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Author Archives: Jason Ruffell
Google Forms – Choice Eliminator 2
Do you need a booking system that automatically removes options once they have been chosen? One way is to use a Google Calendar. How to set up your booking system on Google Calendars can be found here. However, Google Calendars … Continue reading
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draw.io
draw.io (https://www.draw.io/) is a quick and simple web-based app to create: diagrams charts layouts mind-maps network diagrams venn diagrams room layouts …and much more. Diagrams can be saved directly to your Google or One Drive as HTML files to keep … Continue reading
Posted in Blackboard, E-Learning
Tagged chart, diagram, draw.io, drawing, mind-maps, venn
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Rip to Zip
Have you ever received a PowerPoint presentation, .ppt, .pptx, or show, .ppsx or similar and not been able to listen to the embedded audio? This is usually due to the codecs needed to play the file(s) not being installed on … Continue reading
Designing for dyslexia
When creating resources it’s important that the content is accessible to all learners. This article in Design Week has some useful insights in designing for dyslexia. The style guide (below) is a good starting point. British Dyslexia Association: Style Guide … Continue reading
YouTube Voice
So you’ve decided to make a short vlog to introduce your module or deliver some content. You’ve sourced a camera/phone/iPod/iPad and microphone* and selected a location to shoot it. You’ve created a rough storyboard and know what you have to … Continue reading
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Tagged filming, linguistics, podcast, presenting, speech, video, vlog
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Serious Gaming
Wouldn’t it be useful for employability if students could have experience of running a business before leaving university and having to do it for real? ‘Serious Gaming’ is filling that gap; allowing students to learn from their mistakes in a … Continue reading
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Tagged gaming, serious, simulation
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Using video
Barry Lyndon released in 1975 show-cased Stanley Kubric’s mastery of cinematography. Shooting scenes by candlelight required special attention. Kubric acquired three Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f0.7 lenses from Zeiss, lenses designed and built for NASA’s Apollo lunar programme to film … Continue reading
Mobile Technology – digital sketchbooks
‘‘Study for the Last Supper” , Leonardo da Vinci, 1495-97 We all have in our pockets more technology and processing power than people had 10 years ago, even myself who decided to join the 21st century and finally invest in a … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, mobile phones, photography, recording, sketchbook, smart phone, video
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Spanish Short Film Festival at Sheffield Hallam University
The languages department are proud to present the 4th edition of the Spanish Short Film Festival -Sheffield Hallam University. The Festival is the celebration of a project completed by students of Spanish ULS Stage 5 at Sheffield Hallam University for which … Continue reading
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Tagged festival, film, short, spanish
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MOS Awards
Students receive their certificates from Andrew Lenehan, Regional Account Manager at Prodigy Learning. Students celebrate attaining their Microsoft Office Specialist awards in Excel The Finance, Accounting and Business Systems (FABS) have been organising and delivering the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification … Continue reading