Category: Digital Literacy

  • As the new academic terms ramps up, we, reluctantly, say goodbye to our student digital champions: Back in March (pre Covid-19) we employed 17 students from across the University, as Student Digital Champions. The plan was for the SDC to work with us and their peers to gather feedback on the technologies used in learning and teaching, […]

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  • — This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — In TELMeD, we have decided to make more use of screencasts to provide both staff and students with quick helpful tips for a range of technologies we support; including the DLE, Pebblepad, and a number of our eResources. Screencasts are a great way of providing training […]

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  • — This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — On the 1st October, new laws surrounding copyright were finalised that aim to provide a more balanced approach to copyright in education to better fit our practices in the digital age. The agreed ‘exceptions’ that have always allowed us to use some copyrighted materials in teaching […]

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  • In the past TELMeD have worked in collaboration with our medical students to produce learning resources as part of their doctors as teacher (DAT) student selected component module, ranging from podcasts, video to leaflets and posters. This year we started to work in partnership with of second year Plymouth Uni computing students. This process began […]

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  • End to our student digital champions program (for 2020)

    As the new academic terms ramps up, we, reluctantly, say goodbye to our student digital champions: Back in March (pre Covid-19) we employed 17 students from across the University, as Student Digital Champions. The plan was for the SDC to work with us and their peers to gather feedback on the technologies used in learning and teaching, […]

  • What makes a good screencast?

    — This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — In TELMeD, we have decided to make more use of screencasts to provide both staff and students with quick helpful tips for a range of technologies we support; including the DLE, Pebblepad, and a number of our eResources. Screencasts are a great way of providing training […]

  • Useful copyright law changes for teaching and learning

    — This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — On the 1st October, new laws surrounding copyright were finalised that aim to provide a more balanced approach to copyright in education to better fit our practices in the digital age. The agreed ‘exceptions’ that have always allowed us to use some copyrighted materials in teaching […]

  • Student as partners and educators

    In the past TELMeD have worked in collaboration with our medical students to produce learning resources as part of their doctors as teacher (DAT) student selected component module, ranging from podcasts, video to leaflets and posters. This year we started to work in partnership with of second year Plymouth Uni computing students. This process began […]