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Screencasting Formative Feedback
How one tutor increased students’ engagement with feedback. In this video blog post Carl Simmons explains why assessment is so problematic and suggests how tutors can increase the amount of useful information that students receive using screen and voice recording software. The issues are: Good quality feedback consumes significant tutor resource; Students tend not to…
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Learning Edge Upgrade Success!
The scheduled summer upgrade has been completed successfully and you can now login to Learning Edge as normal. The upgrade introduces a number of improvements – most significantly a new true student preview and anonymous & delegated grading options. Where can you learn more? As mentioned in a previous blog post, the LTD team will be hosting…
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Summer 2014 – Blackboard Upgrade Awareness Webinar
Summer each year allows a window of opportunity for Learning Technology to update Blackboard to the latest version, containing new features and fixing a number of niggles. This year, the upgrade will occur on the evening of Sunday 20th July into the morning of Monday 21st July. During this time, there will be no access…
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Accessible and Inclusive Design: iSpring Version
For those who couldn’t make it to the recent session on creating accessible content I thought it would be worth making a version of the session available. In the session we looked at how content uploaded to Edge Hill’s Learning Edge online learning environment can be created in ways that make it more accessible to…
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Yeti Pro Blue Microphone – a beast of a microphone!
LTD recently purchased a mammoth of a microphone to help with recordings of screen casts and other materials and also to offer it to staff who are developing their own content for teaching and learning. The Yeti Pro microphone, manufactured by the legendary Blue Microphones, is a stunning microphone to record with giving clear crisp recordings straight…
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LTD Hot Desks
Come along to the LTD office to use our Hot Desk PCs. The Hot Desk PCs have dual screen monitors for working with Blackboard and creating graphic, audio and video materials for teaching and learning. They are loaded with teaching and learning software such as iSpring and Camtasia, and have high quality microphones and headphones. We also…
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A Knight’s Tale – ebooks the ultimate creation
Learning Service’s Learning Technology Development Team wanted to find out if it is possible to create an eBook of course content and distribute it to students without publishing through a 3rd party but via the institutional Virtual Learning Environment (Blackboard), as a way of providing media rich content which can be downloaded to their device.…
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Learning Edge Upgrade 20-21 July 2014 – What’s coming this summer
The summer is on the horizon, bringing with it not only better weather but a better Learning Edge too! We are currently working with Blackboard to introduce a number of new features which will improve your experience and use of Learning Edge. The upgrade will introduce exciting innovations as well as improvements to core capabilities, some…
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Award Winning Staff Development!
Learning Services have been named a winner of the 2014 Blackboard Catalyst Award programme for Staff Development, which honours all those involved who have leveraged Blackboard technologies to internally support the ‘Developing Digital Excellence’ program and those who delivered an array of professional and innovative training sessions to Edge Hill University staff. The Staff Development…
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Developing Digital Excellent staff development programme
Here is your chance to get involved in our award winning programme. Sorry couldn’t resist mentioning we have won a prize!. (There will be more news and information in a blog post next week when Mark Wilcock gets back from the Blackboard Conference with the award). We have a number of events in May within…
