@ York St John University
On Tuesday 21 April, we were delighted to host the most recent White Rose Learning Technologist Forum. Even more so as Lisa Gray and Lynnette Lall from Jisc were on hand to facilitate a workshop...
If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know we’re proponents of open badges as a means of recognising staff CPD and the informal learning that happens on and alongside university courses (see previous blog posts...
After a spot of ‘hook the duck’ and coconut-winning at the evening’s festival themed dinner, it was back to business on Day 2 of JISC’s Digifest 2015 conference. If you’ve missed it, you can...
Earlier this week, I was fortunate to attend the JISC Digifest conference at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham (9-10 March). JISC provides advice, content, research and IT services for UK education and research providers....
Our last day! Hopefully by now you are comfortable with Twitter basics and have explored a couple of tools and approaches to organising and curating content. Along the way, you will have undoubtedly seen...
Over the last 7 days, you may have found that as you continue to use Twitter, you come across more and more interesting people to follow and your following grows exponentially. Keeping track of...
Hashtags (using the # symbol) is where Twitter really gets interesting. Basically, the hashtag is a form of metadata. A # in front of a word signals that it is a keyword of some sort,...
You can’t say a lot in 140 characters – but you can link to other places on the web where a topic can be discussed at greater length, perhaps in an article, blog post or video....
What to tweet? Twitter only allows you to send 140 characters, which doesn’t seem much when we are used to writing at length about complex ideas. That doesn’t mean that Twitter is superficial or...
What is it? Vialogues is a free online tool from EdLab, Columbia University, that allows you to create discussions around videos currently available online, or videos you have created and want to upload. This...
