Just Ask: Academic Integrity Week
Last week the LTD team were involved in the latest ‘Just Ask‘ week, a series of events run throughout the year designed to help students settle in to University life, on the theme of ‘Academic...
Technology Enhanced Learning Blog
Breakfast Cafe: Blogging with WordPress
The focus of this morning’s Breakfast Cafe was WordPress, and how it could be used to support and enhance Teaching and Learning. For those who don’t know, WordPress is an online platform that allows...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: HootSuite
What is HootSuite? These days everybody is connected to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and other social networks. Managing these accounts can be time consuming and sometimes there are just not enough hours in the...
Flipped Classroom
Flip teaching (or flipped classroom) is a form of blended learning which encompasses any use of technology to leverage the learning in a classroom, so a tutor can spend more time interacting with students...
Creating a Forum in Moodle
A Forum is an activity where students and teachers can exchange ideas by posting comments. It enables participants to have asynchronous discussions i.e. discussions that take place over an extended period of time. Forum...
TEL Breakfast Cafes
The next series of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Breakfast Cafes have been announced. Tea, Coffee and Croissants will be provided at the sessions. Moodle Assignments – bulk upload student grades and feedback. Tuesday 19th...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: GoAnimate
What is GoAnimate? GoAnimate is a cloud-based platform for creating and distributing animated videos. GoAnimate’s platform allows individuals to develop both narrative videos, in which characters speak with lip-sync and move around, and video...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: Feedly
As we have already looked at ‘Fuse’ for Camtasia Relay on the iPad Project Blog, we thought ‘Feedly’ would be a great tool to talk about for our latest post in the A-Z series....
Higher York e-Learning Network, Sept 2013
A couple of weeks ago YSJ hosted a meeting for members of the Higher York e-Learning Network. The network represents a group of Learning Technologists from across the York area but we were excited to...
A new academic year, a new Moodle. Yippee!
Next week, along with our hard-working colleagues in ILS, we’ll be launching the new version of Moodle – version 2.5. We’ve been working hard in the background to plan the upgrade, to make sure that we have lots...