Learning and technology

Simple steps for success in using Poll Everywhere in teaching sessions. Poll Everywhere is the online polling software to enable audience voting in in lectures. This guide supports the workshop 'Lectures: From Audience to Active Learner' provided by the Centre for Professional Learning and Development (CPLD). Available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 licence. Copyright Nottingham Trent University 2013.

A quick guide to creating questions in Poll Everywhere, the online polling software to enable audience voting in teaching sessions. This guide supports the workshop 'Lectures: From Audience to Active Learner' provided by the Centre for Professional Learning and Development (CPLD). Available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 licence. Copyright Nottingham Trent University 2013.

Round up of ways technology is being used to enhance traditional lectures in UK HEIs

Learn something new every day with twitter. Here are fifteen Twitter users who regularly share interesting science facts and pictures.

Some really useful apps for working across various devices, whether or not you want to work paperlessly.

Handy tools for creating shorter web addresses for easy sharing

Handy tools for creating shorter urls

Rough guide to using tech in teaching from Stuart Jolly

Some great slides to illustrate learning and teaching with a technology slant. All creative commons.

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.

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

Sort your personal professional social media presence in seven steps

use hashtags to Tag your work, make it findable, aggregate a conversation, join a conversation...

3 min video sharing ideas for more ways to use Snagit: visual communication, social media interest, quick ways to share information