The eLearning team
Introducing the eLearning team! Please visit our Meet the team page to find out about us.
Essential Outlook shortcuts
Here are a selection of nifty Outlook shortcuts to get your heads around! These are just a selection of the shortcuts available within this programme so if there is one that you know and that you would like to share then please add it to the list by using …
Want a basic step by step guide?
Again another offerring from the people at BBC Education, WebWise is a free online step by step resource which aims to help new or uncertain internet users to gain confidence and develop their digital literacy skills. This very basic step by step guide takes you through the practicalities of setting …
16+ online resources free from the BBC
The BBC education site has been busy producing online resources for post-compulsory education, and the good news is, they are available and free to download from the link below! Whether you need a quick revision resource to help your students engage with effective revision techniques or whether you just want …
Boring university lectures ‘are doomed’ says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
According to the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, the custodian of the worlds biggest online encyclopaedia, the first major casualty of the online learning revolution will be the “boring” university lecture. This is unless universities respond to the rising tide of online courses (MOOCs) as new major players emerge to …
VideofyMe app uses Twitter to help young get jobs
A scheme to help young people gain employment through social media has been launched. The VideofyMe app allows job hunters to record a video CV which is uploaded to Twitter. Employers can search the hashtag #employme to find applicants. The project is being launched with London-based …
First paperless public library to open in the US
The world’s first completely paperless public library is scheduled to open this summer in Bexar County, Texas, in the United States. The BiblioTech is a low-cost project with big ambitions. Its first branch will be in a relatively poor district on the city of San Antonio’s South Side. It will …
Apple’s App store is celebrates fifth birthday
Happy Birthday Apple App store! Yes it may seem hard to fathom that the app store is soon to be celebrating a fifth birthday. After launching in July 2008, the App Store has seen 50 billion apps downloaded by Apple users. As a birthday treat on the 10th of July …
A handy little offering
After a fitness app to track your progress? iMuscle 2- iPhone edition This app is a clever little visual app that tracks your health/fitness programme. iMuscle 2 provides users with the ability to zoom into an area on a 3D body and tap onto a particular muscle …
This week’s must have apps
Each week we shall be testing a small selection of Apps for use in Teaching and Learning and creating a list of must have apps for Education. This week we have chosen five apps, some that you may have seen before, that you could use within your teaching to …