Useful accessibility options in Windows 10 and Office 365
We recently took part in a very useful and well-attended meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technology group that discussed the use of Microsoft Office365 in teaching. This included a review of the accessibility features built-in to Windows 10 and Office365. I’ve selected a few of these that might be useful to share more widely. […]
Using and Learning from Top Hat – a short post about our recent workshop
We recently put on a workshop ‘Using and Learning from Top Hat’. We found out about the problems and pitfalls of using Top Hat, but also how it can promote engagement, improve the experience of students and help lecturers to assess learning. Most importantly, we found out how planning for engagement fundamentally changes the way […]
Enhancing our use of Blackboard – Ideas from the Bb Teaching and Learning Conference 2018
In this post I want to share some ideas from the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference I attended in Manchester last week about how we can enhance our use of Blackboard . It was a very diverse conference with 264 participants from 22 different countries. Topics ranged from the potential of using large amounts […]
Implementing Lecture Capture – What are we Learning? Monday 11 September 2017
Lecture capture is not new. We know this. We have been running pilots at various scales for several years now. However, last September, the University of Leicester took a major step in implementing lecture capture across the institution. This has been a major undertaking and demonstrates the type of cross-institutional collaboration that we need to make […]
Implementing lecture capture event 11 Sep 2017 – Staff and Student panel
The ‘Implementing lecture capture – what are we learning‘ event on Monday 11 September 2017 ended with a panel of staff and students from the University of Leicester, including representatives from Chemistry, Criminology, Medicine, IT Services, Management and Psychology. Questions were posted by delegates to the event’s Padlet. Discussions covered how students use recordings, […]
Implementing lecture capture event 11 Sep 2017 – Pedagogy, Practice and Policy discussions
As part of the ‘Implementing lecture capture – what are we learning‘ event on Monday 11 September 2017, we held discussions on the theme of Pedagogy, Practice and Policy. The Pedagogy, Practice and Policy discussions started by considering institutional policy and whether the use of lecture capture is on an opt-in or opt-out basis. […]
An Academic Literacies Approach to Digital Literacies
This is an account of my initial attempt to find learning theory to underpin and inform the development of our Digital Literacies framework and its implementation, as part of the LLI’s involvement in the university’s Digital Campus strategy. I drew upon literacies research and on the conclusions from my own MSc research into the […]
VoiceThread – voice discussions and assessments in Blackboard
VoiceThread is an online collaboration and sharing tool that you can use within Blackboard. It allows you to share images, documents and videos to which others can add audio, video or text comments. You can draw on the screen while you are talking to highlight what you are talking about. You could use VoiceThread […]
Learning more about digital accessibility
I recently completed a MOOC called Digital Accessibility, run by the University of Southampton through FutureLearn. I decided to do this course to broaden my understanding of how to make digital content and technology accessible. I was aware of some aspects, such as providing captions on videos and alternative text for images, but I learned […]
PowerPoint doesn’t kill presentations – people do
Bent Meier Sørensen, a Professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen University wrote an impressive article in The Independent last week about using PowerPoint (and social media) in teaching. It was impressive in that it could have been a killer parody of techno-phobia and -determinism, written by someone who actually knows what they’re […]
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