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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

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.

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.

Useful list of don'ts for students using social media

"After School: 5 Apps Your Students Are Using When You're Not Looking" To help me focus in the after lunch dip, I think I might try "Write or Die" to start deleting the words I have typed, if I am not being productive enough!

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

List of useful tools and some good examples of how they can be used

Allows you to have a useful desktop linking to all the tools you regularly use.

Article on some ideas for using mobile devices for ice breakers

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.

Really useful way of displaying the uses of particular technologies

Nice collection of activities for educators o use on an ipad

Students are selective about the media they use to communicate with academics... http://t.co/pUxKOm3Y

New Post: Do any of you use @scoopit ? We think you'll like it! http://t.co/9tUQ2fTT #ebshare - edublogs (edublogs) http://twitter.com/edublogs/status/241577129194684416

JISC models for the use of ePortfolios

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

Practical ways for students to use social media to develop their professional reputation and online presence.

Research into electronic course templates for use in HE

If like me you sometimes ignore reminder alerts that are triggered by your calendar you might find this option handy. 

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?