#LTHEchat 20 – Open Badges
On Wednesday 29th April, from 8pm-9pm, Róisín and I will be hosting the weekly #LTHEchat on the topic of Open Badges. #LTHEchat is an online Tweetchat which provides an opportunity for educators in higher education...
Category: Tools & Technologies
Badges, badges everywhere!
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...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: Trello
Every now and again an app/tool comes along that can make a real impact on your day-to-day effectiveness & efficiency and goes straight into your productivity workflow (like Feedly, Evernote, Pocket, IFTTT or Buffer)...
Using WordPress for Evaluation & Feedback
There are many great tools available for collecting student evaluation or feedback in a session – TextWall, Padlet, Socrative, QR codes, Post-it notes (that’s right, we love them too) – they all work great...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: IFTTT
If This Then That IFTTT empowers you with creative control over the products and apps you love. Recipes are simple connections between products and apps. There are two types of Recipes: Do Recipes and...
Can iBooks Work for Distance Learning? [Webinar Recording]
Can iBooks Work for Distance Learning? The Manchester Distance Learning Network (MaDLeN) Wednesday, 25 March 2015 from 13:00 to 14:00 (GMT) The Manchester Distance Learning Network (MaDLeN) are proud to be hosting another free...
Day 10 of #YSJ10DoT: Exploring Twitter for learning, teaching and research
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...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: Pocket
What is it? Pocket is an app which allows users to save content from the web (articles, videos etc) for later use. The application can be downloaded to your computer, Apple, Android or Kobo...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: iSpring
What is it? iSpring is a toolkit for developing e-Learning content which can be delivered to the variety of devices; Desktops and Laptops (Windows & Mac) and iPads, iPhones and Android devices. How does...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: Vialogues
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...