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?
The work of the eLearning team has been mentioned again in a blog post by the East Midlands Learning Technologists group which is supported by the national Association of Learning Technology. This group, and the blog site, aims to promote the work of Learning Technologists in the East Midlands and it is …
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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 …
Internet bot: An Internet bot, also known as web robot or simply bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher and faster rate than would be possible for any human. alone
Cloud computing: is a phrase used to describe a variety of computing concepts that involve a large number of computers connected through a real-time communication network such as the Internet. For example: Google docs is a type of cloud solution that allows users to work, share, collaborate and save work/documents …
e-portfolio: An electronic portfolio is a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a user, usually on the Web. It usually contains written text, images, files, links to video and audio files hosted on the web. For example: Mahara is an e-portfolio that we use here in college. It …
High contrast: This is a way to alter how you view online/computer content. It is an accessibility feature that is built into most computer and allows people with vision impairments or specific learning needs to change the size and colour of fonts and the background for ease of viewing. For example: You may alter …
Prezi: an online presentation builder that lets the user create highly visual and animated presentations which can be shared via email or viewed online/offline or even shared through Facebook. This relatively new medium (which was first developed in 2009) had over 500 million Prezi presentations viewed online this year. Example: for examples …
