Once upon a time research meant mountains of paper, tapes, card-index systems and hours spent trying to find just the right note or adding bibliographical references. Today, mobile devices and cloud-based apps make life as a researcher easier and less…
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The perfect blend: a brilliant speaker and the perfect listener
Professor Sally Brown is a National Teaching Fellow, Emerita Professor of Higher Education Diversity at Leeds Metropolitan University and a former PVC. Sally was also keynote speaker at the recent Sussex Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, ‘Strategies for Student Engagement’.…
Introducing Prezi: a virtual canvas for presenting ideas.
For March’s app review we would like to introduce a presentation and storytelling software called Prezi. What is Prezi? Prezi is a cloud-based service for presenting ideas from a virtual canvas. Cloud-based means that it lives on a server on…
Interactive visual learning with ThingLink
What is ThingLink? Available on both iOS and Android, ThingLink is a free app that allows you to create and share engaging interactive images. With ThingLink users can overlay rich media tags onto an image or diagram and embed links…
Introducing SoundCloud: an audio recording and sharing platform
For October’s app review we would like to introduce an audio-streaming and sharing service called SoundCloud. What is SoundCloud? SoundCloud is a service for uploading your own audio files and finding those created by others. There is a strong social element…
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…
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…
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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