Use Getty Stock Photos for Free
Getty Images, the world’s largest photo agency, has made 35 million of its photos free to use, in an effort to combat piracy. Getty’s new Embedded Viewer tool will let Internet users search for...
Category: Tools & Technologies
Stimulating Participation in Lectures
Mandy (@MandyAsghar) and I recently delivered a workshop to colleagues in the Faculty of Arts to stimulate thinking and consider effective strategies including (but not limited to) the use of technology to promote engagement...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: LiveBinders
What are LiveBinders? LiveBinders can be thought of as an online version of a ring-binder. It allows you to collate resources in a number of formats into one place. You can pull together websites...
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) BUFVC Off Air TV Recording
Through the combined efforts of TEL, Media Services and ILS, YSJ have subscribed to the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) BUFVC Off Air TV Recording service. BoB, as it is commonly known as, allows staff...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational website created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. The stated mission is to provide ‘a free world-class education for anyone...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: Jorum
What is Jorum? Jorum is the UK’s national digital repository for Open Educational Resources (OERs) or in layman’s terms, it’s a place where you can get loads of free teaching resources. How does it...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: iPads
What is an iPad? I would be very surprised if anybody reading this post hadn’t heard of or used an iPad before. Over the past 10 years, iPads and other tablet/mobile devices have formed...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: HootSuite
What is HootSuite? These days everybody is connected to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and other social networks. Managing these accounts can be time consuming and sometimes there are just not enough hours in the...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: GoAnimate
What is GoAnimate? GoAnimate is a cloud-based platform for creating and distributing animated videos. GoAnimate’s platform allows individuals to develop both narrative videos, in which characters speak with lip-sync and move around, and video...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: Feedly
As we have already looked at ‘Fuse’ for Camtasia Relay on the iPad Project Blog, we thought ‘Feedly’ would be a great tool to talk about for our latest post in the A-Z series....