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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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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2019

Excellence in VLE Awards trophies 2019
7 May 201916 August 2023
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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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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Digital Learning supporting SOTSEF – Guest post

A small child wearing a VR headset and looking at the floor.
23 April 201926 April 2019
Sarah Fielding
News

At the SOTSEF Science and Engineering Day on Saturday 16th March, the Digital Learning team provided support to the Black Sea MAP stand with their Oculus Go VR headsets. These were used to take over 800 visitors, from 2 to

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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.
10 April 201916 August 2023
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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BVE 2019 – the unexpected trend towards AI

3d rendering humanoid robot with AI text in circuit pattern.
26 March 201916 August 2023
Josef Brett
News

The end of February was the annual Media Team trip to the British Video Expo (BVE) at ExCel in London. In the past, we have used the event to investigate new equipment, chat to other industry experts and learn new

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What’s next for edtech? BETT 2019

Several small robots.
26 March 201927 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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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2019

Postcard saying 'Have you voted in the Blackboard & VLE Awards 2019? There is a graphic of a hand on a laptop next to a phone.
26 March 201916 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News

Nominations are open for our seventh annual Blackboard & VLE Awards.   Students have the opportunity to feed back on what they’ve found particularly helpful to their learning and invite recognition of the staff who are supporting them in this way. A ‘virtual

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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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Accessibility for Articulate storyline – Are you WCAG compliant?

Close up of a pen and a notebook.
28 January 201916 August 2023
Mimi Lee
Accessibility, News

Here in the Digital Media team, we are busy updating our eLearning content to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG 2.1) AA level to ensure that our learning content is usable by the majority of learners. I am mindful

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Merry Christmoose!

Digital Learning's soft toy moose.
17 December 20182 May 2019
Anna Ruff
News

As part of our Christmas Challenge this week, can you locate the Digital Learning ‘reindeer’ in the pictures below?  Ten pictures are on Highfield Campus (let us know the location or building number) and two are elsewhere (let us know which

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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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Christmas Challenge

Conifer and presents on a black boarder with the caption Digital learning Christmas challenge.
28 November 201831 May 2023
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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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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Using graphics to help redesign the Online MA in Blackboard

Banner for the MA in English Language.
18 October 201816 August 2023
Mimi Lee
Case study

I am so excited to share with you a Blackboard design project that I recently worked on for Charlotte Everitt, Senior Teaching fellow in Modern Languages. Charlotte was in the process of migrating the MA in ELT: Online programme from

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Virtual Reality for UoS Open Days

A woman wearing a VR headset.
17 October 201816 August 2023
Sarah Fielding
News

Why Open Days? At Open days we want to give prospective students and their parents a strong sense of the UOS experience and showcase our unique selling points when it comes to Programmes of Study. For courses which include a

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Case Study: LEGO Serious Play

Studio shot of Lego minifigures set up as if having a board meeting and analyzing a chart.
17 October 201830 November 2020
Tamsyn Smith
Case study, Innovation

I learned of LEGO Serious Play in a Playful Learning Workshop organised by Digital Learning, and I immediately decided to give it a go. As a consequence, I borrowed three LEGO kits from the Digital Learning team. Then I tried

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Digital Learning on location: Dale Field course, Wales

9 October 20187 May 2019
Sarah Fielding
Creating content, Innovation, News

Scene setting Following our attendance on the BIOL1001 Fieldcourse in Spain earlier this year (outputs are still in production), the Digital Learning team was invited to attend the SOES2030 Dale Field Marine Biology Fieldcourse in West Wales. Our mission was primarily to capture

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Blackboard Workshop Series, Avenue Campus and WSA

Montage featuring Goldilocks, three bears, chairs, porridge and beds.
19 September 201830 November 2020
Tamsyn Smith
Events

Colleagues are invited to attend the Blackboard Workshop Series, taking place every Wednesday from 19th September to 3rd October at Avenue Campus. The same series will also run at WSA, dates and times TBC. These workshops are designed to meet

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Oculus Here we GO!

5 September 201816 August 2023
Mimi Lee
Creating content, Events, Innovation

One of the best things about my job in the Digital Learning team is that I get to play/test new technology to enhance learning. One new emerging technology is the Oculus Go Virtual Reality headset. In the past we have built

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UoS success celebrated in e-learn, the official Blackboard magazine

4 September 201830 November 2020
Tamsyn Smith
News

Following the success of the University’s Excellence in VLE Awards, Blackboard decided to feature staff from the University of Southampton in their latest issue of e-learn. Each issue has a particular theme. The topic of this issue was Education Insights. Read

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Ready, Steady, Go!

A bleak future for the real world? Image copyright Amblin Entertainment.
17 August 201816 August 2023
Sarah Fielding
News

Ready (Player One) The novel by Ernest Cline (and now a major 2018 feature film) sets out a future where most of humanity uses virtual reality software “to escape the desolation of the real world”. Sounds grim? Smartphones and tablets have become deeply

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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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Reflecting on practice – CPD for Learning Designers (CMALT)

Certified Member of CMALT badge.
6 July 20182 May 2019
Sarah Fielding
News

Here in the Digital Learning team, a number of the Learning Designers are working on completing our CM-ALT portfolios. Becoming a Certified Member of the Association of Learning Technologists is “a peer-based professional accreditation scheme developed by ALT to enable

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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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Five Podcasts for Education, Technology and Learning

Podcast concept on laptop and smartphone screen over wooden table.
22 June 201831 May 2023
Stephan Caspar
Creating content, Innovation

I’ve been a fan of podcasting since I downloaded my first few shows almost a decade ago, and over the past few years at the University of Southampton, we’ve promoted listening and encouraged academics and students to start their own

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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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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2018

Blackboard & VLE Awards 2018 trophy
10 May 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, News

The 2018 Blackboard & VLE Awards bring the competition into its sixth year, showcasing some consistently good practice and some innovative approaches to delivering blended learning. Students had the opportunity to put forward course sites that  made a real difference to

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Forthcoming ELESIG webinars

ELESIG logo - a circle of people with the words Learner Experience Research in the centre of the circle.
30 April 201830 November 2020
Tamsyn Smith
Events, News

ELESIG webinars may be of interest to you. ELESIG is a community of researchers and practitioners from higher, further and skills sector education. We are involved in investigations of learners’ experiences and uses of technology in learning. If you would

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