Using Screencasts for Teaching and Learning
Last week I ran a workshop on Using Screencasts to Enhance Teaching and Learning. Here’s a summary of what we covered. What is screencasting? A screencast is a digital video recording that captures actions taking place on a computer desktop. Screencasts, which often contain voice-over narration, are useful for demonstrating how to use specific operating […]
Does Linking to Content Infringe Copyright?
Copyright on online sources always seems to be a little bit of a grey area for many when it comes to making it available for students as part of learning resources. In all instances you ought to check with the Library on the legality of using or copying resources for your learning materials and students. […]
Copyrighted materials and your Course
One basic rule of thumb about copyright and whether you should post or load something to your Blackboard course … if you didn’t create it, you don’t have the copyright so should not load it to Blackboard. If you want to load, for example, a financial report which you have found on the Internet, the […]
Electronic Reading Lists @ Leicester
Reading lists have traditionally been added to Blackboard courses as either a Blackboard ‘item’ or as a Word / PDF downloadable file. Neither of these is particularly user friendly and certainly not ‘dynamic’ or helpful. Which is why Stephen and myself attended the Library training on Talis Aspire training on how to create and manage […]
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