Author: Claire Mellor, Lecturer in Cell Biology Teams, set-up & channels With Microsoft Teams now becoming the new go-to place for teaching at UCLan, many staff members are starting to think about the setup of their Module Teams. When it comes to group work (for example on one of my Read more…
Author: Steven Seymour – Service User and Carer Involvement Facilitator/Associate Lecturer in the School of Social Work, Care & Community at UCLan. Microsoft offers a wide range of information, courses and even certificates around digital learning and innovation. The platform allows you to utilise all it has to offer on Read more…
Author: Simon Hawkesworth – TELT ‘Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form …’ Robert Bringhurst (2008) Working with type online can be a deeply frustrating process for content developers, particularly if you’re used to the enormous range of options available in the world of Read more…
Author: Simon Hawkesworth – TELT It’s perfectly possible to create good online content with just text. Lots of online materials consist of just that, and there is much, in terms of concepts, explanations and discussion, that only text can fully represent. The often-used phrase about a picture painting a thousand Read more…
Author: Caroline Carlin – TELT In our next two Teams blogs, we’re moving onto meetings. Teams meetings have a range of features which are increasingly making it the tool of choice to host online meetings, lectures and seminars. This week lays the foundations with tips to get you up and Read more…
Author: Caroline Carlin – TELT Last time we focused on notifications, this week it’s all about how we organise and communicate with Teams. Channels Teams creates a central hub, pulling a wide variety of content together in one place – whether files, conversations, applications or websites. Before you get all Read more…
Author: Caroline Carlin – TELT Teams is a big application. With conversations, files, meetings, video conferencing and app integration it can do so much that it can sometimes feel a little overwhelming. So, over the next few weeks in our Tuesday Tutorial slot we’re going to tackle Teams head on Read more…
A guide to editing in Adobe Premiere Pro Author: Phil McMillan – TELT Having had many of you read my previous blog Five tips for filming with a mobile phone, I promised a life affirming follow up editing guide. This literary treat has been written with the analogy that video Read more…
Author: Colette Eaton – Lecturer and Placement Co-ordinator: Health & Social Care As the placement co-ordinator for our Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care, I am always looking for creative ways for our students to record their learning and development through their placement experiences. Up until two years ago, Read more…
Author: Kelly Stewart – Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education Arghh!!! As a positive person who loves working with lots of people, I’m finding working online is really difficult. Add to the ‘enforced happiness at home mix’ three active boys 9, 11 and soon to be 13 and it sounds like a recipe for disaster. My Read more…