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Andy Ramsden’s (University of Bath) introductory keynote at last weeks Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference highlighted a relatively new technology that is QR Codes. A QR (Quick Response) Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese Corporation

Richard January 13, 2009January 26, 2017 LTE Blog No Comments Read more

Twitter in Education

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I use it, Stephen Fry uses it, 10 Downing Street uses it, even Barack Obama uses it, so why aren’t you? Twitter is a free service that lets users broadcast short messages to a group of people. “Tweets”, as they’re

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‘Clickers’ – automated response tracking in the classroom

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When I first arrived at Teesside, some people had been looking at investing in clickers, but somehow they’ve never taken off. We’ve seen a few different products over the years, and had a rather frustrating discussion with one company last

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7th Annual Blackboard Users Conference

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The 7th Annual Blackboard Users Conference took place at the University of Durham on 14th and 15th December 2006 – the theme being “The Power of 2”, focusing on the use of Web 2.0 technologies. The E-learning Team very unselfishly

Richard December 22, 2006January 26, 2017 LTE Blog No Comments Read more
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