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1. The Inaugural Faculty TEL Forum – Exploring Virtual Reality

   We would like to announce the first in a series of Faculty TEL (technology enhanced learning) forum meetings starting Tuesday 23rd May 2017.

2. Curriculum Enhancement Bid Support

   If you think technology might be able to support an existing curriculum enhancement idea you’ve been considering or you just want some curriculum enhancement inspiration, why not speak to your local TEL and technical colleagues.

3. Student Access and Publishing Canvas Courses

   We’ve had many queries this week in relation to student access to Canvas courses.

4. Visible Bodies Links and Guidance for Staff and Students

   Good news - Visible Bodies Anatomy and Physiology is now accessible to staff and students both onsite and off.

5. Improve Classroom Participation and More by Using Response Sites and Portable Devices

   This week therefore, I want to highlight how a group of mostly free websites can turn students’ own devices into powerful and versatile audience response systems.

6. 12 Ways to use Mobile Response Sites with Student (and Faculty) Devices in the Classroom

   The approaches below are collated from the literature and also from the views of colleagues within the faculty who have used student devices as audience response systems.

7. Sharing Practice – PowerPoint narration for reflection, content creation and assessment

   This academic year the audio narration feature in PowerPoint has been used by a number of staff and programme teams for a variety of tasks.

8. TOON! Non-technical Skills (NOTECS) Cartoon

   Enjoy our monthly cartoon section, this months ‘toon’ comes from our Team Resource Management series by our resident cartoonist Smurphmuff.

9. Sharing Practice - Faculty Distance Learning Course Examples

   Following the Faculty TEL survey we have collated a handful of good practice examples of courses and approaches designed/redesigned to support distance learning via active blended learning. Read more...

10. Sharing Practice – Supporting Student Collaborative Activities with Shared Documents in Office 365

    Faculty colleague Andrew Kennedy has kindly offered to share his experiences of using shared documents on Office 365 both to support student group assessments and also to facilitate active and engaging shared writing and proof reading activities.