Assessment · Digital communication · Digital creation · Digital research and scholarship

#669 Use Canva to create impactful infographics in a flash

Need to create an inforgaphic or a research poster and not sure where to start? Canva has a selection of free to use templates that you can edit and customise with your own data, to create great looking designs quickly and easily. There’s lots of things you can do with Canva, and the below gives… Continue reading #669 Use Canva to create impactful infographics in a flash

Curation · Data literacy · Digital research and scholarship · forms

#661 All your MS Forms in a muddle? Here’s how to get them organised!

If you use MS Forms a lot, you might find it useful to explore the Collections feature, which works like a folder for your forms. It’s really easy to get set up, just don’t forget you need to be in the “All my forms” area to see your collections. Take a look at this short… Continue reading #661 All your MS Forms in a muddle? Here’s how to get them organised!

Classroom technology · Digital collaboration · Digital research and scholarship

#651 Fancy doing a live cross tab analysis with your polls? Menti can help with that!

Mentimeter has a great feature which enables you to generate live, cross-tabular style analysis as your students respond to your polls. This provides you with a really interesting way to explore potential relationships and patterns within how your students respond to questions, in live time!  This can be used a way of sparking further discussion,… Continue reading #651 Fancy doing a live cross tab analysis with your polls? Menti can help with that!

Digital research and scholarship · Google Chrome · Media literacy · Top tip

#643 Reading list in Google Chrome

Google Chrome have added a new useful feature as an alternative to bookmarking. If like me, you bookmark web pages that you would like to read at a later date, you can now add them to a dedicated ‘Reading list’ instead of them getting lost in your bookmarks. Then you can see what is read… Continue reading #643 Reading list in Google Chrome

Audience response system · Classroom technology · Curation · Digital communication · Digital participation · Digital research and scholarship · Distance Learning · iPad

#633 Get organised with Well Sorted [3/3]: View the results

This is the third in the Well Sorted series. In this video, we will look at step 4, which is viewing the results… You can also view this Well Sorted playlist on YouTube for more detail on each step. Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

Audience response system · Classroom technology · Curation · Digital communication · Digital participation · Digital research and scholarship · Distance Learning · iPad

#630 Get organised with Well Sorted [2/3]: Sorting ideas into themes

This is the second in the Well Sorted series. In this video, we will look at step 3, which is sorting ideas into themes… You can also view this Well Sorted playlist on YouTube for more detail on each step. Photo by Camille San Vicente on Unsplash

Communication / Collaboration · Digital collaboration · Digital innovation · Digital research and scholarship · Formative assessment · Google Chrome · Information literacy · Working with Data

#625 Hypothes.is [2/2]: Annotating PDFs in your browser

As we saw in #621 Hypothes.is [1/2]: Make reading active, visible, and social, Hypothes.is is a powerful digital tool for annotating webpages and especially social annotation as a group. As well as annotating web pages, you can also annotate PDFs as a group. Watch this video to show you how: For more ideas on how… Continue reading #625 Hypothes.is [2/2]: Annotating PDFs in your browser

Audience response system · Classroom technology · Curation · Digital communication · Digital participation · Digital research and scholarship · Distance Learning · iPad

#623 Get organised with Well Sorted [1/3]: Set up and add sorting options

Well Sorted is a free web-based tool to help you organise ideas into themes. The website suggests that the tool can be used to help set meeting agendas by letting attendees suggest ideas for discussion beforehand and then allowing the attendees to group the ideas into themes. It could also be used in teaching and… Continue reading #623 Get organised with Well Sorted [1/3]: Set up and add sorting options