On the 5th of February I attended the LSIS technology conference in Birmingham. Loughborough College was due to hold a workshop on how they have used iPads to support teaching and learning titled “Big bikes, Cars and Tablets – Using iPads in Motor Vehicle Studies”. Mark Hucker was the lead …
The first of our Special Interest Groups (SIGs) was held on 19th February between 12:30-1:30. The topic that was being discussed was Flipped Learning. Thank you for all those who attended the first SIG, I hope that you found it interesting and useful – I know I did! It was …
As standard, the shapes feature on Powerpoint or Word only give you the option to draw a rectangle or oval. However there is a really simple trick to get a perfect square or circle. This short video shows what you need to do: [youtube_sc url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DqbAz95_EY&feature=BFa&list=PLCFC7B1C66DAD2050″]
What is a blog? A blog is a term that is derived from the phrase Weblog. Blogs are a collection of posts made by a user or users reporting news quite often on a particular subject but can be on a wide range of subjects. In addition to the author of a …
MyZone is your own area of LearnZone whereby the courses that you have editing rights for, or are enrolled on are displayed. You can use this area to quickly find certain courses. This video shows you how it works: [youtube_sc url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4yqKTxCpjk&feature=BFa&list=PLCFC7B1C66DAD2050″]
By creating this Hints and Tips category, we aim to support both Business Support and Academic staff through their use of technologies. A new post will be released each week with a short video showing you exactly how to do it. Hopefully these will provide you with some answers to …
If you ever need to send a link of a website to colleagues or learners it can sometime look messy if the link is pretty long. You can however shorten this link which can make it look a lot tidier! Not only this, but by shortening URLs you can also …
As of 13/02 we have upgraded LearnZone to a newer version. You will notice that some of the things on your course page may look slightly different and there will also be some different features that should help enhance your teaching and learning but also make using LearnZone easier! So …
Instead of using multiple windows when having a number of different things open, such as a number of websites, you can use Tabs instead which will make using webpages much easier. Regardless of whether you are using Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox or any other browsers tabs can be used …
StaffZone is the online training area which has been designed to complement the current face to face staff training at the College. Its main aim is to offer easy access to mandatory training and a range of support on Learning Technologies and Teaching and Learning. A secondary aim is to …
