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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Turnitin Support

   Hopefully the collated links below will bring help (and thus good cheer) to a few of you over the winter break…

4. Book in review: Using Simulations for Education, Training and Research (Dieckmann (ed))

   Simulation-based educators should read this book, particularly those who are involved in designing programmes of training or who are responsible for designing the simulator environment and purchasing equipment.

5. Sharing practice – green screen module evaluations

   This blog post highlights how working closely with the TEL team, creativity and new technology can be combined.

6. Sharing Practice – eBooks

   This blog post highlights the use of eBooks.

7. New Year News

   This week we have a number of institutional TEL updates (some of which are biggies) that we would like to pass on.

8. Sharing practice – Using the video discussion board to create a community and more…

   Dr Colum Cronin has written an article about the ways in which TEL has influenced the delivery of the course.

9. Tools for Peer Review and Peer Evaluation available in Canvas

   A post exploring Buddycheck and Canvas Peer Review and how they can be used for implementing peer feedback on your courses

10. Anatomy of a tweet – Introduction to twitter part 1

    This week’s post is about twitter, not about how to use it, when to use it, or even whether to use it. Instead this post hopes to demystify the anatomy of a tweet.