• Blackboard World Conference – Part 2

    Part 2 of the Blackboard World 2015 conference in Washington DC – National Harbour Conference Centre, 20th-23rd July Product Roadmap – Jim Chalex, Director of Product Management (Blackboard) This morning (or afternoon in BST!) we heard from Jim Chalex, Director of Product Management at Blackboard. He outlined the product roadmap for Blackboard Learn 9.1, in particular the…

  • Blackboard World Conference – Part 1

    Washington DC – National Harbour Conference Centre, 20th-23rd July John Langford and myself were invited to present at the Bb World Conference this year, demonstrating all the good work that Learning Services have been doing to customise and target content for our students by Faculty and Department. We thought it would be a good idea to…

  • 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…

  • A Great Alternative to Using the YouTube Mashup Tool

    I developed a great way of creating links to YouTube and similar sites that works well for desktop and mobile users. Just use a Web Link with a description. Here are the steps: Get the URL link for the video from YouTube. For example you could try it with our ‘Learning Edge Welcome Video‘ Go…

  • Learn to produce a screencast ….. or find out how to support, tutor and teach your students online

    During July, through the Digital Practitioner strand of the Developing Digital Excellence staff development programme, Learning Technology Development (LTD) are offering a range of sessions which can show you how to achieve all this and more! For full session descriptions and to book on a session, click on the appropriate title below: Quick and Easy Screencasting Tuesday 30 June 2015…

  • Linked Out…

    Have you ever come across a broken link to an external website? Annoying isn’t it? Especially if the content you want to access has moved to a different location, requiring you to start searching all over again. Fortunately in Blackboard this is now a thing of the past! As a tutor you can check the validity of…

  • Blackboard 9.1 summer upgrade 2015

    The 2015 Blackboard upgrade will commence from 7:30 pm, 12th July (Sunday) to 7:30 am, 13th July (Monday). Blackboard will be unavailable during this period. This upgrade will provide the annual updates to back-end functionality and security and ensure an even better stability of the system and its components. Blackboard will be available from 13th…

  • LTD on Location – English and History

    Recently, I popped into the Department of English and History to discuss the upcoming academic year (Yes! we really do start that early!) and as a result of a brief conversation about what the department needs from Learning Technology, we came up with a great idea for me to be based in the department for…

  • More peer review = More feedback. What’s not to love?

    A SOLSTICE discussion and webinar with Sarah Honeychurch and Gill Ferrell this Friday at 12pm. “Peer review is an important alternative to teacher feedback, as research indicates that both the production and the receipt of feedback reviews can enhance students’ learning without necessarily increasing teacher workload.” (Nicol, 2013:103). A wealth of literature supports Nicol’s assertion: Zingaro…

  • 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…