The capacity to find, evaluate, manage, curate, organise and share digital information, including open
content. At higher levels a critical awareness of provenance and credibility. Capacity to interpret
information for academic and professional/vocational purposes. Ability to apply the rules of copyright
and open alternatives e.g. creative commons. Ability to reference appropriately in different contexts.
Ability to record and preserve information for future access and use.
I am often a waffler. I can overly complicate my writing which occasionally can make the meaning somewhat blurry and indistinct….See what I mean! Often for students we need to make our communication clear and direct. So they know what is expected of them. Often we should make assessment instructions as clear as possible. Fortunately… Continue reading #659 Readability: Is my text audience appropriate?
Most of us use Google every day as part of our web searches and research. Many of us have only scratched the surface of the search engine’s capability. Here we will look at possibly the first in a series of Google search tips/hacks to make your searching more efficient and refined. There are many useful… Continue reading #652 Google search tips
I remember back to doing dissertations and digitising tables was a long hand task of manually creating them using Excel and extracting data from books or journals and typing it in. Now with the Excel mobile app you scan a printed table or a screen table and the app scans and digitises the data directly… Continue reading #646 Digitise printed tables in Excel (or from screens)
Easily create a task from a post in Teams. Watch this 1 minute video to show you how… Image: Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash
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
Hypothesis is a digital annotation tool that allows anyone to add, view, and respond to comments on pretty much any public webpage. It is a great tool and is available for free. To get started you need to sign up for a free account and add Hypothes.is to your browser. Once you’ve done that you… Continue reading #621 Hypothes.is [1/2]: Make reading active, visible, and social
I am a big fan of Trello. I use it to organise my projects using ‘boards’ and ‘cards’. One useful power-up that you can add to your boards is Calendar. This creates a new perspective to your board by taking the due dates for your cards and displaying them in a Calendar format so you… Continue reading #593 Trello: Calendar view
Acrobat offers an inbuilt PDF checker and adjustment tools that enable you to review and correct some accessibility issues that may arise in PDF documents. As you may need to update existing guides or web based PDFs Acrobat can allow you to adjust these without having to resort to re making the document in their… Continue reading #575 PDF Accessibility checking and adjusting in Acrobat
If you’ve used a service like WeTransfer before, you will be pleased to know that Dropbox now offers a similar service to send files you don’t need to collaborate on. The benefits of this service compared to sharing a file on Dropbox includes: You can see how many times file has been viewed / downloaded… Continue reading #556 Dropbox Transfer
Another method of reducing the amount of scrolling in Moodle on an area is to use the OneTopic format. This places tabs at the top of the page which represents topics or weeks. Instead of showing everything at once, it’s broken down in to topics. There’s less scrolling for your users. Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from… Continue reading #538 OneTopic format in Moodle
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