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The mass amount of information available online today makes it increasingly difficult and time-consuming to find the exact content that we want. Filtering through the content to find valuable resources is not an easy task. This is where content curation

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How Do I Check For Students Not In A Group?

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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

Richard October 17, 2013January 26, 2017 LTE Blog Read more

11 (Almost) Free Mind Mapping Apps for the iPad

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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

Russell May 8, 2013January 26, 2017 LTE Blog 4 Comments Read more

Questions in Blackboard – the Easy Way!

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Putting tests into your module is a great way of allowing the students to test themselves as well as letting you see the progress they are making…Here we offer a relatively quick and painless solution – use Microsoft Excel.

Russell December 10, 2010January 26, 2017 LTE Blog No Comments Read more

Perfecting PowerPoint (how can you not read this?!)

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We’ve all heard it, ‘death by powerpoint’, and we know that we might want to do things differently, or even break away from the whole 55 min standupandlecture thing, but it’s just so hard to do, right? For myself, I

Richard June 17, 2010January 26, 2017 LTE Blog No Comments Read more
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