Whether we talk about digital skills, digital literacy or digital capabilities there is no doubt that students need to develop their use and understanding of digital tools (see Digital Skills for the UK Economy). Don’t be misled by talk of…
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Doing it Digitally – Summer
One way to develop your digital capabilities is to carry out familiar activities using digital tools. We already offered some examples of this approach in Doing it digitally – presentations and in this post I’ll be looking at a range…
Posted in Learning Design, Technology Enhanced Learning
Conference Tweeting and Storify
Twitter is a great companion for academic conferences – before, during and after the event, the micro-blogging platform can expand and deepen the experience. Building a conference community with a hashtag # Conference organisers will usually identify a suitable hashtag…
Doing it digitally – presentations
Giving presentations is as much part of academics’ lives as it is their students’. Whether presenting at a conference or in an undergraduate seminar, there are digital tools to help with every step of the process. In previous posts such…
Get creative! Smartphones for learning
Mobile devices are often seen as being for consumption of content, rather than creation. This post offers suggestions for using students’ smartphones as part of a creative learning process that develops digital capabilities alongside subject knowledge and understanding. Much of…
Tagged with: Creative, Smartphones, Technology
Posted in Digital scholarship, Mobile learning, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in Digital scholarship, Mobile learning, Technology Enhanced Learning
Note-making and annotating with an iPad – which apps do I need?
When academics and students start using an iPad some of the first things they want to be able to do are make notes (in lectures, at conferences or in meetings) and annotate pdf documents. There are many apps available to…
Survey tools for learning, teaching and scholarly practice
Involving students as researchers can have huge benefits in terms of motivation, learning and the development of discipline-specific skills. There is also much to be learnt by teachers carrying out research into their own teaching. Either of these activities is…
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