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Category: Events

eCoffee in 2021-22

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
2nd September 20222nd September 2022
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

It’s been a while since the “@SGH” part of eCoffee has been strictly accurate, but we’ve had another year of valuable virtual meet-ups.

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Blackboard and VLE Awards: 10th anniversary

Over a background of trailing glittery stars, text reads 'University of Southampton Blackboard & VLE Awards 2022'
6th May 20229th May 2022
Anna Ruff
Events

Our 10th Blackboard & VLE Awards gave us plenty to celebrate! In this post we reveal the winning courses and share some highlights from this year’s event.

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Reflection: ATHEN STEM Conference: Starting with Math

A variety of mathematical equations on a chalkboard.
23rd February 202223rd February 2022
Luke Searle
Creating Content, Events, News, Reflection

Recently, I attended a two-day conference where experts shared their best practices, solutions and techniques, for accessing and creating accessible STEM content in higher education. This conference will inform strategies for creating accessible STEM content. The event started at 05:00

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Building Community: Blackboard & VLE Awards

The Building Community Infographic that you can access via a link in this blog post.
18th February 202218th February 2022
Alison Ormesher
Events, Tech tips

For this year’s 10th anniversary of the University’s Blackboard & VLE Awards, there are 10 award categories for staff nominations. Here, we are sharing a ThingLink infographic based on the category of Best Community. This infographic has some key statistics

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Structure: Blackboard & VLE Awards

Text: Blackboard & VLE Awards - Structure with a cheerful female student working on a laptop in the background
19th January 202220th January 2022
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

Another 10-minute overview, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the University’s Blackboard & VLE Awards! In the video below we explore the Best Structure category, one of ten different awards on offer this year.

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Learner support: Blackboard & VLE Awards

Text: Blackboard & VLE Awards - Learner Support, with a cheerful female student working on a laptop in the background
19th January 202219th January 2022
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the University’s Blackboard & VLE Awards, we are offering awards in ten different categories this year. In the 10-minute video below, we delve into the Best Learner Support category.

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Blackboard and VLE Awards 2022

Text that reads Blackboard and VLE awards with a star trophy to the right of the text.
11th January 202211th January 2022
Luke Searle
Events

Rewarding excellence. The 2022 Blackboard and VLE award nominations are open. Nominate your module to be shortlisted today.

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A year of eCoffees

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
26th October 202126th October 2021
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

In person, eCoffee@SGH provided opportunities not only for peer learning and support with TEL tools and techniques but also for forging connections.  Since we’ve been meeting online, that opportunity has felt just as important – if not more so.  Sharing

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2021

Close-up of Excellence in VLE Awards trophy with text 'Winner 2021' and 'University of Southampton'
25th May 202111th January 2022
Anna Ruff
Events, Innovation

In a year of many challenges, one common story is that students feel short-changed by their online learning experience. It’s therefore been both heartening and humbling to receive 1235 nominations from students for our 9th annual Blackboard & Virtual Learning

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UDLHE Digicon 2021: Guiding this moment in HE

UDLHE Digicon logo
22nd February 202122nd February 2021
Tamsyn Smith
Events, News

On February 4th and 5th, Matt Deeprose and I took part in UDLHE Digicon. This was an online conference about Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Higher Education. It was our first time attending this event. The conference was wholly

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Attending the Immersive Learning Research Conference 2020

This is the main stage at the iLRN conference 2020.
13th July 202024th November 2020
Paul Blatch
Events, News

Captain’s Log:  June 2020 I find myself in a strange world. The inhabitants are sentient yet look like cartoons. They appear to be talking to me in my own language, asking me questions about my latest work in innovation. No,

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Attending the Kent Digital Accessibility Conference

Group of people having a video conference.
16th June 202024th November 2020
James Allen
Events, News

Like all current gatherings, the University of Kent and Kent County Council hosted this year’s Digital Accessibility Conference virtually. It ran from 9th to 11th June. In its second year, the conference aims to inform Public Sector organisations about digital

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2020

Close up shot of a woman using a laptop.
10th June 202024th November 2020
Anna Ruff
Events

The university’s Virtual Learning Environment Awards were particularly virtual this year, with winners announced via a Twitter event and a Special Edition Newsletter. Students’ insight throughout the process is key, with student representatives taking time to select a shortlist from

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What do this year’s Blackboard & VLE Awards tell us about remote learning?

Blackboard & VLE Award 2019 trophies
29th April 202015th May 2020
Anna Ruff
Events, News

At the point we launched this year’s search for examples of excellent use of virtual learning environments, we didn’t know we’d all be moving in!  With learning shifted to virtual spaces, it’s useful to reflect on what this year’s nominations

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Vevox @ Connect

Vevox graphic showing students participating in lecture on devices
20th February 202020th February 2020
Anna Ruff
Events

Amie Fletcher and Isabel Whitley from Vevox joined us for February’s Connect event, to share some updates and suggestions for making the most of Vevox in teaching. The slides from the sesssion can be downloaded below. Vevox also ran a

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2020

Excellence in VLE Awards trophies 2019
17th February 202017th February 2020
Anna Ruff
Events

Nominations for the university’s annual Blackboard & VLE Awards competition are now open, giving you the opportunity to feed back on what you find most helpful in a virtual learning environment, and to put forward examples of courses that do

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eCoffee @ SGH: Video meetings and tutorials

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
7th January 202013th January 2020
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

December’s eCoffee involved an experimental live event: could we run a session about video meetings simultaneously as a face-to-face session and online for remote participants? While this sounds like something that potentially could involve specialist equipment and planning, we took

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eCoffee @ SGH: Working more efficiently

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
25th November 201913th March 2020
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

Ahead of this month’s eCoffee we asked colleagues for recommendations for tools that support organisation, planning and efficiency, and took the opportunity during the session to try some of these out. Office 365 and Microsoft Teams Office 365 includes various

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VC Awards 2019: Behind the scenes

VC Awards trophy.
24th October 201916th May 2020
Sofia Bazzini
Events, News

At the start of October, we were invited to film the VC Awards 2019 at St Mary’s stadium. The VC awards are an event that members of staff at the University tend to look forward to and it is a

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Connect: VLE Swap shop

Excellence in VLE Awards trophies 2019
9th August 20199th August 2019
Anna Ruff
Events

Our guest contributors at July’s Digital Learning Connect event were well placed to offer insight into what makes a successful virtual learning environment, having both won university Blackboard & VLE Awards, as well as making it onto the shortlist each

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eCoffee @ SGH: Blackboard – what works well?

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
12th July 201915th July 2019
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

Medicine has seen continuing success over the seven years of the university’s Blackboard & VLE Awards, so in July’s eCoffee we explored some features of winning courses, sharing some ideas and inspiration ahead of the next academic year. Blackboard upgrade

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A pair of education conferences: SLTCC & INNOCONF

Illustration of a group of women sitting with notepads as if at a conference.
4th July 20191st December 2020
Tamsyn Smith
Events, News

I’ve been fortunate enough to attend (and present at) two education conferences in the last fortnight. Solent Learning and Teaching Community Conference 2019 First was Solent Learning and Teaching Community Conference. This event takes place annually on the third Friday

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eCoffee @ SGH: OneWeb and social media

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
10th June 201910th June 2019
Anna Ruff
Events

In May’s eCoffee session we welcomed back Ayala Gordon and Jonny Vaughan from the Digital Team, to discuss how we provide simple, accessible, relevant, useful information, not just via university websites but digital services as a whole. In keeping with

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Community of Practice: The basics of video production

Attendee trying out a camera
28th May 201925th February 2020
Mimi Lee
Events, News

As part of the Community of Practice sessions held monthly by the Digital Learning team, Joe Brett from the Digital Learning Media team presented an introductory talk on how to produce videos using modest filming equipment: a handycam/smartphone, audio recorder

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2019

Excellence in VLE Awards trophies 2019
7th May 20193rd January 2020
Anna Ruff
Events, News

This year saw our seventh annual Blackboard & VLE Awards, with students putting forward an impressive array of modules that offer valuable online support for their learning.  Students’ insightful comments about why a particular approach works, or the benefits of

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ecoffee @ SGH: Universal Design for Learning

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
10th April 20191st December 2020
Tamsyn Smith
Events, News

What is Universal Design for Learning? Why does UDL matter? To understand what Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is, firstly, we need to look back at the origins of Universal Design. Architect Ron Mace coined the term “universal design” to

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What’s next for edtech? BETT 2019

Several small robots.
26th March 201927th March 2019
Sarah Fielding
Events, Innovation

In January, Sarah Fielding and Chrissie Metcalf attended BETT – an education showcase event hosted by Microsoft. Bringing together 850 leading companies and 103 exciting new edtech start-ups, BETT gives its 34,700 attendees from the global education community an opportunity to

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ecoffee @ SGH: Virtual Reality in education

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
26th March 201912th July 2019
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

February’s eCoffee saw attendees taken on a series of virtual adventures, using Oculus Go headsets.  Recent university Virtual Reality (VR) projects include creating interactive 360 experiences from footage gathered on field trips.  This supports students in getting the most out of the trip by preparing

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eCoffee @ SGH: Panopto – not just lecture capture!

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
13th December 20182nd May 2019
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

Panopto: not just lecture capture was our theme for December’s eCoffee, looking at the various ways Panopto can be used to support teaching, learning and assessment. The university help pages for Panopto at http://go.soton.ac.uk/panopto are a great source to help you get started, and

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Christmas Challenge

Conifer and presents on a black boarder with the caption Digital learning Christmas challenge.
28th November 20182nd May 2019
Anna Ruff
Events, News

Throughout December we would like to invite colleagues to take part in our Digital Learning Christmas Challenge.  Each week there will be two challenges – one online, and one based in our Digital Learning office (35/2025).  The challenges will give you an

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