Tagged: Tools & Technologies
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...
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...
If you’ve been using Mozilla Backpack to display your Open Badges, the way you login to your Open Badges Backpack is changing. You need to take some simple steps to maintain access to your...
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...
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...
What is it? When I attended ALT-C in September I saw a demo of Meetoo, which had only recently moved into offering to Education, a tool that allows you to engage with your audience...
There’s nothing worse than running into a technical difficulty and not knowing where to go and who to contact to get help. We appreciate that many lecturers spend time out of the typical ‘9...
What is Nearpod? Nearpod is an application that enables tutors to create interactive teaching resources that can be accessed by students on laptops & mobile devices (iOS and Android). Tutors can monitor and measure students’...
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...
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...