Day 9 of #YSJ10DoT: Managing Information
If you’re choosing who to follow effectively, then your Twitter feed should be full of interesting tweets and links to webpages etc which you might want to follow up on. It’s easy to lose...
Author: Daniel Mackley
Day 6 of #YSJ10DoT: Retweeting
You’ve sent a few tweets over the last five days – hopefully you’ve found plenty in your everyday routine which would be of interest to others, whether they’re your peers, other professions within or...
Day 4 of #YSJ10DoT: @Replies, Mentions and Direct Messaging
You’ve sent some tweets, followed people and hopefully gained some followers of your own. Some people prefer to listen more than they tweet, which is fine – the only thing to consider is, the...
Day 3 of #YSJ10DoT: Following People
You’ve sent your first tweets, creating interesting and engaging content for your potential followers. The other side to Twitter, of course, is the stream of information brought to you by the people you follow. And if...
Day 1 of #YSJ10DoT: Creating and personalising your Twitter account
To start off with, you’ll need to sign up to Twitter. You can see people’s tweets without an account, by viewing their profile or by searching for a keyword, as it’s a very public...
Moodle 2.7 – New Features
The Technology Enhanced Learning team and Information Learning Services have been working hard over the last couples of months to bring staff and students an early Christmas present. On the Saturday 13th December, we...
SEDA: Supporting Learning with Technology (SLT) 2015
Supporting Learning with Technology is one of the named awards available through SEDA’s Professional Development Framework, and it is a subset of the Embedding Learning Technologies (ELT) award. It is relevant to all staff involved with learning technologies...
“Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”
Last Week Phil (@PhilVincent) and I had the opportunity to delivery a workshop at the 19th Annual SEDA conference, entitled ‘Opportunities and challenges for academic development in a post-digital age’. The workshop titled ‘Badges?...
Talking about Teaching 2015 – Call for Contributions
Talking about Teaching 2015 is our annual event that gives staff an opportunity to engage in conversations about learning, teaching and assessment. This year the theme for the event is “Inclusive Learning, Teaching and...
Assessment Guidelines: Videos for Students
Following a successful pilot last academic year, the Occupational Therapy programme team have again created video assignment guidelines for students on their module assessment. The videos provide a overview of the assessment criteria, the learning...