EdTech fallacies, Kevin Costner and ALT-C
Anybody that was following the #altc hashtag a couple of weeks ago may have noticed some strange tweets from me and others talking about Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner and random connections to learning...
Author: Rosie Hare
What’s New in Moodle for 2017/18?
Instead of upgrading the version of Moodle that we’re using for this academic year, we decided to install some additional plugins to give staff some extra tools and functionality to play with. We’ll be...
TEL Surgeries: Moodle help for staff in August and September
The TEL Team are holding a number of drop-in ‘surgeries’ at the end of August and beginning of September for staff who may need help setting up their Moodle courses, have questions about Mahara...
Media Library Moodle Plugin now available!
We have worked with colleagues over in ILS and recently deployed the Media Library plugin in Moodle. This plugin makes it much easier for students to submit video assessments and also makes it easier...
Open Badges 2.0: Updates to the Open Badges Standard
On Monday 19th June, Open Badge Factory hosted a webinar on how both Open Badge Factory and Open Badge Passport are now compliant with the new Open Badges 2.0 standard (which was developed and released...
Moodle Monday: Lightbox Gallery
Use Moodle’s Lightbox Gallery to showcase a gallery of images in your Moodle course. You can change the permissions within your course site to allow students to post their own images to the gallery...
Learn with Lynda: Teacher Tech Tips Weekly
Teacher Tech Tips is a series that is updated weekly by Oliver Schinkten, former school teacher and current Staff Author at LinkedIn and Lynda.com. This Lynda.com course is slightly different to others we have...
Moodle Monday: Discussion Forums
Discussion forums have been a mainstay of the web for many years and still make up a core part of online/distance learning programmes. Most major VLE platforms have discussion forums available as an activity and...
#Digifest17 Part 2: Evidence-based TEL, Augmented Reality and Robots!
I’ve had to dedicate two blog posts to Digifest 2017, as I’ve had so much in my brain that I didn’t want to overwhelm people with one mammoth post! See my Part 1 post for...
#Digifest17 Part 1: Humans vs Machines
On 14th and 15th March I attended Jisc’s annual Digifest event, held at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. After a conference, I always feel like I need a few days to rest and...