Category: Teaching, Learning & Assessment
What is SlideShare? SlideShare is the world’s largest online community for sharing and discovering presentations with over 60+ millions users and 15+ million presentations. SlideShare supports the following presentation/document formats: PowerPoint, Keynote, OpenDocument, Word...
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? Twitter is...
One of the really interesting presentations from MoodleMoot Edinburgh 2014 was ‘Designing Active Learning in Moodle – a preview of the Learning Designer tools’ by Eileen Kennedy & Dionisis Dimakopoulos. The Learning Designer suite of...
If you’ve ever thought that there must be an easy way to manage references and citations then RefWorks is for you. What is it? RefWorks is a web-based reference management system accessible to any...
What is it? Popplet is a mind mapping app (and online web service) that allows you to visually curate your ideas and thoughts. This app could be particularly useful for those people who consider...
Ever looked through your lecture notes and wanted to be able to recall exactly what was said at the time you wrote them? Livescribe is there to help you with exactly that. What is...
In March, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to present a paper at the 1st International Conference on the use of iPads in Higher Education. The presentation focussed on the research I have been...
The 3E Framework is based on a tried and tested Enhance-Extend-Empower continuum for using technology to effectively support learning, teaching and assessment. The three broad stages of the continuum are: Enhance – Adopting technology in simple...
I spent a long time researching the various technology-enhanced learning tools available, and decided that Nearpod was potentially of most use to me. What is it? Nearpod is a way of sharing presentations with...
What is it? This is a free web tool that can also be downloaded as an app onto technology devices such as tablets and smartphones. It works by providing a central place to create...