This is part of a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning (view other articles in the series). We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. Screenshots are a way of taking a picture of what is currently on your computer screen. However you don’t…
This is part of a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning (view other articles in the series). We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. Twitter and microblogging is the topic today. Twitter is a company and website which allows users to keep a…
This is part of a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning (view other articles in the series). We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. Google Scholar is our item of interest today. It would be hard to have not heard of Google (just…
This is part of a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning (view other articles in the series). We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. This article continues our look at some local Sheffield Hallam terms by explaining what we mean by Remote Desktop. The Remote Desktop…
This is part of a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning (view other articles in the series). We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. Today’s topic is RSS, which stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. However, just knowing what it means is not terribly…
This is part of a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning (view other articles in the series). We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. Today we’re looking at the F drive and G drive. One staff member mentioned to us that it was…
This is part of a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning (view other articles in the series). We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. Today we’ll look at the term ‘wiki’. Wiki means ‘fast’ in Hawaiian. In keeping with their name, wikis are groups…
This is part of a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning (view other articles in the series). We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. Today’s focus is on ‘mobile apps’, which are applications for which can be run on mobile devices. Mobile apps are…
This is the first in a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning (view other articles in the series). We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. ‘Blogs’ are the first term we will be looking at. Blog is a word derived from the phrase ‘web…