Diigo, E-learning, HEA, Higher Education Academy, Social bookmarking, social media, Spanish, web2.0 | Leave a Comment on T&L project launched

T&L project launched

Earlier in September, I took a (long) trip down to Brighton for a meeting at the University of Sussex about a collaborative project called T&L (tagging and learning): Developing digital literacy through social bookmarking between Sussex, Hertfordshire and Lincoln on the use of social bookmarking in Humanities teaching. The project team, Carolyn Pegg, from Hertfordshire,Continue reading T&L project launched

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Presenting at 15th Teaching History in HE conference

Last week, I gave a couple of presentations at the Higher Education Academy’s Teaching History in Higher Education conference in Senate House in the University of London. Unfortunately, I was only able to attend the first day of the conference, but managed to see some very interesting presentations. Highlights for me included those by TimContinue reading Presenting at 15th Teaching History in HE conference

Collaboration, digital literacy, E-learning, feed reader, Feedly, RSS, Student research, web2.0 | Leave a Comment on Curate history (and your other interests…) on the web – part 2

Curate history (and your other interests…) on the web – part 2

In an earlier post I talked about Scoop.it, a site for bringing together content from different websites (blogs, YouTube, regular webpages, RSS feeds) and ‘curating’ it. Over the past few days I’ve been playing around with a similar service called Feedly. Feedly is described as a ‘magazine style news reader’ – it allows you toContinue reading Curate history (and your other interests…) on the web – part 2

Biosciences, digital literacy, Dissemination, E-learning, employability, history, JISC, Languages, Learning objects, Making Digital History, Psychology, Spanish, Teacher Education, Xerte | Leave a Comment on Launching Making Digital History @ York

Launching Making Digital History @ York

Last Wednesday I attended the first meeting of the 9 projects that make up the Digital Literacies in the Disciplines strand of Higher Education Academy funding. All of the project leaders were unable to attend but there was some fruitful discussion as we outlined our various projects and the challenges and opportunities that we envisaged.Continue reading Launching Making Digital History @ York

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Scoop.it! – curate history on the web

Scoop.it! is a platform that allows you to collect websites, especially social media websites, in one place and save/ share them. It also helps you to find relevant information and is easily searchable.I’ve had a bit of a play with it and it looks great – easy to use, share and embed in a blog,Continue reading Scoop.it! – curate history on the web