Open chat about Open Badges #LTHEchat

Posted on by Anne Hole
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This Wednesday (29th April 2015) the popular weekly Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Twitter chat (#LTHEchat) will be focusing on Open Badges.

What is a Tweetchat?

Tweetchats are a great opportunity to learn by connecting with other HE educators to discuss ideas and share experiences. The timeslot (8-9pm GMT) means that international colleagues can contribute too.
Twitter users engage in a real-time discussion, structured around a set of questions tweeted by the facilitators. The conversation is brought together by the use of a hashtag – in this case #LTHEchat. Anyone can follow the conversation by searching Twitter for the hashtag (you do not need to have a Twitter account to do this) or join in the chat by using the hashtag in their tweets.

If you are new to tweetchats you might want to start by observing, or you can get some tips on joining in from this presentation by Sue Beckingham (@suebecks) where she is ‘Introducing tweetchats using #LTHEchat as an exemplar‘. Read more ›

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Talis Insight 2015 – the changing geography of learning

Posted on by Kitty Horne

TalisLast week Sally and I visited Birmingham’s ICC for the first day of Talis Insight 2015, a two day event bringing together a combination of learning technologists and library staff in higher education to explore how learning and teaching is being transformed by technology. The first day featured Sussex’s own Kitty Inglis and Suzanne Tatham as well as much talk of digital identities, ebooks and learning analytics. However, what stood out for me was the idea that the digital is transforming the geography of learning. Read more ›

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Love your computer’s secret tips and tricks

Posted on by Sally Burr
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What can your computer do for you? Lots, in fact. There are many computer and keyboard tips and tricks that can help you. Whether you are creating resources for teaching, saving and closing your documents in a hurry, or even presenting in the lecture theatre.

Read on for the TEL team’s favourite keyboard tips that can help you either save time or save that document you’ve been working on for hours from the accidental trash can. Read more ›

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The perfect blend: a brilliant speaker and the perfect listener

Posted on by Sally Burr

Pic 1Professor 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’.

Cogi is an audio recording app I discovered the day before.

Bring Sally and Cogi together and I can now happily bring highlights of the keynote to you. Read more ›

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Happy Easter from @SussexTEL

Posted on by Sally Burr
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Digital tools for writing at university

Posted on by Anne Hole
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There are many mobile apps and browser-based digital tools that are designed to help with life at university, but it can be difficult to know which to choose for particular tasks.

In September we ran a blog post on ‘Smarter Study’ which identified 5 essential apps for students. Today we are focusing on writing for university and highlighting how tools can come together in a digital writing workflow. Read more ›

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Introducing Prezi: a virtual canvas for presenting ideas.

Posted on by Pete Sparkes

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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 the internet rather than on your computer.

Prezi allows individuals or groups to work online to create ‘Prezis’ using a mix of text, graphic and multimedia content ‘framed’ onto to a scalable 3D canvas.

The interface includes a zoom function which allows users to navigate through frames on the canvas which display using a variation of angles and levels of magnification.

See the following ‘What is Prezi?’ presentation to view an example of Prezi and learn more about how it works. Read more ›

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Screencasting and podcasting: create rich learning resources

Posted on by Kitty Horne
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We often hear podcasts and screencasts discussed as learning resources, but what exactly are they? And how can you create them?

A podcast is an audio file that can be downloaded and listened to as and when individual listeners would like. A screencast is a recording of your computer screen which is usually accompanied by audio narration or captioning.

Take a look at some of the example podcasts suggested in our blog post ‘Learning on the move? Make the most of your commute?’, or view this screencasting example to see how the TEL team have used screencasting to create a learning resource for Poll Everywhere. Read more ›

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