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Tag: Employability

  • Social Media for Employability

    In an increasingly competitive job-market, using social media effectively can really help our students stand out from the crowd. What is social media? Social media refers to websites and applications where users create and share content, networking across like-minded communities. The most popular in the UK are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Why should my students […]

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  • eGo: make the web work for You!

    ‘eGo’ make the web work for you! from Flea Palmer Note: Presentation updated Feb. 2013 to reflect LinkedIn Profile changes and include Pinterest as a portfolio tool.. This new presentation was created in response to a graduate workshop I ran in collaboration with the Careers Department as part of their ‘Boost Your Confidence’ series of […]

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  • Facing the Consequences …with Viewbix

    To celebrate Safer Internet Day we present the movie ‘Facing the Consequences’ with added interactivity, enabled by Viewbix. Viewbix allows you to add a links to further information, in this case, Facebook’s Privacy Resources page. You can also add an RSS feed, in this example it points to Dan Schawbel’s ‘Student Branding Blog’; a QR […]

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  • Facing the consequences… a social networking horror story – the movie!

    Here is the final video as described in a previous post, which we hope will remind students how, in the real world, they have many different types of relationships with people and to be aware that this is also the case online. How you present your digital self is crucial, as is being careful about […]

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  • ELESIG SYMPOSIUM: Effective Learning in the Digital Age

    ELESIG (Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-Learning Special Interest Group) is an international community of researchers and practitioners from HE and FE who work together to share knowledge and practice. On Wednesday 6th October I attended the above event to find out about the work involved in the JISC funded SLiDA Project – a study of […]

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  • eGo – the new myBrand as an eBook

    myBrand aims to support and advise students in using the web to promote themselves and their work safely and confidently. It provides links to resources supporting e-literacy skills, identity-management, e-safety and legal considerations. Previously available as a webfolio, it has now been re-vamped and re-branded as eGo and is available as an e-book which can […]

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  • Social Media for Employability

    In an increasingly competitive job-market, using social media effectively can really help our students stand out from the crowd. What is social media? Social media refers to websites and applications where users create and share content, networking across like-minded communities. The most popular in the UK are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Why should my students […]

  • eGo: make the web work for You!

    ‘eGo’ make the web work for you! from Flea Palmer Note: Presentation updated Feb. 2013 to reflect LinkedIn Profile changes and include Pinterest as a portfolio tool.. This new presentation was created in response to a graduate workshop I ran in collaboration with the Careers Department as part of their ‘Boost Your Confidence’ series of […]

  • Facing the Consequences …with Viewbix

    To celebrate Safer Internet Day we present the movie ‘Facing the Consequences’ with added interactivity, enabled by Viewbix. Viewbix allows you to add a links to further information, in this case, Facebook’s Privacy Resources page. You can also add an RSS feed, in this example it points to Dan Schawbel’s ‘Student Branding Blog’; a QR […]

  • Facing the consequences… a social networking horror story – the movie!

    Here is the final video as described in a previous post, which we hope will remind students how, in the real world, they have many different types of relationships with people and to be aware that this is also the case online. How you present your digital self is crucial, as is being careful about […]

  • ELESIG SYMPOSIUM: Effective Learning in the Digital Age

    ELESIG (Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-Learning Special Interest Group) is an international community of researchers and practitioners from HE and FE who work together to share knowledge and practice. On Wednesday 6th October I attended the above event to find out about the work involved in the JISC funded SLiDA Project – a study of […]

  • eGo – the new myBrand as an eBook

    myBrand aims to support and advise students in using the web to promote themselves and their work safely and confidently. It provides links to resources supporting e-literacy skills, identity-management, e-safety and legal considerations. Previously available as a webfolio, it has now been re-vamped and re-branded as eGo and is available as an e-book which can […]