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Category: Tech tips

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.
25 November 201916 August 2023
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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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.
12 July 201916 August 2023
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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Three ways to create an engaging and effective learning experience

28 June 201931 May 2023
Simone Andorlini
Creating content, Innovation, Tech tips

Struggling to capture students’ attention? We live in a world where most, if not all of us, use technology all day every day. No matter what subject you are teaching, it’s probable that written or verbal information alone won’t get

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Using my phone to capture photos and videos

16 May 201916 August 2023
Mimi Lee
Creating content, Tech tips

I bought my Samsung Galaxy S8+ phone last March after reading reviews about its ability to take good quality photos and videos. Since owning it, I’ve not really had a chance to test it for producing videos at a professional

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Amazing new Adobe After Effects feature

Image of After Effects window on a screen
25 April 201916 August 2023
Sofia Bazzini
News, Tech tips

One of the main events within the media industry is the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) show that happens in Las Vegas every year.  Just before this event, audio visual equipment sellers release and/or announce new bits of kit, and updates

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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.
26 March 201916 August 2023
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.
13 December 201816 August 2023
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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eCoffee @ SGH: Using Microsoft Teams

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
5 November 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News, Tech tips

In October’s eCoffee we looked at ways Microsoft Teams can support collaborative working and learning.  Teams is part of Office 365 (https://www.southampton.ac.uk/365) and works in conjunction with Office 365’s SharePoint, helping build communication and context around documents stored here. Setting up After creating

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Interact with your students – via YouTube Live

Close up of a camera viewfinder on a dark background.
1 November 201816 August 2023
Mimi Lee
Creating content, Tech tips

The Digital Learning team have been involved in developing Open Online Courses, in collaboration with various faculties, for the past four years and have successfully completed approximately twenty courses during this time. They are hosted on the Futurelearn platform (www.futurelearn.com/)

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eCoffee @ SGH: Personal Professional Development module by Dr Siobhan Lynch

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
26 July 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News, Tech tips

We finished a year of exciting eCoffees with an inspiring session from Dr Siobhan Lynch.  Siobhan shared the story of the creation and development of the Personal Professional Development module for final year undergraduates, which is delivered predominantly online, while students are on

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eCoffee @ SGH: Communications and Marketing at UoS by Jonny Vaughan

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
28 June 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News, Tech tips

In June’s eCoffee, Jonny Vaughan, Ayala Gordon and Hayleigh Sidhu from the university’s Communications and Marketing team visited to share the work they’ve been doing shaping the university’s social media presence. New guidelines have been developed to support university users,

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eCoffee @ SGH: Abreast of Health by Caspian Priest

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
10 May 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News, Tech tips

Caspian Priest led May’s eCoffee, taking us on a fascinating journey through the development of an app for research and intervention.  The Abreast of Health study delivers a brief electronic intervention to women attending breast clinics, taking the opportunity to highlight links

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ecoffee @ SGH: Learner participation via Vevox and Nearpod

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
27 March 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, News, Tech tips

Clickers have provided a good way of involving learners more actively in lectures, and with mobile devices increasingly ubiquitous, quizzing, polling and feedback are becoming easier to integrate into taught sessions. At this month’s eCoffee session we explored some of

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ecoffee @ SGH: Kumu for mindmapping by Simon Fraser

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
9 February 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

Kumu In 2018’s first e-coffee session, Simon Fraser demonstrated Kumu, a powerful tool for creating mind maps. Kumu allows detailed mind maps to be built, with an underlying structure and customisation options, for instance colour-coding for different categories. Once completed, mindmaps

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Mindmapping software

Mindmapping on paper.
7 February 201830 November 2020
Tamsyn Smith
Innovation, Tech tips

Some people find mindmapping a really helpful way of getting their thoughts together. It’s possible to take a low tech approach with a pen and a piece of paper, but sometimes you need something collaborative or presented formally, which is

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Good quality sound to hear those Pipers piping!

12 Posts of Christmas. An image of an iPad surrounded by presents. Text on the iPad says 11 sound recordings.
18 December 20172 December 2020
Josef Brett
News, Tech tips

What makes a good video? Nice lighting, pretty pictures, interesting content? These all contribute, but something that is often overlooked is sound. There is a saying that states ‘50% of good video, is good audio’. It sounds so simple when

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On the 10th day, get organised to keep all your lords a leaping

iPad with the words '10 notes a keeping' on it to represent Google Keep.
15 December 20172 December 2020
learnsoton
News, Tech tips

Google Keep is a free, simple notetaking service with apps on Android and iOS, which can be also used on the web via a google account. Notes can easily be integrated with Google Docs.  I use an android phone, a

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Panopto for Student Presentations and Assessment

12 posts of Christmas: 9 presentations. An iPad surrounded by presents to represent Panopto presentations.
14 December 20172 December 2020
learnsoton
News, Tech tips

Improving assessment reliability and student experience with a particular focus on student feedback and opportunities for reflection A general criticism of many areas of learning in HE has been around the quality of student feedback. If students have taken part

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12 Days of Christmas – Wirecast Play for Live Streaming

iPad with the words '8 live streamed sessions' on it.
13 December 20171 December 2020
Josef Brett
News, Tech tips

We deliver many online courses, both open and private. In these courses, we have always thought that synchronous activities add value to the course. We cannot overuse them, because one of the points of making it online is that it

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7 easy post-processing steps to make your photos stand out

12 Posts of Christmas. An image of an iPad surrounded by presents. Text on the iPad says 7 photo edits.
12 December 20172 December 2020
Sofia Bazzini
News, Tech tips

Taking nice photos is part of our day-to-day life, thanks to super-duper phone cameras and reasonably priced cameras. But how do you take your photographs to the next level? The answer is post-processing. Here are a few easy steps to

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Active learning using Panopto recordings

12 Posts of Christmas. An image of an iPad surrounded by presents. Text on the iPad says 6 Panopto quizzes to represent active learning using Panopto recordings.
11 December 20172 December 2020
learnsoton
Innovation, News, Tech tips

Lecture capture using Panopto can help students revise, work around timetable clashes, catch up missed sessions and assist with a wide range of learning differences and disabilities. But this is still a very basic use of a technology that offers

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The 12 days of Christmas – AppBonanza – 5. Alfred and Wox

12 Posts of Christmas. An image of an iPad surrounded by presents. Text on the iPad says 5 gold things.
8 December 20172 December 2020
learnsoton
News, Tech tips

And this is the last post of the AppBonanza. I know it’s sad but you still have a few more days of apps, tech and other stuff to look forward to. This post will cover two apps: Alfred and Wox.

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The 12 days of Christmas – AppBonanza – 4. Apps for file sharing

12 Posts of Christmas. An image of an iPad surrounded by presents. Text on the iPad says 5 gold things.
8 December 20172 December 2020
learnsoton
News, Tech tips

In the modern world of hyper-tech, everybody has some type of mobile device be it iPhone, iPad, Windows mobile devices, and even more. Each of these devices uses a slightly different Operating System (OS), iOS, Windows, Linux, etc. the ability

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The 12 days of Christmas – AppBonanza – 3. PDF Expert and Adobe Acrobat Pro

12 Posts of Christmas. An image of an iPad surrounded by presents. Text on the iPad says 5 gold things.
8 December 20172 December 2020
learnsoton
News, Tech tips

2 apps instead of 1? You lucky people! I’ve decided to have a good look at some PDF Readers. The reason behind this is because we all need to read PDFs at some point or another and normally you do

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The 12 days of Christmas – AppBonanza – 2. Trello

12 Posts of Christmas. An image of an iPad surrounded by presents. Text on the iPad says 5 gold things.
8 December 20172 December 2020
learnsoton
News, Tech tips

How to get organised and keep track of your lists using Trello for project management. My line manager is asking what I’ve done this month, we spent over an hour discussing the projects I have been doing and showing my

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The 12 days of Christmas – AppBonanza – 1. Office 365

12 Posts of Christmas. An image of an iPad surrounded by presents. Text on the iPad says 5 gold things.
8 December 20172 December 2020
learnsoton
News, Tech tips

Today is a special day. Every two hours from 09:00-17:00 we will send you a new post with information and advice on some of the most useful apps available for mobiles, desktops and laptops. Get ready and read on! The

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12 days of Christmas – 4 Padlet walls

iPad with the words '4 Padlet walls' on it.
7 December 20179 April 2019
Sarah Fielding
News, Tech tips

What is Padlet? Padlet is an online pinboard. It does not require any installation – just an internet connection and it can be accessed from anywhere and on any type of device: mobile phones, laptops, tablets, or PCs. You can create and save

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Podcasting: Voice Recorder Pro 7, Bossjock jr, Opinion

12 posts of Christmas: 3 podcasts. An image of an iPad with 3 podcasts written on it, surrounded by presents to represent podcasting.
6 December 20172 December 2020
learnsoton
News, Tech tips

Podcasting is another wonderful way to bring Christmas cheer. Whether it’s sharing your conversations, creating a platform for your thoughts and ideas, finding friends and bringing them together; podcasting is a chance to draw audiences into your experience and talk

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What is Articulate Storyline?

iPad with the words '2 storylines' on it.
5 December 20172 December 2020
Mimi Lee
Tech tips

By now, you may have heard of Articulate Storyline being mentioned around the University. Alternatively, perhaps you know a colleague who has access to the software. If not then Articulate Storyline is authoring software used to build interactive content to

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On the first day…

iPad with the words '& a Post-it in a Plus app' on it.
4 December 20171 December 2020
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

During December the Digital Learning Team will each be sharing a top tip or tool, in a festive series of blog posts. We hope that our 12 days of posts will bring you a feast of ideas and examples to unwrap.

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