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Tell a story with Sutori

Sutori (previously known as HSTRY) is often thought of as a timeline tool, but Sutori ‘stories’ can be much more. With options to embed videos, sound files, create quizzes and add discussion forums it can be used by teachers and

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Posted in App review, Technology Enhanced Learning

Technology Rich Formative Assessment

From Poll Everywhere to Socrative to Google Forms, there is a huge range of tools available for formative assessment both in and out of face-to-face teaching hours. These methods of formative assessment can be extremely useful to gauge students’ understanding,

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Posted in App review, External events, Marking and assessment, Polling tools

Feedly: Make the internet come to you

Each month the TEL team will be introducing you to a useful resource and this time it is Feedly; the app that allows you to bring together everything you regularly view on the web. Feedly is an app that allows

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Smarter study – 5 essential apps for students

It’s the start of a new academic year and, to help new and returning students make the best possible start to the new term, the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team have compiled a list of five of the top apps to

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Flipping beautiful – news and digital curation on your mobile devices

For this app review we are looking at Flipboard; a news and reading app that can also be used for curating online content. Unlike many apps which moved from desktop computers or the web to mobile devices, Flipboard was made

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Remember everything with Evernote

  This week we want to introduce you to a great organisation and productivity tool called Evernote. Evernote is basically a note-making app, but it does much more than that. With tagging, reminders, sharing and a powerful search capability, it

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Gamifying language learning: Duolingo

Each month the TEL team will be introducing you to a useful resource. This time we are looking at an app that gamifies language learning. Duolingo is a free app designed to supplement language learning by gamifying the learning experience

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New! Introducing the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Team

Welcome to the University of Sussex Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) blog. We’re a new team and in our first post our aim is to introduce you to the services we offer and to give you an idea of how TEL can

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