We’re very pleased to announce that you can now add videos from Vimeo via the Mashup tool into your module! The mashup tool greatly streamlines performance and lets you get videos directly into your module with very little effort. Blackboard
Using groups in Blackboard is a great idea to get students working together on projects. Groups in Blackboard come with a host of features like blogs, the ability to share files amongst group members, the ability to email other group
MOOCS seem to be talked about by everyone these days. Just what is a MOOC? Basically, it stands for Massive Open Online Course. It’s a free course that’s held totally online across the world. Literally anyone can sign up for
This short blog will quickly go through what you need to do to embed your YouTube video directly into a PowerPoint presentation. That is, the video will appear directly in the presentation slide and not just be a link to
In this article we’re going to take a quick look at getting your PowerPoint presentation to view on your iPad for free. You can always email your PowerPoint to yourself and open it up directly from there but this doesn’t always look great and is basic to say the least. The suggestions below are not comprehensive but will hopefully give you a few ideas.
Mind mapping is a method that works for quite a lot of people. Brain storming, idea mapping, thought generation, think tanks – call it what you will. Traditionally done on large pieces of paper, why not use your iPad to
I recently attended the first day on the 13th annual Durham University Blackboard USer Group Conference, which brings together many colleagues working in the field of TEL to share good practice. There were a number of sessions I was particularly
In yesterdays meeting, I presented a very short piece about my current experiences with using the iPad. To summarise: The biggest issue for me personally has been the lack of Adobe Flash support and issues with using HTML5. Creating “apps”
Introduction Before I begin, this post is not a debate about the pros and cons about flash or HTML5. It’s just going to be about my experiences of converting a flash app into HTML5 in order to get that flash
During the OER project meetings I’ve been sitting and thinking. In the olden days I used to make little resources – things like animations or spreadsheets that illustrated some abstruse aspect of analytical chemistry or simple web pages. At the time I
