Ebooks – what’s not to love? #sussexmtw

Posted on by Anne Hole
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University of Sussex Library provides access to over 100,000 Ebooks.

Ebooks have seen a huge increase in popularity, with the University of Sussex Library now providing access to approximately 100,000 titles for staff and students to explore. In the second of this week’s posts to mark Mobile Technologies Week Julian Robinson (Learning and Teaching Support Librarian at Sussex) makes the case for using Ebooks to support teaching and learning and provides guidance on how to access the Library’s extensive collection.

Ebooks offer some really useful features over print. For example, you can access them instantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, both on and off-campus. There’s extra functionality too, such as full text searching; great when you’re wanting to quickly read around your subject and identify a few paragraphs or chapters to read in more depth. Read more ›

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Try something new for Mobile Technologies Week – borrow a laptop with your Library card #sussexmtw

Posted on by Sally Burr
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Available for six hour loan in the Library

The Library has teamed up with IT Services to bring you 20 Google Chromebooks, with an additional four due to arrive in the next few weeks.

You can borrow a Chromebook for up to six hours at a time in the Library – perfect for a good stint of study.

To borrow a Chromebook, you just need to visit the Library with your Library card. Next, locate the self-service Chromebook ‘home’ – just behind and left of the main Library service help desk –  and follow the instructions. Read more ›

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Are you using Socrative? An engaging tool to quiz student understanding

Posted on by Nicholas Botfield
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Socrative: enquiry-based learning in action

Socrates (470-399 BC) would be pleased to see his philosophy of enquiry-based learning underpinning Socrative; the easy to use, quiz resource for teachers.

By using Socrative, you can test your students’ knowledge to gauge their current level, check ‘in-lesson’ concept learning, and add interaction to classes as students respond via their mobile device.

Invite Socratic methods into your teaching by signing up for Socrative and merge the ancient philosophy of Socrates with the modern technologies and devices that we use today. Read more ›

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Learning on the move – Mobile Technologies Week!

Posted on by David Walker
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Mobile Technologies Week 17-21 November www.sussex.ac.uk/library/mtw

The Library and Technology Enhanced Learning have come together to organise a week of exciting events for University of Sussex staff, students and researchers around the use of mobile technologies to support teaching and learning. Mobile Technologies Week begins on Monday, 17th November.

The programme aims to highlight the vast range of content and resources that can be created and consumed via mobile devices including smartphones, laptops, tablets and e-readers.  If you’re new to the world of apps, e-books and iPads there’ll be sessions to help you get started and expand your knowledge.  For those who are more mobile savvy why not try your hand at building a simple mobile app or learn how to produce and edit videos in a mobile environment. Read more ›

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Introducing SoundCloud: an audio recording and sharing platform

Posted on by Anne Hole
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Audio and video in teaching and learning

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 with easy sharing and options to add comments to tracks.

You can browse what’s popular (‘Trending Music’ or ‘Trending Audio’) or search for what you are interested in.

When you have found the track you want you can ‘Like’ it, add it to a playlist,
download it (see below for downloading limits) and/or share it to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, Pinterest or by email. Read more ›

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Skills at your fingertips: Skills Hub

Posted on by Sally Burr

Looking for skills support at Sussex? Skills Hub imageStaff and students at the University of Sussex now have access to a one stop shop for study and support needs in one easy to find, online location.

Whatever the type of resource or guidance required, the Skills Hub is the place to go, or to refer your students, to discover the range of support available for Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate students. For Doctoral Research students, please see Researcher Development.

The services in Skills Hub are not new. They are, however, newly put together to make it easier for everyone to find the service or support that they need. Read more ›

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Facebook: how private are your privacy settings?

Posted on by Sally Burr
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You might be surprised to see the information available to the public via your Facebook account, even if your privacy settings are set to ‘friends only’.

Despite this setting, the public may still be able to view:

  • previous posts (pre-privacy settings)
  • previous Facebook banners
  • your friends block
  • groups you have recently joined
  • your relationship status (if published)
  • the ‘about you’ block
  • recent activity

Professional profiles

For some students, having personal information within the public domain is not a concern until they enter the professional world. For trainee teachers and social workers, however, access to private details can present an immediate problem, for example;

  • when on placement in a school
  • if vulnerable adults ask to ‘friend’ you on Facebook
  • if a supervisor reads a ‘bad day at work’ post

    • Read more ›

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New TEL workshops: future-proof your teaching

Posted on by Nicholas Botfield
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Embracing technology for learning and teaching

The TEL team has a new programme of workshops which will give you the opportunity to test and assess new technologies before using them in the classroom, or in your work or study routine.

If you are interested in using technology in your teaching but apprehensive about taking the plunge, or perhaps have seen faculty members using technologies but not yet had the chance to test them out for yourself, join the TEL team for a stimulating workshop.

Bookmarks, Prezis, Padlet? If these terms are not familiar to you and you would like to learn more, please see our staff training programme.

We can help demystify new learning technologies for you and give you ideas on how to use these new and emerging tools in your teaching. Read more ›

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