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...
Category: Tools & Technologies
Learn with Lynda: Learning LinkedIn
We’re kicking off 2017’s Learn with Lynda posts with a collaborative post from the TEL Team and Employer Engagement and Student Opportunities Advisor, Suzanne Dickinson, from Careers and Student Opportunities. Maybe you’ve made a...
Creating Moodle Courses for Semester 2, 2016/17
If you are teaching on modules starting in Semester 2, the instructions below will walk you through how to set these up. If this is the first iteration of the module this academic year,...
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...
Updates to Mozilla Backpack
If you’ve been using Mozilla Backpack to display your Open Badges, the way you login to your Open Badges Backpack is changing. You need to take some simple steps to maintain access to your...
January MOOCs: Teaching with Video and Teaching with Moodle
If you’re on the lookout for some professional development in 2017, there are a couple of MOOCs starting in January that may be of interest. MOOC means ‘Massive Online Open Course’. They are usually...
Moodle Monday: Course Announcements
During the academic year you may need to contact all of your students, emailing each student would be time consuming and may cause problems with the number of emails you can send. To solve this...
Learn with Lynda: Learning WhatsApp
In this month’s Learn with Lynda the spotlight is on Learning WhatsApp, a brand new course by Nick Brazzi, which lasts 1h 27m. With more than one billion users globally, WhatsApp is one of...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: Meetoo
What is it? When I attended ALT-C in September I saw a demo of Meetoo, which had only recently moved into offering to Education, a tool that allows you to engage with your audience...
Moodle Monday: Online Moodle help with Moodle Docs
There’s nothing worse than running into a technical difficulty and not knowing where to go and who to contact to get help. We appreciate that many lecturers spend time out of the typical ‘9...