How-to guidance
These articles give you practical guidance on using various learning technologies. If you’ve used any of these tools, feel free to leave a comment about how you employed them and whether you found them useful.
| Date | Title | Category | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2010 | Linking to your Podcast from your Webpage This post shows how to link to your RSS file so your users can find your podcast. It will show you how to use the ITPC link so your users can subscribe directly in iTunes. |
How-to guidance | DELU33, iptc, iTunes, podcast, podcasts |
| 20 July 2010 | Writing an RSS feed for iTunes In this post we will cover how to go about writing your own XML to create an RSS feed for iTunes. The format used will be legible by most RSS aggregators but I will assume that you may intend, as some stage, to submit your feed to the iTunes Store which requires certain extra tags. |
How-to guidance | iTunes, podcast, rss, xml |
| 13 July 2010 | Using the Flip Camera to make online videos in Blackboard Want to create a vodcast for your students but don’t know where to begin? Use this guide to help you, or visit the E-Learning Unit and use our Flip Camera to record your video and make it available to your students. |
How-to guidance | podcasts, training, video |
| 19 May 2010 | Q-Review and podcasting your lectures at Queen Mary This is a brief reminder about the College’s lecture capture project, Q-Review. If staff would like to make use of this service in the coming year, you are advised to make that requirement known to Room Bookings when submitting your room requests now. They will make every effort to prioritize requests from those who wish [...] |
How-to guidance News and Events | |
| 2 March 2010 | Accessing Alt-J (E-Learning Journal) As part of our membership of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), we have access to the Journal ALT-J, about research in learning technology. |
How-to guidance News and Events | research |
| 24 February 2010 | Terms and Conditions with Selective Release In the past, people have asked how to set things up on Blackboard so that students have to accept some terms and conditions before they can access a particular piece of content. This can be done with a combination of an Assessment (i.e. a quiz) and the Selective Release functionality. This article describes what this solution looks like and goes through the steps required to achieve it. The steps should take no longer than about 15 minutes to carry out and in doing so you will learn about both the Grade Book and the Selective Release functions in Blackboard. |
How-to guidance | blackboard, grade_book, selective_release |
| 20 January 2010 | Visualisers and Q-Review Many of you will have noticed Visualisers appearing in more and more lecture theatres around campus. They’re, in my opinion at least, a fantastic technolgy. They are extremely simple to use and have the potential to open up a whole new array of materials to a lecturer. They’re also very much under-utilized. (As a brief [...] |
How-to guidance | classroom technology, Echo360, q-review, visualiser |
| 10 January 2010 | How to use microphones for Q-Review Probably the biggest hurdle we’ve encountered so far in the Q-Review lecture capture project is the disappointment of a really good lecture being delivered that gets played back in absolute slience. This short post outlines the steps that a presenter must go through to ensure that the audio for their lecture is recorded. |
How-to guidance | audio, Echo360, lecturecapture, microphone, q-review |
| 22 September 2009 | Getting your Blackboard course ready – Part 1 As we are approaching the beginning of a new academic year, many of you may be in the process of preparing your course areas on Blackboard before the start of teaching. This article is the first of two detailing the key tasks that you will need to undertake to ensure that everything runs smoothly. |
How-to guidance | blackboard, vle |
| 24 July 2009 | Archiving Coursework from CE6 If your students have been busy submitting their assignments online throughout the year, you will have a large number of submissions that you’ll need to keep for a number of years to come. During the academic year, it is useful to keep these within CE6 for both tutors and students to access. Once the year comes to an end and the course isn’t active, it is no longer possible, or desirable to keep assignments on the VLE as an archive. This post explains why you can’t leave old assignments in CE6 and how to get them out. |
How-to guidance | assignment, screen capture, vle |