In the current climate of travel restrictions, shielding and limits to student numbers on campus, the student body is much more dispersed than in previous years. This has brought with it new challenges in providing for the significant number of…
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The Great Firewall of China: restricted access to commonly used websites and resources
Tagged with: access, distance learning, resources
Posted in Blended learning, Canvas, digital skills, Learning Design, Learning Technologies
Posted in Blended learning, Canvas, digital skills, Learning Design, Learning Technologies
4 top TEL tips for videos
This short video will take you through four quick top TEL tips which can help you improve the quality of your videos when you’re recording yourself. Tips include: Positioning. Ensure you are in the centre of frame of your camera…
Problem Document Format: PDFs and Accessibility
In the past PDF (Portable Document Format) was considered a great format for delivering documents online. By their nature the PDFs can be viewed and look the same on different devices. However, with the increase in viewing content on mobile…
5 steps to using tech for presentations
Giving presentations is as much a part of academics’ lives as it is their students’. Whether presenting at a conference or in an undergraduate seminar, there are similar issues to bear in mind and digital tools to help. Step 1.…
Tagged with: Accessibility, digital accessiblity, Presentations
Posted in digital skills, Learning Design
Posted in digital skills, Learning Design
Digital tools for reflective practice – an update
Back in 2015 I wrote a post for this blog on digital tools for reflective practice, and it has proved to be one of our most-viewed posts, but things move fast in the world of digital tools, so it seemed…
How to enhance your assessments with video presentation
In this blog post, I will explore the potential and possibilities for assessing students’ presentation skills through the medium of video. With the affordances of modern technology, the possibilities for students to create video presentations are now much more accessible.…
Tagged with: assessment, digital skills, Inclusive practice, Multimedia, Video
Posted in Apps and tools, digital skills, Marking and assessment, Mobile learning
Posted in Apps and tools, digital skills, Marking and assessment, Mobile learning
Digital Wellbeing – How to Focus and Unplug
You would be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed when it comes to tools for work, productivity, teaching, learning and entertainment. There is a lot of noise from a lot of places. Notifications popping up on our phones, tablets, laptops, watches and…
Blogs for academics – 5 great reasons to get involved
Blogs are all around us on the internet and you may sometimes read posts from popular news blogs without necessarily thinking of them as blogs or formally subscribing to them. For anyone involved in teaching and/or learning, however, there is…
Tagged with: Blog, blogging, Researchers, Students, Teaching with tech
Posted in digital skills, Social media
Posted in digital skills, Social media
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