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My winning case study! It illustrates the approach we took to enable a large group of staff to develop the digital skills and knowledge required to confidently deal with a high volume of telephone calls and use software to fill vacant places in Clearing. The group had a mixed skill set and a short amount of time to gain new skills. Using the flipped classroom approach, factual and contextual information was delivered through online activities allowing for the maximum amount of classroom time to be dedicated to gaining practical digital skills. The case study describes what was done, the challenges involved and the solutions we found, impact on the learners and the wider university, and highlights ways this approach can be used at other educational institutions.

This free online SMART Technologies course follows on from our Introduction to Using Whiteboards course and goes into much more detail about the use of the Lesson Activity Toolkit and also gives the learner useful tips and techniques to help with editing and using the application. You will be shown examples of the different templates from image sequencing and matching to timelines and anagrams, and where there is flexibility in the use of an activity such as using the timeline for more than dates. This free online SMART Technologies course will be of great interest to teachers and trainers looking to make full use of the flexibility, interactivity and student participation allowed by an interactive whiteboard within the classroom or training room, and to all learners who would like to learn more about the functionality of interactive whiteboards within an educational setting.

This is a recording of a 60 minute online interactive presentation covering the basics of using free-to-use learning resources at NTU, on 17 January 2013.   The webinar gives a basic grounding in finding and reusing learning resources shared by others, and sharing your own resources, including copyright considerations and using Creative Commons licenses.  It highlights the benefits that these resources can bring to your work, gives examples of how they are being used by NTU colleagues and looks at how to use them.  This resource is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.   Copyright 2013 Nottingham Trent University

Forever switching between note taking and presentation view? You have a bluetooth keyboard? If you have a bluetooth external keyboard (and primarily have it paired with your tablet how about pairing it with your phone, using your note taking app (evernote in my case) on the phone and leaving your tablet free to view stuff on. Now why didn't I think of that earlier?

Ten collections of '7 things you should know about... ' related to L&T in HE. Accessible, interesting and through provoking

MIT and Harvard collaborate to provide lessons, quizzes, feedback and learning online, for free. Exciting stuff!!

The new khan academy!

Personal Learning Environments and the revolution of Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development http://t.co/1qGt1smJ

Informative and interesting article on identifying reliable sources of information on the web, and digital literacies.

Additional comment helpful :)

How the curriculum can help develop the skills and competencies needed in the world of work

How to approach large-scale change in assessment and feedback practice with the help of technology

Want to get started using technology in the classroom? Here are five easy to use tools with ideas about how they can support learning. Blogging (WordPress and Blogger), YouTube, Screencasting (ScreenR and Explain Everything), Edmodo, Google Drive.

Blog post from Jane Challinor sharing what it's like working with NOW v10 for the new term, and her approach to teaching first year students about digital citizenship. Really interesting and easy to read :-)

Great advice on approach for organising and sharing your incoming flow of information from social media.

Inspiration and ideas for providing learning resources online and in NOW

When you upload content to google dirve, you allow google to reproduce, modify and create derivative works of your content... read on.

Improving student success using predictive models and data visualisations http://t.co/c5Z8YnPq < paper on desire2learn beta - Martin Hawksey (mhawksey) http://twitter.com/mhawksey/status/241794423724310528

Guide on using Twitter in research and teaching

Social media for schools: a guide to Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest - useful #highered input http://t.co/DqU88Sz4 via @guardian - Sue Beckingham (suebecks) http://twitter.com/suebecks/status/228479909901774848

MT @cathylanderson: RT @CampusEAI: What education might look like in the next decade? Future of Educational Technology http://t.co/BQAHkrng - nancyrubin (nancyrubin) http://twitter.com/nancyrubin/status/228476391937695744