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Tag: Innovation

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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Recipe for a good VLE site

A plaque from from the VLE awards with a star in the left corner.
30 March 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, News

2018 has seen another substantial haul of nominations for our Blackboard & VLE Awards, with students sharing the numerous ways course sites have supported and inspired their learning.  It’s evident that many courses do this well, and after careful consideration

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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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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2018

Have you voted in the Blackboard & VLE Awards 2018 postcard showing a graphic of a hand on a laptop next to a mobile phone.
27 February 201816 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News

Nominations are open for our sixth 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: 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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Hololens workshop: at the edge of innovation

Hololens unit.
30 November 201715 August 2023
Sarah Fielding
News

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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ecoffee @ SGH: H5P for creating interactive learning objects

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
7 November 201715 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Creating content, Tech tips

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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Reflecting on ALT-C

Two women looking at a laptop with the caption 'Reflecting on ALT-C'.
2 November 20179 April 2019
Anna Ruff
Innovation

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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Preparing for the future, Innovative teaching in Medicine

The Medical Education Innovation Network logo.
28 September 201716 May 2020
Stephan Caspar
Innovation, News

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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Such a Playful Conference 2017

A joystick and eight cables plugged into a black box with blue lights.
1 August 201714 October 2019
learnsoton
Events, Innovation

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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ecoffee @ SGH: Innovative tools in action

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
26 July 201715 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

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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ecoffee @ SGH: Tools, projects and platforms that can engage students by Callum Taylor

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
22 June 201715 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

Final year medical student Callum Taylor led this month’s e-coffee@SGH session, with an inspiring look at some of the tools, projects and platforms that can help engage students.  It was packed full of useful tips and information and showcased some

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ecoffee @ SGH: Making videos by Dr Scott Border

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
26 May 201715 August 2023
learnsoton
Tech tips

(Scott Border @ SGH, 2017) May’s e-coffee@SGH was all about making videos and had one of the best turnouts with attendees getting excited to see Dr Scott Border from Anatomy within Medicine discussing his journey creating podcasts and videos for

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2017

The Blackboard and VLE awards 2017 logo.
16 May 201715 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News

Now into its fifth year, the 2017 Blackboard & VLE Awards competition has seen an increasing number of courses supported by exemplary use and design of their virtual learning environment.  This year’s awards event featured a mix of familiar and new faces:

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ecoffee @ SGH: Twitter for Scientists by Penny Lee

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
4 May 201715 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

Twitter was a popular theme for April’s e-coffee@SGH, with a great turnout to hear Penny Lee from Medicine’s Marketing team share lots of tips for top Tweeting.  Penny gave a brilliant presentation ‘Twitter for Scientists’, explaining what might be the

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2017

The Blackboard and VLE awards 2017 logo.
3 May 201715 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News

Students have contributed a record number of nominations for this year’s Blackboard & VLE Awards, sharing valuable feedback about what is most useful in a course site.  It is evident that many courses offer students a fantastic online learning experience alongside the

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ecoffee @ SGH: Some AR and VR tools

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
17 March 201715 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

In this month’s e-coffee@SGH session, Daryl Peel from the Digital Learning team demonstrated two tools that can help users familiarise themselves with a physical space, or even use a physical space to help familiarise users with a topic. ActionBound offers

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ecoffee @ SGH: Thinglink by by Sarah Fielding

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
13 February 201715 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

February’s e-coffee session was led by Sarah Fielding, exploring possible uses of Thinglink, a tool for making interactive diagrams and videos. Signing up for a basic account gives you access to upload 2D images and label these with a series of

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ecoffee @ SGH: 12 apps of Christmas

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
21 December 201615 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

December’s e-coffee@SGH explored some of the 12 apps of Christmas recommended by Dublin Institute of Technology and Regent’s University London. Both discuss how the apps suggested can be used in education, with case studies and examples. Sway is increasingly being

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ecoffee @ SGH: Tools for creating quizzes and games

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
2 November 201615 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

e-coffee@SGH builds on the iPAD coffee clubs that previously took place at SGH, exploring the use of mobile devices, but also sharing wider experiences and ideas around the use of technology. This month we looked at tools for creating quizzes and simple

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2016

A plaque for the winner of the 2016 excellence in VLE awards.
6 May 201615 August 2023
Anna Ruff
News

The fourth annual ILIaD Blackboard & VLE Awards event brought together colleagues from across the university who have inspired their students by the quality of their VLE provision. With a record number of courses nominated, the judging panel had the

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iPAD Coffee Club at SGH

A tablet and a cup of coffee on a table.
29 April 201615 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

At April’s iPAD coffee club Adam Warren (Senior Learning Designer, ILIaD) joined us to demonstrate various apps in response to requests raised at previous sessions. The conferencing tool Adobe Connect is useful for webinars and is licensed for up to

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iPAD Coffee Club at SGH

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
4 March 201615 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

After last session’s inspiring introduction to Nearpod, it was great to hear that the Allergy team have been using this in their new ‘Teaching the Teachers to Teach’ module and it is being well received by students. This month’s iPAD

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iPAD Coffee Club at SGH

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
4 February 201615 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

At SGH’s first iPAD coffee club of 2016, Andrew O’Malley, Stuart Morton and Lucy Law demonstrated Nearpod. The CLAS team have been using this to deliver interactive teaching sessions in Anatomy. Students enter a code to receive the session presentation

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iPAD Coffee Club at SGH

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
11 December 201515 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

At a festive-themed iPAD coffee club we explored some of the 12 apps of Christmas recommended by the Dublin Institute of Technology. Andrew O’Malley has tweeted further details of apps recommended in response to various questions raised during the session.

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iPAD Coffee Club @ SGH

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
18 September 201515 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

This month’s iPAD coffee club focused on recording lectures and tutorials, with Veronica Hollis explaining how Panopto is used to support the MSc Allergy course. The Panopto app allows students to re-watch their lectures, with the slides accompanied by an

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iPAD Coffee Club @ SGH

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
10 July 201515 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

The focus of the latest SGH iPAD coffee club was looking at how social media can be used in teaching and research, with some inspiring examples from within the faculty. Catherine Hennessy explained how students on the NLM2 module had

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iPAD Coffee Club @ SGH

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
27 May 201515 August 2023
Anna Ruff
Tech tips

It was great to have a record seventeen attendees along to the latest iPAD coffee club at SGH, with a range of devices. We talked about how new users might set up their devices to support them at work: Setting

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