Day 5 of #YSJ10DoT: Tweeting Media and Polls
We started tweeting on Day 2 and covered how to include URLs to other websites in tweets. Including signposts to other content is one way of making your tweets more attractive and engaging –...
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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...
NMC Horizon Report > 2017 Higher Education Edition
The NMC Horizon Report > 2017 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). This 14th edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an...
Moodle Monday: Wiki Activity
Today Moodle Monday is looking at the Wiki Activity, a wiki is a collection of collaboratively authored web documents, Wikipedia is the most famous example of a wiki. Wikis get their name from the...
TEL me about… Student Engagement Tools
On Monday 6th February we ran another of our TEL me about… workshops, this one looked at student engagement tools. In it we shared a number of audience response tools that can be used...
Learn with Lynda: Twitter Chats
This month Learn with Lynda is spotlighting the Organising Twitter Chats a new 51 minute course from Brian Honigman. You will need to be familiar with Twitter to be able to benefit from this...
Moodle Monday: The Basics – Text Editor, Accessibility and Labels
In this Moodle Monday post we will be going back to basics and recapping some of the essential tools for Moodle. The Text Editor The text editor (sometimes referred to as the ‘HTML editor’)...
Bring your Own Device for Learning #BYOD4L 2017
16th – 20th January 2017 This is the 5th time the BYOD4L program has run. It is a bite-size open course offered over 5 days for educators and students in HE, as well as...
Tweeting at Conferences and Talking About Teaching 2017 #YSJTAT
Friday 20th January 2017 9:00am – 4:00pm Talking About Teaching is our annual event that gives staff the opportunity to engage in conversations about learning, teaching and assessment. The event will create interactive opportunities...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: Kahoot
What is it? There are many audience participation apps and tools that can be used to encourage student participation and engagement, we have covered quite a few on this blog. This post is focusing...