Have a look at this Facebook infographic, courtesy of Webpage FX, that aims to show current trends and opinions about recent Facebook privacy settings. How do you feel about Facebook privacy settings? Do you trust that what you put online can only be seen by the people you want it to?
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Staff at Loughborough college are getting involved in Safer Internet Day on the 11th of February. This is a national day aimed at students to promote awareness of the safer use of the Internet, social media and online platforms. Throughout the day there will be plenty of opportunities for …
Today the team has kindly been mentioned by JISC RSC in regards to the current eSafety work we have been doing within Loughborough College. It has been a rather splendid project to work on and we are all very pleased with the result. The next stage is the version aimed at the teaching staff, which will …
If you would like to have a go at a really clever Christmas quiz from the mind of Matt in the eLearning team, follow this link: http://goo.gl/UFv24w Merry Christmas!!
A survey by IT firm Logicalis says that teenagers now own 6 digital devices and some 28% of the 1,004 13- to 17-year-olds questioned feel ICT is key to their future career. The research, was originally designed to establish the “digital footprint” of teenagers today, its recently published suggests that young …
The annual FOTE conference was held on the 11th October at the Senate House in London. It is a conference that aims to showcase, highlight and discuss trends and technologies that will impact on pedagogy and education in the future. This year’s conference covered a wide range of …
Recently a member of the eLearning team was lucky enough to attend the 2013 turnitin conference at the Leeds School of Music. For those who are unfamiliar with turnitin- it is a piece of software for teaching staff that checks academic work for plagiarism, we use it here in the college to check for …
“Exploring the identity of a Learning Technologist through the analysis of language” This is a current research project conducted by Loughborough college and the University of Leicester, it will investigate what it means to be a Learning Technologist within further education- looking at identity, route into eLearning, skill-sets, expectations, …
A recent article entitled ‘We post nothing about our daughter online’ struck the eLearning team as it highlighted just how much of our private life we give up to the online world without too much of a second thought. The article gave a specific example of pictures of young children …
