‘TEL’ Me About… Workshops
Throughout this academic year, the TEL team will be delivering a series of lunchtime workshops alongside online bite sized learning series (more on this soon). These sessions will cover a range of tools and...
Technology Enhanced Learning Blog
10 Ways to Use Video in Your Teaching
The use of video, audio & multimedia has become a lot more mainstream in HE teaching, learning and assessment in recent times, mainly due to the accessibility and ease of use of equipment and software,...
Gamification and the Undergraduate Research Conference
This year’s student-led Undergraduate Research Conference takes place on Wednesday 21 October 9.30am-4.15pm in De Grey Court, and will celebrate a variety of undergraduate research which has recently taken place at York St John University. It will...
Looking Back on #ALTC 2015
Shaping the Future of Learning Together I recently attended the 22nd annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology, 8–10 September 2015, at The University of Manchester. I wrote a blog post Looking Ahead to #ALTC...
Teaching and Learning Conversations (TLC)
About TLC The TLC are an exciting informal cross-institutional collaboration to provide joint CPD opportunities for everybody teaching and/or supporting learning in Higher Education. Their aim is to bring together colleagues from different disciplines, institutions...
Talking About Teaching 2016 Call for Proposals
Talking about Teaching 2016 is our annual event that gives staff an opportunity to engage in conversations about learning, teaching and assessment. The event will create interactive opportunities for sharing practice and networking, helping...
HEA Launches Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Toolkit
The use of technology to maximise the student learning experience is a vibrant area of interest across all tiers of global education. Technology enhanced learning (TEL) is often used as a synonym for e-learning...
Learn with Lynda: Foundations of Teaching with Technology!
As you may know, Information Learning Services has purchased an institutional subscription to Lynda.com, an online video library that provides access to nearly 4000 learning courses in business, software, technology and creative skills. All courses...
Goodbye Relay, Hello Screencast-o-Matic Pro!
For quite a while now, Staff & Students at YSJ have been using Camtasia Relay’s presentation recording to capture and share knowledge quickly. Relay allowed users to simply press record to capture audio, on-screen...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: Flubaroo
Google Forms can be a great way to quickly poll or survey students (providing you are not capturing any sensitive or private data), to stimulate engagement and incorporate active learning to enhance the effectiveness...