#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...
Category: Tools & Technologies
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 is the stream of information brought to you by the people that you follow. And if you...
Day 2 of #YSJ10DoT: Sending Tweets
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...
Day 1 of #YSJ10DoT: Creating and personalising your Twitter account
Hello! And welcome to the 2017 iteration of 10 Days of Twitter! To start off with, you’ll need to sign up to Twitter. You can see people’s tweets without an account, by viewing their...
Introducing the #YSJ10DoT Game for 2017!
Introduction to the #YSJ10DoT game! 10 Days of Twitter, or #YSJ10DoT, starts on Monday 27th February 2017, so there are still a few days left to sign up if you want to participate along with other...
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...
10 Days of Twitter #YSJ10DoT – Coming Soon!
Ever wondered if Twitter might be a useful tool for enhancing your teaching & learning, or developing your personal learning network? Not sure how to get started, or how it all works? Welcome to...
Digital Accessibility: Enabling Participation in the Information Society
A free, online course on Digital Accessibility starts next Monday (6 February). The course has been created by University of Southampton through the FutureLearn platform and is being led by Professor Mike Wald and...
TEL Me About Content Curation Tools – workshop write-up.
On Wednesday 25 January we ran a TEL Me About workshop on using online content curation tools and how content curation can be seen as a core competency when it comes to Digital Capability....
TEL Me About Workshops in Semester 2
We’ve got more TEL Me About Workshops scheduled for Semester 2 and are looking forward to sharing more TEL tools and approaches that can be used for enhancing teaching, learning and assessment. To book...