Following on from my last blog post on Quick Wins, there’s been quite a lot of interest in the use of Twitter in the teaching room. I’ve started using and telling colleagues about the free Powerpoint Twitter tools developed by Timo Elliott from SAP. You can download these from http://timoelliott.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools . The tools are embeddedRead more
Academic colleagues are under such pressure from all quarters these days that it’s hardly surprising many find it difficult to invest time in learning how to use new technologies in their teaching. That said, there are plenty of ‘quick wins’ out there – tools and techniques you can try out relatively easily, without adding toRead more
Dr Gregory James is a Lecturer in Economics within the School of Business and Economics. He has been a Turnitin user for several years now and describes here his experience of using it formativly. My own personal approach to dealing with plagiarism in my teaching practice and strengthening my students’ academic writing skills is focused on:Read more
Having recently conducted an audit of all modules on Learn, we are aware that some modules really do push the boat out and try out new things. If you are one of those who specifically make use of social software for instance wikis or Facebook within your module then a new JISC-funded project is lookingRead more
I was invited to the University Learning and Teaching Committee yesterday to give a short presentation on how learning technologies can be used to deliver feedback to students. This is an area in which students themselves (and their Union representatives) can see opportunities for much more use of technology. In my presentation I covered aRead more
Since we started publicising the availability of the BoB (Box of Broadcasts) service, colleagues have been asking how to include programmes or clips in their module pages on Learn (Moodle). For the moment, the ’embed clip’ feature in BoB is not fully compatible with Learn (it’s currently only working in Firefox) BUT this is not reallyRead more
We’ve just finished trawling through every single module on Learn for the purposes of auditing against the Minimum Module Online Presence (MMOP). The revised MMOP was approved by Learning and Teaching Committee last year and, compared with the previous version, introduces modest additional requirements such as the presence of a reading list on the University Reading ListRead more
Colleagues with modules on Learn (Moodle 2, for people reading this outside Lboro) will by now be aware that the way files are managed has changed. We recognise that the new approach to file management in Moodle 2 has caused some frustration among module tutors familiar with the approach in previous versions of Learn / Moodle.Read more
Most people, if they use Internet Explorer at all, will be using version 8 or above. However, if you are still using version 7, perhaps at home or on an elderly laptop you need to be aware that TurnItIn will no longer support IE7 from January 2013. You can check which version you have byRead more
Following my previous post on the BoB (Box of Broadcasts) service, I can now confirm that the service is live and available for staff to use to enhance their teaching. The response from the first colleagues I’ve shown it to has been fantastic – one senior academic said it would ‘transform his teaching’. In order toRead more