly and to encourage engagement and participation in open crowdsourcing projects. Working closely with the Welsh Government he has led a number of projects to develop Welsh language open access content and data. 

The aim of this training  is to introduce effective and reproducible data analysis techniques in two open source programming languages, R and Python. This resource is presented by Dr Geraint Palmer who is a Welsh medium lecturer in the School of Mathematics at Cardiff University. His research in the field of Operational Research mainly involved modelling public services as queueing systems analytically and using computer simulation. This work applies topics such as probability, graph theory, data analysis, and software development. Content: A series of 10 videos (5 in R and 5 in Python), on the following topics: Downloading, installing, and starting the software Reading in data and producing summary statistics Plotting Combining and re-shaping data Hypothesis testing An example data set A practical task to coincide with each video On completion trainees should be able to: By working through this video series and the tasks, you will be able to start to analyse data with either R or Python. Specifically, you will know how to read in data to the software, produce summary statistics, plot, combine and reshape data, and carry out hypothesis testing.

Gwerddon Fach publishes short academic articles to give a wide audience a taste of the latest research by leading academics from Wales and beyond As well as publishing popular versions of longer articles that are published in Gwerddon's own e-journal, people are welcome to contribute short articles of around 600 - 1,000 words about any research that interests a wider audience - whether it's a report on their own and their colleagues' latest research, a response to major discoveries, public policy and current affairs or discussions, a report on the proceedings of an academic conference, or a simple introduction to complex research topics. If you are interested in contributing an article, please download the guide (see below) and contact Dr Hywel Griffiths, Assistant Editor Gwerddon: hmg@aber.ac.uk. Website: https://golwg.360.cymru/gwerddon

Gwerddon is a Welsh-medium academic e-journal which publishes research in the Arts, the Humanities and the Sciences twice a year and which conforms to the academic guidelines of the Research Excellence Framework 2014.  The journal has two main aims, which are to stimulate and encourage first-class academic discussion across as wide a range of subjects as possible through the medium of Welsh and thereby to create a store of scholarly material for the use of research students and academics. Gwerddon is funded by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Website: http://gwerddon.cymru

This workshop will be of interest to anyone wishing to use social media networks to support their teaching. The resource includes three presentations: Social media for teaching Instagram Snapchat and Tik Tok Social media for educating Facebook Twitter and YouTube social media  

This training is intended for early-career academics and research students. The resource will provide a full overview of the REF (Research Excellence Framework) in a Welsh context. The resources are presented by Professor Delyth James. There is a focus on REF 2021, and the 6 workshops which form this resource will address the following:   What is REF? – overview    Which academics are included in the REF? Units of Assessment Research Outputs (quality v quantity) Impact Cases Environment statement How does REF relate to PhD students and early career researchers? Summary of implications for Welsh-language researchers

This is a short workshop that shows you how to use PowerPoint to record voice over and video for presentations and training sessions.

Welcome to Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol's Virtual Research Conference. Here you can access everything to do with the Conference: There are two parts to the conference: 1. 4 live papers will be submitted on July 1 (10: 00-12: 30) -  the conference recordings will be added below soon. 2. In addition to the live presentations you will see on 1 July, 13 Welsh research students and academics have recorded presentations in advance. Below you will find access to all of them and we ask you to watch and enjoy them in your own time before the conference. Please feel free to prepare questions. There will be an opportunity to ask your question between 2 and 3:30 on 1 July. We ask you to submit your questions on Twitter using #cynhadleddymchwil20 and the contributors' Twitter accounts appear as you view the presentations. If you don't use Twitter, please ask your questions in the relevant box that appears under each presentation. We hope you enjoy and contribute to the event.