Author: Beverley McCormick – Educator and Advisor, ClickView Delivering lessons online has become an integral part of teaching, and it doesn’t appear to be going away any time soon. As with any teaching, it is important that we take time to stop and reflect on our practice. We need to Read more…
Author: Beverley McCormick – Advisor, ClickView During the last two years, the consumption of video as a valid means for supporting learning has skyrocketed. As the nation downloaded video on a scale never seen before, the quest to seek out and use higher quality digital media content also grew. Many teachers demonstrated their digital prowess by Read more…
Authors: By Emma Gillaspy @egillaspy, Abhi Jones @AbhilashaJones, Gemma Spencer @gemmawhite84 and Julia Robinson @JuliaRobbo73 (UCLan) What? Did you know that escape rooms are a growing phenomenon? They usually involve a group of people locked in a physical or virtual room, often based around a chosen theme. The overall aim is to escape from the room, but to achieve this they must work Read more…
Author: Laura Ridings, eLearning Developer, Centre for Collaborative Learning In my previous life as a secondary school teacher, there were certain rules that I had in my classroom for anyone designing for print or screen 1. No comic sans font 2. No fluffy bunnies or cartoon flowers 3. Nothing unnecessary Read more…
Author: Simon Hawkesworth – CCL Learning Enhancement (Digital) One of the impacts of or recent experience of Covid has been generation of huge range of materials designed to help staff understand the many options, technologies and process surrounding online teaching and learning. Some of that information had to be quickly Read more…
Author: Debi Spencer – Senior Lecturer and Digital Development Coach (School of Sport and Health Sciences), University of Central Lancashire As an institution, we are now 13 months on from lockdown and remote working in higher education, due to the COVID19 pandemic. The drive to provide a meaningful and engaging Read more…
Author: Matt Coombe-Boxall – Online Learning Technologist, Staffordshire University They stand out It has long been reported that images and visual media can boost the reach of social media posts. Twitter even make this claim on their Analytics page: It’s now unusual to look at a social media feed without Read more…
Connecting ThingLink to Microsoft Teams for synchronous content options in online simulation Authors: Sam Pywell – Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, University of Central Lancashire Dr Abhi Jones – Phase 2 Evidence Informed Practice of Medicine Theme Lead and Clinical Lead for Interprofessional Education, University of Central Lancashire Thanks to colleagues Read more…
Author: Kevan Williams – TELT At times it may feel quite difficult to find even an ounce of positivity or optimism surrounding the global Covid pandemic, but even in the darkest and most challenging of situations, the green shoots of opportunity can be found. We have witnessed a dramatic uptake Read more…
Author: Laura Ridings – TELT Back before the Pandemic hit us Kelly Stewart, Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Training approached the TELT team looking for a solution in creating a central online resource that could be used across the North West region by those involved with the UCLan Teacher Education Read more…