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…
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Get even more from Poll Everywhere – LaTeX, Surveys and more…
Polling and quizzing tools can be a great way to increase interactivity and engagement in classes, in particular in large lectures. Poll Everywhere is a useful tool which takes advantage of the mobile devices that students already use, affords students…
Tagged with: Mobile phones, PollEveywhere, Quizzing, Voting
Posted in Learning Design, Polling tools, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in Learning Design, Polling tools, Technology Enhanced Learning
Constructively aligning criterion feedback using Turnitin
Implementing processes to support the electronic management of assessment has been a priority for many universities and colleges in recent years, with many making use of Turnitin as a means of checking the originality of submitted work and providing feedback to…
Tagged with: Online marking, Rubrics, Turnitin
Posted in Marking and assessment, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in Marking and assessment, Technology Enhanced Learning
Get connected – engaging with online communities
‘Connectedness’ is the very essence of the social web. Digital technologies have an important role in mediating connections but it is important to recognise that it is the connections that these tools facilitate that are important and not the tools themselves.…
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…
Plickers! An easy-to-use quizzing tool
The TEL team recently demonstrated Plickers at the annual University of Sussex Teaching and Learning Conference 2016. The theme of the conference was inclusivity. To build on this theme, we demonstrated how to use technology to encourage participation with two TEL…
Tagged with: Engagement, Inclusion, Plickers, Quizzes, Quizzing
Posted in Polling tools, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in Polling tools, Technology Enhanced Learning
Using forums effectively – ways to improve engagement
In a Virtual Learning Environment such as Study Direct (Moodle), forums can be a great way to share course information, build community and allow students to easily share resources and ideas. Last year our post The benefits of lurking in…
Exploring Openness at #OER16
This year I attended the 7th Open Educational Resources Conference. ‘OER16: Open Culture’ held on 19th-20th April 2016 at the University of Edinburgh. For the uninitiated, ‘Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media that are…
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