We are pleased to announce that the eLearning Team has a small amount of funding available for individuals or teams to kick-start their technology based Teaching, Learning and Assessment idea. Proposals can be anything technology related; from software and hardware, to sharing good practice or “students as partners”. If you have …
Description PowToons is an online animated presentation tool that allows users to create animated video clips using a range of templates, images and transitions. The software is simple to use, making it ideal for teachers to create content, as well as being a useful tool for students to create presentations or display a …
Description Video conferencing is notoriously difficult to set up, maintain and use on a regular basis. However, with Appear.in the interface and settings are stripped down to a bare minimum, in order to make video conferencing much easier and simpler to set up. At the moment Appear.in supports up to …
Description Aurasma is a new concept in the ‘scan for more’ trend that is all over apps and websites. The app bases it’s premise on augmented reality, in where a trigger is scanned and a video, gif, or image then appears as an overlay. As the device moves Aurasma keeps …
Description Venngage is an online infographic creation tool. It allows the user to create beautiful graphics containing still images and live videos. Venngage has a bank of excellent templates that you can use to help you create not only useful, but attractive infographics too! Check out this example. [youtube_sc url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJxkLpN4I1I&rel=0;feature=youtu.be” …
Description Referencing can be a problem for many people when writing academic work. Whether you need help with layout of your references, with a specific type of referencing or just want to speed the process up, RefMe is here to help. Using the app you can scan the barcodes of …
Description Gojimo is a revision tool that covers a wide range of education levels, including GCSE and A levels. Each level has a wide array of pre-written quizzes that cover a selection of subjects such as Maths, English, History and many more. The platform is designed to enable revision in …
Description Adobe Spark Page (Formerly Adobe Slate) lets you create really nice looking webpages using a variety of imagery and text. It restricts the user to a number of themes which then manages their content for them – i.e the user cannot divert away from the theme. This means that someone …
Description Adobe Spark (Formerly Adobe Voice) allows you create video presentations with voice over. The information on the slide is supposed to be minimal and the voice tells the whole story, images and text are for key information or cues for what you are going to say. [iframe src=”//voice.adobe.com/a/Meebd/embed/” width=”100%” frameborder=”0″ …
Recently, Facebook has again changed their privacy rules. This means that we all need to be vigiliant about making sure our settings properly reflect the privacy levels we need. This is especially important if you mention Loughborough College in your public profile as you must behave appropriately when on the …
