Twitter is a great companion for academic conferences – before, during and after the event, the micro-blogging platform can expand and deepen the experience. This post offers some ideas for making the most of Twitter at your next conference. Building…
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Conference tweeting – some tips and tricks
Tagged with: Apps, Conference, digital skills, Mobile apps, Social media, Twitter
Posted in App review, Social media
Posted in App review, Social media
This week we are introducing a fabulous social media tool, Instagram. Instagram is a social media app which allows users to share images and video clips. As social media sites like Facebook (which its worth noting is the parent company…
Tagged with: Active learning, App reviews, Apps, Engagement, Images, Mobile, Social media
Posted in Active learning, App review, Social media
Posted in Active learning, App review, Social media
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
Take 5 this summer and learn new skills
This summer Technology Enhanced Learning will be relaunching our hugely popular Take 5 series with some exciting new additions to our offer. Take 5 courses are a series of bitesize self-study online tutorials, open to all staff at the University of…
Tagged with: Collaboration, Events
Posted in Mobile learning, Social media, Study Direct, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in Mobile learning, Social media, Study Direct, Technology Enhanced Learning
Making meaning with Social Media
When you hear the phrase ‘social media’, probably the first association that springs into your mind is conversing through short-form messages and shared links or images. You probably also recognise a range of practices, conventions and behaviours, such as collaborative…
Tagged with: curriculum, Engagement, meaning, Social media
Posted in Digital scholarship, Learning Design, Mobile learning, Social media
Posted in Digital scholarship, Learning Design, Mobile learning, Social media
No time to read it now? Pop it in your Pocket for later!
This week we are introducing a useful tool for organising and collating interesting articles you find on the web. Pocket lets you save articles, videos or images you find online in one place. You can then access them from any of…
Podcast Episode 8 – A Space Beyond the Room – Using a blogging platform to support learners
Podcast Episode 8 – A Space Beyond the Room – Using a blogging platform to support learners In this episode, Sally Burr talks to Dr Rebecca Webb, Lecturer in Early Years and Primary Education at the University of Sussex, and a…
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…
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