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Category Archives: E-Learning
PowerPoint – importing slides into a Master Slide template
PowerPoint – importing slides (Information adapted from office.microsoft.com) How do you give your PowerPoint presentation the theme of a SHU Master Slide? You can format your slides by importing them into your Master Slide presentation. Do the following: Begin by … Continue reading
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Deconstructing a PowerPoint
Have you ever wanted to deconstruct a PowerPoint? To be able to extract all the images and embedded multi-media resources, videos and audio. Here’s a way that you can easily get access to all the materials. 1. Create a copy … Continue reading
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Integrating a Padlet wall into your Blackboard site
Integrating a Padlet wall into your Blackboard site Grab your student’s attention on your Blackboard site. You can add functionality, interactivity and aesthetics to your Blackboard Module site by embedding iframes into it. This can include websites, Pinterest and Padlet … Continue reading
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Using Google Maps to display information
Google Maps can be used to plot data graphically. Custom maps can be created and data inputted to show the locations of organisations/information. Data collected via a Google Form and stored in a Google Spreadsheet can be used to populate … Continue reading
SEO Good Practice – Submitting your site to Google and Bing (Yahoo) for indexing.
Submitting your site to Google and Bing (Yahoo) for indexing. It is a good idea to create a sitemap and submit your site to both Google and Bing to make sure that your site is indexed correctly and appears in … Continue reading
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Collecting information via a form embedded on a website
Collecting data via a form is easy enough to do. Google forms can be embedded in to any webpage that supports iframes. This includes stand-alone HTML pages, WordPress sites and most Content Management Systems (CMS). Once you have created your … Continue reading
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Mobile Apps? Tablets in the Classroom? What App?
Is this what you see when you look at your students? Do you want to utilise more mobile technology in the classroom? Following the introduction of iPads into the classroom for academic year 2013/14, we now have a significant … Continue reading
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An Introduction to Sheets and Forms
A Google Spreadsheet is a great alternative to Excel. it is also cross compatible . You can copy data out of excel and add it in to a spreadsheet and you can also download a Google Spreadsheet as an .xlsx file. … Continue reading
Bringing Your Handouts to Life
Aurasma and CrazyTalk Making interactive handouts Students learning to use augmented reality to create CVs with a WOW factor She lifts the iPad and points it at an image. There is a purple swirl that morphs into a talking cat. … Continue reading
Socrative
Socrative is a smart student response system that allows students to respond to questions on their smartphones and tablets. The tag line on the Socrative website is ‘Engage the class’. Michelle Blackburn, a … Continue reading