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
Royalty Free Music for Free
Embed Word Documents into Blackboard
In this post we’re going to look at one way in which you can embed your Microsoft Word document into Blackboard. By embed we’re talking about not just attaching a link to the Word document. We’re talking about a way
15 Sites to Help Concentration
Introduction There are times when you just need to concentrate. However, there are also many times when noise gets in the way. You might be working in a busy office, or trying to study in the library. Noisy interruptions can
10 RSS Embeddable Widgets
In this blog post we’re going to take a quick look at 10 RSS widgets that you can embed directly into your Blackboard module. What is RSS? RSS stands for either Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. It allows
VideoNot.es – take synchronised notes whilst watching videos
VideoNot.es is a free, open-source online tool which allows you to take notes whilst watching videos from various online sites such as Coursera, YouTube and Vimeo. All of the notes you type are automatically synchronised with the video. This means
Content Curation Services
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
Expectations for online teaching
I’ve done this before, and I don’t see any reason why not to model good practice again. Jason Rhode has blogged the video below, and I can’t really phrase it any better. Although it is all really common sense, it’s