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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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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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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 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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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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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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Earlier this month the Digital Learning team hosted the first workshop for the Hololens early adopter group. If you haven’t heard of Microsoft’s mixed reality headset, which enables users to interact with virtual holograms and real objects in the physical world, you
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I and two colleagues attended Panopto’s annual conference in London last week, a professional event with over 300 delegates at 30 Euston Square, an impressive building owned by the Royal College of General Practitioners. It was a far cry from
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Mid-module surveys are a great way to gain meaningful feedback from your students that enables you to take action and respond to any issues they raise. Vevox (formerly known as Meetoo) now provides a survey feature that makes it easy to
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By Daryl Peel It’s time to get out your diaries. Thursday 16th November 2017, at the staff club on Highfield campus. Opened your diary and got that ready? Good! So what are you getting ready to go to? The Digital
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by Daryl Peel Blackboard achievements have often been overlooked by learning designers, seen as a bit of a throwaway carrot to encourage students to take part in various activities in Blackboard. Admittedly, we need to be careful when implementing achievements
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In November’s e-coffee@SGH we explored some of the possibilities offered by H5P (https://h5p.org/) – a free, easy-to-use tool for creating interactive learning objects. H5P offers a range of content types, with activities produced in a mobile-friendly html5 format. We had a look at various
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Problems in education are rarely unique: my solution or experience might help you. That’s at the heart of ALT-C, the annual conference of the Association of Learning Technologists. A key theme of this year’s conference was “moving from the practical
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10 ways to ensure your digital media is effective every time. This short guide provides an opportunity for academics and expert contributors to think about the media that they create for courses, whether that’s video, audio podcast, illustration, photograph or
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By Adam Warren I have vivid memories from primary school in the 1960s, where the curtains in the main hall were drawn and in the gloom we sat and watched a BBC schools’ broadcast about volcanoes on a black-and-white television. Fast-forward
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At one of the first meetings that I attended at the University, a programme validation panel, I asked what mechanisms were in place for students to provide feedback and discuss their work. “My door is always open” came the reply
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This post was generated in preparation for a 5-minute talk for MEIN — Medical Education Innovation Network. Conference: Monday 25th September, University Hospital Southampton Podcasting is powerful, persuasive, articulate and easy to make, and a challenge to make well. Why? Firstly
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This week saw the launch of MEIN – Medical Education Innovation Network, with a half-day conference at the Institute for Development Sciences at University Hospital Southampton. The conference brought together health professionals, educators and students to discuss the future of medical
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Notes from the H5P conference, Tromsø, Norway, 11–13th September 2017 Empowering educators Around two years ago we were looking for ways to bring activities into web pages and increase the opportunity for students and educators to start to use WordPress
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On 14 September, the University’s RAP (Researching Assessment Practices) initiative hosted a conference that aimed to share some of the innovative work being done across the institution. It’s title was What Works in Assessment and Feedback: Simply Better, clearly signalling
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Why Virtual? The 2016 NMC Horizon Report described Virtual Reality in Higher Education as “…[providing] contextual learning experiences that foster exploration of real world data in virtual surroundings”. Interest in, and use of, virtual and augmented reality is
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Vevox (formerly known as Meetoo) is an online polling system that is being piloted on a large scale in the University this academic year, following successful initial trials. The aim is to replace the clicker (zapper) devices with
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Following up my post about uploading Storyline content to EdShare, this one describes how you can embed Storyline content on a page in Blackboard. You use the <iframe> function, which embeds one web page within another. This works for VGA
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Over the summer, you may be updating your module’s ‘virtual learning environment’ in readiness for the new academic year. If you are looking for inspiration, there is plenty on offer from this year’s Blackboard & VLE Awards. There has been
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by Daryl Peel The Playful Learning Conference in Manchester is run on an annual basis and for Learning Designers who focus on playful learning design it’s the highlight of the year. Three days of fun activities, inspiring keynotes, networking
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by Daryl Peel Newsletters have been coming out of various departments at the University of Southampton for a long long time and the Digital Learning Team is no exception. This post will appear once a month with the Digital Learning
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July’s eCoffee took us on a tour through some of the tools we have explored over the year, with a chance to catch up with colleagues who have been putting them into action. The LifeLab team have introduced the LifeSaver
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Who are you? The Digital Learning Team is made up of 12 people with a wide range of skills, expertise and interests. We challenge you to discover which of the team: is a Royal Television Society award winner went to
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EdShare is the University’s institutional repository for learning resources, making them accessible by all members of the University. This is in contrast with resources uploaded to Blackboard, which can only be viewed by students enrolled on the relevant module. Staff and students
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The ability to work as part of a team is an essential skill for graduates, and most programmes include opportunities for students to develop it through participation in group projects. This is not always an easy experience for students who are used to individual assignments, and there are often tensions around communication and contribution. In particular, students are very unhappy if team members perceived as ‘free-loaders’ get the same shared grade as those who have done all the work.
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