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Annotating in Office Lens

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..

Russell November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 LTE Blog No Comments Read more

Asking questions in a lecture using the FFL Toolkit

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…

Russell November 1, 2018November 1, 2018 LTE Blog No Comments Read more

Upcoming Sessions to Support Your Learning and Teaching Needs

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The Academic Registry – LTE team offers a number of professional development opportunities for academic staff. Our CPD sessions are especially designed to meet the needs of our academic staff…

Daniel April 18, 2017April 18, 2017 LTE Blog, News No Comments Read more

Lighten the Assessment Feedback Workload with the Batch Feedback Tool

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We all know assessment and assessment feedback is a crucial aspect of any accredited programme of study.  Allowing students to get feedback on their work enables them to identify not only areas for improvement but also highlights the great work

Debra March 14, 2017March 14, 2017 LTE Blog No Comments Read more

Vibby: Re-Purposing Video for Teaching & Learning

Vibby: Re-Purposing Video for Teaching & Learning

Have you ever discovered a really useful YouTube video but then realised only certain parts of it are relevant? This is where Vibby comes in. Vibby is a free online tool which allows you to take any existing YouTube video, trim it, and highlight the moments that matter so that you can more effectively use video within your teaching and learning…

Richard August 18, 2016May 22, 2017 LTE Blog Read more

Introducing Office Mix

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Office Mix is a free plugin for Microsoft PowerPoint that offers a simple way to turn your PowerPoint slides into interactive online sessions and presentations. This is a great solution for anyone who wants to produce “screencasts” or “lecture casts”

Richard June 27, 2016May 22, 2017 LTE Blog Read more

Revamped Batch Feedback Tool

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A new version of our popular Batch Feedback tool was released on Blackboard last month. This new version provides a revamped user interface and new functionality, offering an improved user experience.   Original Version The Batch Feedback tool was originally

Richard June 7, 2016January 26, 2017 LTE Blog Read more

Royalty Free Music for Free

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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

Russell December 7, 2015January 26, 2017 LTE Blog No Comments Read more

Is technology a gimmick?

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I quite like this post on the ISTE website asking “Is technology a gimmick in your classroom?” It gives a reasonably useful set of yes/no questions to answer, and then you add up the yeses at the end to get a

Richard April 7, 2015January 26, 2017 LTE Blog 1 Comment Read more

Screenshots from Microsoft Outlook 2013

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Microsoft Outlook 2013 has some very nice new features but one that I’ve been finding very useful is the inclusion of a screen grab facility. There have been many times when I’ve needed to be able to send a screen

Russell December 16, 2014January 26, 2017 LTE Blog Read more
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