Padlet is a bit like a bulletin board where participants can post a variety of items onto a digital wall…
Quick Toolkit Tips – Padlet
Using Socrative to enhance the lecture
Kate Byrnes has been exploring the use of Socrative in her sessions. This article looks at how she has used Socrative and how it applies to the FFL Toolkit.
Annotating in Office Lens
A little while ago, Microsoft made some very interesting developments to their wonderful Office Lens app. We will look at those enhancements in a minute but first, let’s take a quick look at Office Lens. If you’ve not used it before, it’s a very handy app that can “scan” a variety of materials: whiteboards, documents, business cards and so on..
Asking questions in a lecture using the FFL Toolkit
We often get asked about how academics can get students to ask questions in real time during a lecture, using the future facing learning (FFL) toolkit. Giving students the voice and confidence to be able to ask questions is a key part of the FFL project…
Using Microsoft OneNote to capture lectures
Jibin He from SSED came to visit us asking about using a stylus for his iPad. As he works with a lot of equations and scientific notation, to be able to write these more naturally would be very advantageous…
Printing from your iPad
As the University pushes forward with the Future Facing Learning agenda, a question we frequently get asked in training is whether it is possible to print from the iPad to the MyPrint system. The quick answer is Yes! But it’s
Alternative uses for Journals
This article looks at how we can use the Journal tool in Blackboard for something a bit different to its usual task. The most common application of the journal is to create a space within a module for private reflection. However, it has other uses as this article will hopefully demonstrate. The article finishes with a very quick summary of reflection in education, and how Blackboard can help facilitate this…
Royalty Free Music for Free
There are many times when I need a bit of music for a presentation or a show reel but I have very little skills in creating my own music! This post looks at a few sites where you can download
Good Practice Guide to Quizzes
This guide takes a look at some of the pedagogic implications of using quizzes in your on-line module. It’s not a technical document, but will hopefully stimulate some ideas and thoughts about using quizzes. http://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://blogs.tees.ac.uk/lteonline/files/2015/02/PedagogyGuideQuizzes1.pdf&embedded=truePedagogyGuideQuizzes
Good Practice Guide to Discussion Boards
This document takes a look at different uses and the pedagogic implications of using discussion boards in your module. Whilst it is not a technical document, it does focus on the pros and cons of the discussion boards provided in