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Study Direct: using Choice for booking appointments

University of Sussex tutors can use the Choice feature in Study Direct, our Moodle-based VLE, as an online system for students to sign up to tutorials, feedback meetings or office hours. A Choice activity is: easy to create easy to

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Visualize learning: 7 sources for free images

It’s easy enough to find an image using a search engine. Simply type the word ‘orange’ into Google, for example, and 577,000,000 orange-related results are retrieved in just 0.47 seconds. Which of these results, however, will find you an image rather

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Managing your tweets with Tweetdeck

Keeping track of your tweets can be a challenge. Twitter can be fast, furious and the constant stream can be overwhelming for new users. To help you make sense of your Twitter stream you can use a Twitter management tool such as Tweetdeck.

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Flickr Attribution Helper: credit with a click

What is the Flickr Attribution Helper? The Flickr Attribution Helper is a free and easy to install ‘bookmarklet’ which facilitates easy attribution of images. When you are using the internet, a bookmarklet allows you to have more capability to interact without

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Smart devices for learning

Sally Burr from the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team recently attended the Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group (MELSIG). The ‘Smart Devices for Learning’ event hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University explored the impact that Smart technology – mobile devices, tablets, apps and social

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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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