Using Mentimeter with Collaborate to facilitate questioning in hybrid teaching
Using Mentimeter in hybrid teaching so that questions and answers can be shared with both on-campus and remote audiences at the same time.
feedback
How to download an audio-only file from Panopto
This article outlines how to download an audio-only file from Panopto. You may want to use audio files in Xerte resources you make, for example, in which case the smaller … Read more
Interactive seminars, tutorials and drop-ins using Blackboard Collaborate
Whether you’re using a flipped learning model, facilitating group work or just wanting to give your students some individual support, online interaction can be done through Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. Here … Read more
Delivering effective feedback in higher education
Learn more about current feedback practices using our guide to effective feedback in HE.
Delivering effective feedback in PebblePad
Our new resource introduces you to six effective HE feedback practices, their benefits and how you can implement them in PebblePad.
Three great things about PebblePad
There are lots of good things about PebblePad (and a few not so good, too!) and in this article I will share with you my top three.
Using Collaborate Ultra for one-to-one sessions
The term ‘webinar’ is perhaps mostly associated with meeting with a group of people, however the technology used for webinars can also be used very effectively as a way of … Read more
Feedback Icons in Blackboard Collaborate webinars
Encouraging students to use the feedback icons not only keeps them engaged, it gives you feedback too
Blogs
A blog is a website which usually takes the form of a series of posts arranged in reverse-chronologocal order, i.e. the most recent post appears at the top of the page. Students writing their own blogs, commenting on other people’s blogs, and consulting blogs written by experts in their field are common learning activities in Higher Education today.
What’s the difference between wikis and blogs?
For several years now wikis and blogs have both been widely used in Higher Education. Both are platforms for easily publishing material to the web and both provide a platform for feedback. Both are ideal for learner-centred activities with learners taking part in collaborative tasks aiding knowledge construction. And both can be used to deliver rich content for learners to absorb.