@ York St John University
To start off with, you’ll need to sign up to Twitter. You can see people’s tweets without an account, by viewing their profile or by searching for a keyword, as it’s a very public...
This year I was lucky enough to attend the Higher York e-learning Conference 2014 which was entitled -“Enhancing the student experience through flexible learning solutions”. Being a practitioner in higher education and a definite...
Initially when I started to work within higher education I continued to apply the strategies and techniques I had used within the primary classroom to my higher education sessions. It was not long before I realised that, even though the basic learning theories still apply, there was a uniqueness to learning and teaching within higher education that I had not been aware off.
The student-led Undergraduate Research Conference took place on Wednesday 22 October 10-4pm in De Grey Court, and celebrated a variety of undergraduate research which has recently taken place at York St John University. This year, in order...
#LTHEchat is an online Tweetchat which provides an opportunity for educators in higher education to discuss contemporary issues & trends in learning and teaching. Inspired by the hugely successful #edchat, this is an opportunity to...
What is Pinterest? Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo-sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, and hobbies. Users can browse other pinboards for images, ‘re-pin’ images...
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...
What is WordPress? WordPress is an online platform that allows you to (individually or collaboratively) create websites and blogs. It’s free to use and all YSJ staff and students have the ability to create their...
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...
First, a disclaimer: I make no claim to know what I’m talking about. I have never used twitter, and am looking at it to consider whether I should bother or not. My initial reaction...
