What’s New in Moodle for 2017/18?
Instead of upgrading the version of Moodle that we’re using for this academic year, we decided to install some additional plugins to give staff some extra tools and functionality to play with. We’ll be...
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TEL me About… Workshops for 2017-18
Throughout the coming academic year, the TEL team will be delivering a series of lunchtime workshops. These sessions will cover a range of tools and technologies available at the institution for enhancing teaching, learning...
Mahara Update – Coming Soon!
Over the summer we will be updating our Mahara e-portfolio system, to version 16.10! Once the update has taken place you may notice some differences to the appearance of Mahara, as well as some...
Moodle: Planning for Student Progress & Engagement Tracking 17-18
Access, retention, attainment and progression in and beyond education are all components of student success. Success in each of these areas depends on the extent to which students are engaged, and their belonging is...
New TEL Assistant
I’d like to introduce myself as the newest member of the TEL team. My role as Technology Enhanced Learning Assistant will be to support staff in using technology to enhance students’ learning. Working to...
Learn with Lynda: Drawing Vector Graphics: Iconography
This month Learn with Lynda is highlighting Drawing Vector Graphics: Iconography a 3h45m intermediate course about creating vector icon images. This is a particularly useful course if you have, or are thinking about developing,...
#YSJ10DoT 2017 Evaluation
This iteration of the programme is now over, but you can still work through the materials in your own time or, if you’d like the experience of participating in a community of people all...
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...
Day 7 of #YSJ10DoT: Hashtags and Trends
Hashtags (using the # symbol) is where Twitter really gets interesting. Basically, the hashtag is a form of metadata. A # in front of a word signals that it is a keyword of some...
Day 6 of #YSJ10DoT: Retweeting
You’ve sent a few tweets over the last five days – hopefully you’ve found plenty in your everyday routine which would be of interest to others, whether they’re your peers, other professions within or...