Hot Desk: Poster Download
For the latest dates and to book a dedicated 30 minute session with either David or Stephen please use the Hot Desk Booking Form on the University’s main website. Please contact David Hopkins or Stephen Walker if you would like a high-resolution PDF version of this A3 poster for download and printing.
Report: “Providing viable and flexible technology enhanced learning solutions for an increasingly agile student community”
Date: May 3rd, 2013 Location: University of Derby Details: “Providing viable and flexible technology enhanced learning solutions for an increasingly agile student community”. This event was hosted as part of the Higher Education Academy’s Workshop and Seminar Series 2012/2013. From the beginning it was easy to see why this event had attracted so many leaders […]
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Blackboard: The Voice of an Active Learner [video]
“Do you recognise me? Very soon I will be your student, but I will not always sit in your classroom. I will not take out a pencil or open a textbook. You grew up with books, I read from a laptop, an iPad, a smart phone. I use a keyboard more than a pen. I’m […]
Presentation: “Improving the Student Experience Through Blackboard in the College of Social Science”
In March 2013 Stephen and myself were invited to present to the Brown Bag Lunch seminar series on the enhancement of the student experience through Blackboard and Learning Technology (LT) in the College of Social Science. Accompanied by Korin Grant (Economics) and Matthew Higgins (Management) we presented the College model of LT support, and our […]
Case Study: Module Evaluation Surveys
With the decommissioning of the well-used paper scanner the Department of Economics approached the College’s Learning Technology Assistants to help them develop and deliver an online electronic alternative of the Module Evaluation Surveys. Using Blackboard’s in-built survey tool the questionnaire was quickly built and deployed for students to access and complete, on several key modules throughout […]
Twitter for Teaching and Research
I recently began a Master’s degree in Digital Education with University of Edinburgh. The first module is Investigating Digital Environments for Learning, and one of the environments we looked as was Twitter. In a tutorial the course tutor, Prof Hamish McCleod, said that when he first encountered Twitter he just “didn’t get it”. I also […]
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 […]
Blackboard Users’ Conference, January 2013
The 2013 Blackboard Users’ Conference was held at the welcoming University of Durham. With a full programme of research and experience from around the UK both College Learning Technology Assistants, David and Stephen, were able to attend and participate in the activities. Presentations this year covered all aspects of Blackboard use, as well as a […]
The new ‘Content Editor’
The upgrade to Blackboard 9.1 (service pack 8) last year brought one update that I think everyone has been waiting for … the new text editor. Here are a few pointers to making the most of it: Options for text and font formatting are more tightly controlled – it’s more difficult to change font and […]
Case Study: Online Assessment Marking and Feedback
With the growing popularity of marking assignments and providing feedback to students online we developed a series of workshops with supporting materials in Autumn 2012. Along with the workshop materials and hands-on time with Turnitin and online marking & feedback we provided two postcards as ‘take-away’ materials with tips and reminders of aspects of Turnitin […]
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