#686 Profile Pic Maker
Profile Pic Maker is a quick and easy way to make your profile picture stand out in the crowd or match with any brand colours.
Category: Digital identity management
The capacity to develop and project a positive digital identity or identities and to manage digital
reputation (personal or organisational) across a range of platforms; to build and maintain digital profiles;
to develop a personal style and values for digital participation; to collate and curate personal materials
across digital networks.
#529 Fancy VR? Don’t know where to start? Try AltSpaceVR
ALTSpaceVR is a great place to explore virtual reality – you don’t even need a headset (although it’s a better experience if you have one!). They have a whole host of events you can attend for free, and you can even use it to host your own private meetings! Check out this one minute introduction:… Continue reading #529 Fancy VR? Don’t know where to start? Try AltSpaceVR
#5MinuteReflection 6: Fed up with student emails? Tips for alternative communications.
A common complaint we hear from our academic colleagues, is how to manage a never-ending tide of student emails. In this #5MinuteReflection we cover some tips to help move students away from emails and onto more efficient communication methods. What are our students saying? Every year at Manchester Met, the TEL team conducts a thematic… Continue reading #5MinuteReflection 6: Fed up with student emails? Tips for alternative communications.
#477 Kahoot: New nickname generator
Kahoot is a classroom favourite where you can add fun interactive elements into your lessons (for more information on Kahoot see #14 In class quizzes? Get Kahoot!). Often one of the reasons cited by academics for not wanting to use Kahoot is that students have the freedom to choose their own nicknames. This isn’t an issue… Continue reading #477 Kahoot: New nickname generator
#449 Beautiful story telling with Shorthand Social
Shorthand Social is a free to use storytelling tool, which integrates into your Twitter account. You can create beautifully, visual stories using text, images and video. Each section is translated into a tweet to help promote your story, and the whole thing can be turned into a visual link to embed into a blog. Give… Continue reading #449 Beautiful story telling with Shorthand Social
#439 Export your Sway
Following on from our previous Sway posts (see Sway), in today’s video we look at exporting Sway to PDF or Word documents. This, in conjunction for being able to create templates, makes Sway an excellent option for people looking for a portfolio or online CV tool for students. One of the most common questions we… Continue reading #439 Export your Sway
#437 Template your Sway
Building on some of our earlier posts on Sway, Microsoft’s snazzy presentation tool, we are pleased to announce some very useful extra features. In this video we show how you can share a pre-populated Sway template with your students. If you work at Manchester Met, then you and your students all have access to Sway… Continue reading #437 Template your Sway
#413 Fast secure browsing with Opera
Need a host of features built into your browser to enhance your security and speed of browsing? Opera may be a good choice. It has inbuilt privacy, an ad-blocker, malware protection and the ability to enable private browsing and VPN browsing. Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash
#403 Want fast, private mobile browsing? Try Firefox Focus
Fast, private mobile browsing?? What’s not to love? Do you want to control what the website you visit collects about your browsing? Well now you can with Firefox Focus. Available on iOS and Android using Firefox focus allows you to block ads, location trackers and browsing trackers built into the websites you visit. You can… Continue reading #403 Want fast, private mobile browsing? Try Firefox Focus
#391 Medium [2/4]: Create your first story with Medium
Medium is an online publishing platform that is a hybrid of blogging and paid for content (for an introduction please see #380 Medium [1/4]: The Medium is the message). This short video will show you how to create your first story on Medium: Featured image: Photo by Picsea on Unsplash
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