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: Staff Development
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...
Tweeting at Conferences and Talking About Teaching 2017 #YSJTAT
Friday 20th January 2017 9:00am – 4:00pm Talking About Teaching is our annual event that gives staff the opportunity to engage in conversations about learning, teaching and assessment. The event will create interactive opportunities...
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...
‘TEL’ Me About… Improving your feeback through Turnitin
We recently ran one of our lunchtime ‘TEL’ me about… sessions covering using Turnitin to improve feedback for students. Staff at the university can choose whether to set assignments through the Moodle assignment or...
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...
12 Apps of Christmas 2016
It’s that time of year again; only so many shopping days until Christmas, Mariah Carey, Shakin’ Stevens & Slade on an eternal loop and the, now annual, “12 Apps of Christmas” emails dropping into...
Moodle Monday: Quiz Activity
What is it? There are quite a few ways that you can make your Moodle course more interactive and encourage student engagement. One method is using the Quiz activity module, this allows you to design...
Learn with Lynda: Prezi Presentation tips and tricks
This month’s Learn with Lynda is focusing on presentations. Are you looking for a different way to present to students? Then Prezi may be the (free) tool for you! We have previosuly introduced Prezi in...