• Have you used the Inclusive Digital Practices Toolkit?

    Learning Services have created the toolkit to support academic staff in the creation of accessible Digital Content. The toolkit includes quick tips, a checklist, user guides and some video case studies that showcase how teaching staff are using Digital Technology to support their students. We are submitting the toolkit for the Blackboard Catalyst Award for…

  • 68 Things to Help You Find and Use TV and Radio Broadcasts

    I don’t know if any of you have wanted to share broadcast materials with students. When I started working at Edge Hill the only legal way to do this was to get in touch with Jim in Learning Services, who would record the programme and put it on a VHS tape for you to show…

  • Learning Technology Highlights: October 2016

    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…

  • Rubrics… So what are they anyway?

    Recently in the Learning Technology Department we’ve been taking lots of calls and emails from staff wanting to use Rubrics in their teaching and learning but specifically, marking. What are they? Rubrics could also be called Grading or Marking Criteria.  I’m sure many of you are used to the grid system used to mark students…

  • Record and Share TV and Radio Programmes Online with Box of Broadcasts

    Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an online service which makes it easy for you to legally record programmes from the TV and Radio, and to make them available to your students online. Not only that, but you can access the recordings others have made, and students have access to record and share programmes themselves. You…

  • Audacity: Create Professional Audio Narrations for all your Learning Resources

    It’s usually around this time of the year when most of us free up some time to create or even review our learning resources for the new academic year. I know a lot of staff at Edge Hill are really starting to move away from standard PowerPoint based materials and producing some really engaging resources…

  • iSpring: Video Case Study 3 of 3

    iSpring Early Adopters Project: Video Case Study 3 In the Learning Technology Development team we’ve recently completed the early adopters’ project in the use of iSpring. Following on from Sertip and Maggies previous videos, we would now like to introduce Carl Simmons from the Faculty of Education. Carl shares his experience and advice from the iSpring…

  • iSpring: Video Case Study 2 of 3

    iSpring: Video Case Study 2 of 3

    iSpring Early Adopters Project: Video Case Study 2 In the Learning Technology Development team we’ve recently completed the early adopters’ project in the use of iSpring. Following on from Sertip in last month’s case study, we would now like to introduce Maggie Webster from the Faculty of Education. Maggie shares her experience in the iSpring…

  • iSpring: Video Case Study 1 of 3

    iSpring: Video Case Study 1 of 3

    iSpring Early Adopters Project: Video Case Study 1 In the Learning Technology Development team we’ve recently completed the early adopters project in the use of iSpring. Over the coming weeks we’ll be sharing the knowledge and experience of three selected participants who have successfully embedded iSpring into their eLearning toolkit and produced some impressive learning materials…

  • Using Classroom Voting Systems

    Learning Services have been supporting the use of the Optivote and TurningPoint classroom voting systems over the last eight years. Recently the sets have been moved from the Learning Technology Development offices in the LINC to the University Library. This change means that the systems can now be booked via the Loaning Equipment page on…