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Open Badges is an online system for creating and linking awards and achievements to BU students and BU staff. Examples of badges include awards for working as a PAL leader, being a SUBU rep, attendance at events or workshops, participating in conferences, blogging, contributing to BU, achieving a new skill etc. Badges and their criteria… Read more » about Open Badges
Some staff who have completed this online questionnaire have commented that they found it useful to confirm how much they did know and also to identify pedagogic areas and TEL Tools which they had heard of but realised they did not know well. This acted as a prompt to use the TEL Toolkit to learn… Read more » about What did you learn from the digital skills self-assessment questionnaire?
Over the next 5 months, CEL is piloting a project in which BU students help BU staff to develop their digital skills, knowledge and confidence. Our pilot follows similar projects at other HEIs that have been both welcomed by staff and successful in helping staff. This help and support can be provided on a one-to-one… Read more » about Developing your digital skills with the help of students
We all have strengths and weaknesses when it comes to digital skills. To help you understand where you are, we have developed a BU-specific questionnaire that will take you about 15 minutes to complete. We do ask for your Faculty and Department but you can complete the questionnaire anonymously if your prefer. CEL is trying… Read more » about What are your digital strengths?
V4L and CEL will be running a TEL Toolkit-based competition shortly with an Easter theme entitled ‘How do you use yours?’ Look out soon for details!
Many staff will have received the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Toolkit pouch in the post in the last week. In addition to the TEL Toolkit where you can learn of the many pedagogic ways of using TEL in your teaching and learning, the pouch also contained information on the digital skills self-assessment. We are asking… Read more » about 3 super-convincing reasons to complete the digital skills self-assessment
Panopto is mainly known as a Lecture Capture system, but it has many features that make it useful for a range of Technology Enhanced Learning activities. Here are just a few of the possibilities. 1 – Linking Fieldwork to Learning and Teaching Videos can be created on mobile devices and uploaded directly to units… Read more » about 5 Different Things to Do With Panopto
Many academic staff will have received or be about to receive their TEL technology pouches in the internal post with week. The pouch acts as a reminder of the TEL Toolkit which has been developed by BU staff for BU staff. If you have not already done so, please peruse the TEL Toolkit and see… Read more » about TEL technology pouches
Bring your TEL or learning and teaching issues and we will try to help you. Please book a place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cel-seminar-challenge-cel-in-bournemouth-house-tickets-21403120309
Augmented reality (AR) is a way of animating the world using a smartphone or iPad that works by linking content such as videos, hyperlinks or documents to images viewed through the device. In AR, the real-world is supplemented or augmented by sound, video, graphics or map-based information. For example, someone could point a smartphone at… Read more » about Are you familiar with augmented reality?
