We are looking forward to seeing you at the 27th June staff development day! The Learning Technology team will be camped out in the sports hall for the day and will be on hand to provide details about who we are, what we do and how we can …
Need a buddy? Want to know more? Not sure who can help? Find it all too confusing? Why not sign up to our buddy system? This buddy system enables members of teaching and support staff to ‘buddy up’ with one of the experienced eLearning team to identify areas of personal development in …
It has been brought to our attention that playing videos from YouTube in PowerPoint is no longer working. This problem is due to a recent update with Microsoft PowerPoint and we are currently looking for a solution If you do wish to play the video directly in PowerPoint, please come …
There is a keyboard short cut that allows you to move around windows on your screen much easier than trying to resize and drag them to different positions. By holding down the windows key (bottom left of the keyboard) and using the keyboard arrows, you can ‘snap’ the window to …
Important information about Youtube We have received a few emails over the past few days regarding embedding Youtube videos into Powerpoint presentations. There has been a few issues with the embed codes and Youtube videos are not playing- despite appearing, usually as a black box, within the Powerpoint slide. To clear this …
The below video shows you an quick easy way to attach your files to your emails. [youtube_sc url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5vBDR3ocYA&feature=BFa&list=PLCFC7B1C66DAD2050″]
When you are browsing the internet, rather than having multiple windows open which can be confusing you can use ‘tabs’ instead. Tabs run along the top of your browser (eg Internet Explorer/Firefox) and enable you to see what you have open and it gives you the ability to flick between …
There is a really simple way to attach files. If you have a file saved on your in a folder or on your desktop, you can easy attach it to an email in Outlook by simply clicking and dragging it into the email. Watch the video which shows you how: …
When creating or adding anything to one of your LearnZone pages, you will see the question mark icon. When you click this icon, a pop up window will appear and give you some information on this setting. The below video highlights how it works: [youtube_sc url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tURx8ilz3wM&feature=BFa&list=PLCFC7B1C66DAD2050″]
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 …
