How-to guidance
These articles give you practical guidance on using various learning technologies. If you’ve used any of these tools, feel free to leave a comment about how you employed them and whether you found them useful.
| Date | Title | Category | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 20, 2010 | Visualisers and Q-Review Many of you will have noticed Visualisers appearing in more and more lecture theatres around campus. They’re, in my opinion at least, a fantastic technolgy. They are extremely simple to use and have the potential to open up a whole new array of materials to a lecturer. They’re also very much under-utilized. (As a brief [...] |
How-to guidance | classroom technologies, Echo360, q-review, visualiser |
| January 10, 2010 | How to use microphones for Q-Review Probably the biggest hurdle we’ve encountered so far in the Q-Review lecture capture project is the disappointment of a really good lecture being delivered that gets played back in absolute slience. This short post outlines the steps that a presenter must go through to ensure that the audio for their lecture is recorded. |
How-to guidance | audio, Echo360, lecturecapture, microphone, q-review |
| September 22, 2009 | Getting your Blackboard course ready – Part 1 As we are approaching the beginning of a new academic year, many of you may be in the process of preparing your course areas on Blackboard before the start of teaching. This article is the first of two detailing the key tasks that you will need to undertake to ensure that everything runs smoothly. |
How-to guidance | blackboard, vle |
| July 24, 2009 | Archiving Blackboard Assignment Submissions If your students have been busy submitting their assignments in Blackboard throughout the year, you will have a large number of submissions that you’ll need to keep for a number of years to come. This post explains why you can’t leave old assignments in Blackboard and how to get them out. |
How-to guidance | assignment, blackboard, screen capture, vle |
| July 1, 2009 | Subscribing to the DELU blog You will find a number of feeds on this website that you can subscribe to, this article explains what you need to do. |
How-to guidance | camtasia, rss, screencasting |
| June 19, 2009 | What is RSS? What is “RSS” and why might you care? This article provides some explanation of the term. |
How-to guidance Introducing... | rss, subscribe, webtools |
| August 7, 2008 | Avoiding Plagiarism Avoiding Plagiarism A big concern amongst the academic community is how an increase in the use of learning technologies will increase instances of plagiarism. It’s true that with digital files, copying another student’s work is easier… with search engines like Google, copying from an online source is a fairly simple way of avoiding doing the [...] |
How-to guidance | plagiarism, Turnitin |
| June 9, 2008 | Annotating with a Tablet PC I was thinking about an alternative and/or portable solution to Interactive Whiteboards and I was trying to figure out if tablet PC’s were a good way to go. Especially if we’re considering them in conjunction with lecture capture solutions like Echo360. So I happened upon the video below which is a neat little movie demonstrating [...] |
How-to guidance Introducing... | Echo360, lecturecapture, PowerPoint |
| February 22, 2008 | Podcasting Regular podcasts are now commonplace in the news, entertainment and increasingly in teaching and learning. If you are interested in setting up your own podcast or want to know what they are, please see our resources below as a starting point. How to Podcast Using the Wimba Podcaster |
How-to guidance | audio, e-learning, podcasting, web 2.0, webtools |
| Accessibility in E-Learning The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) was extended to education in September 2002. This means that we are now legally obliged to ensure that teaching and learning at Queen Mary is accessible to disabled people. |
How-to guidance | accessibility, e-learning |