All Edge Hill University staff now have access to the Lynda.com video training library. You can use it to help you develop your skills in areas as diverse as music, social media marketing, animation and Office 2013.
This resource would cost you over £300 per year if you paid yourself, so it is well worth a look. We have a guide to logging into Lynda.com, should you need help.
If you think that it would be a useful resource to use with your students, get in touch with us at [email protected]. We have limited student accounts, and need to keep track of use, but we can provide you with guides and support as you and your students learn to use the resource, and to help you integrate it with Blackboard.
We saw the first use of the Plickers sets that we laminated this month; Sarah Wright used them with a group of students.
Just one device & @plickers makes for real time formative assessment! pic.twitter.com/4uS7hyIXk8
— Sarah Wright (@Sarah__wright1) October 4, 2016
Plickers are another option when you are choosing student voting systems. Students respond to a multiple choice question by holding up a code card, and they can rotate the card to select their response. The lecturer/facilitator uses an app on their phone to detect the responses.
You might want to use Plickers instead of online solutions like Kahoot:
- where you do not want to expect all students to have a charged mobile device
- when you do not want students to have their mobile devices switched on
- in locations without a wireless network
If you want to know more or use Plickers with your students, get in touch with us at [email protected].
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) has returned from its summer redevelopment, and as of October 31st you should find all the features that you are used to, including embed code for the videos so that you can embed them in Blackboard.
BoB makes it easy for staff and students to request the recording of programmes from the TV and Radio, to access and share those recordings, and to access millions of other recordings that have been made using the service.
Our Box of Broadcasts guide should help you get started, as will the BoB video tutorials.