Tag: Web2.0

  • Using Facebook & Twitter to connect with students from Technology Enhanced Learning

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  • PebblePad3, due to be launched in July this year, combines Pebble+, a revamped version of the personal learning space we’re already using, with a new institutional environment, ATLAS, which replaces the current Gateway system to support active teaching, learning and assessment. There are also plans to launch a brand new Community/ Social space in 2013 […]

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  • 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! 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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  • Drag the map with your mouse. View in full screen by clicking on the icon. Mindmapping: Mindmapping is really a graphical method of planning or taking notes. They can be really useful for brainstorming and planning content. They can also be used as a presentation tool at conferences – see Andy Black: ‘Mobile Learning & […]

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  • 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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  • eGo: using the web safely & confidently to promote yourself through networking on Prezi A workshop presentation introducing students to tools on the web to enhance professional social networking How to view… Press the play button (grey arrow) to start the presentation. Next click on the circle icon to centre the presentation and click on […]

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  • 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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  • Social Bookmarking

    Social Bookmarking enables you to save, organise and share your bookmarked pages. As tools are web-based, you can view your bookmarks from any computer. Diigo is one such free tool that allows you, once you have registered, to download a toolbar so that you can quickly and easily save, annotate and share your bookmarks. Another […]

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  • UsPaCe: Not reinventing the wheel but using the wheels to make a better vehicle: the use of Web 2.0 to enhance the support Foundation Degree students undertaking work based learning.   As part of its Evidence Based Practice Employability and Employee Learning Seminar Series, the HEA is sponsoring a seminar at the University of Plymouth […]

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  • UsPaCe – Web2.0 Tools

    UsPaCe was funded by the JISC under the JISC Capital Circular 1/07: Cross Institutional Support of Lifelong Learning programme and was a regional, cross-institutional, collaborative project that investigated the application of suitable Web 2.0 technologies to support: Foundation Degree (FdSc, FdA and HNC) learners engaged in Work Based Learning (WBL); learners progressing from Foundation Degree […]

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  • Overview of how Facebook (pages) & Twitter can be used by University Support Services to connect with students

    Using Facebook & Twitter to connect with students from Technology Enhanced Learning

  • Introducing PebblePad3… (updated 2013)

    PebblePad3, due to be launched in July this year, combines Pebble+, a revamped version of the personal learning space we’re already using, with a new institutional environment, ATLAS, which replaces the current Gateway system to support active teaching, learning and assessment. There are also plans to launch a brand new Community/ Social space in 2013 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Mindmapping with MindMeister

    Drag the map with your mouse. View in full screen by clicking on the icon. Mindmapping: Mindmapping is really a graphical method of planning or taking notes. They can be really useful for brainstorming and planning content. They can also be used as a presentation tool at conferences – see Andy Black: ‘Mobile Learning & […]

  • 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 […]

  • ‘ME’ time: making the web work for you creatively

    eGo: using the web safely & confidently to promote yourself through networking on Prezi A workshop presentation introducing students to tools on the web to enhance professional social networking How to view… Press the play button (grey arrow) to start the presentation. Next click on the circle icon to centre the presentation and click on […]

  • 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 […]

  • Social Bookmarking

    Social Bookmarking enables you to save, organise and share your bookmarked pages. As tools are web-based, you can view your bookmarks from any computer. Diigo is one such free tool that allows you, once you have registered, to download a toolbar so that you can quickly and easily save, annotate and share your bookmarks. Another […]

  • HEA sponsored seminar on Web2.0

    UsPaCe: Not reinventing the wheel but using the wheels to make a better vehicle: the use of Web 2.0 to enhance the support Foundation Degree students undertaking work based learning.   As part of its Evidence Based Practice Employability and Employee Learning Seminar Series, the HEA is sponsoring a seminar at the University of Plymouth […]

  • UsPaCe – Web2.0 Tools

    UsPaCe was funded by the JISC under the JISC Capital Circular 1/07: Cross Institutional Support of Lifelong Learning programme and was a regional, cross-institutional, collaborative project that investigated the application of suitable Web 2.0 technologies to support: Foundation Degree (FdSc, FdA and HNC) learners engaged in Work Based Learning (WBL); learners progressing from Foundation Degree […]