In our previous blog post, we looked at the humble PDF. This can be the result from many software applications and is intended to be viewed / displayed or printed without amendment. Perfect for teaching and student annotation. This week, we turn our attention to PowerPoint to discuss its usage, Read more…
In our last blog post, we looked at Office 365 and OneNote and provided a demo of some of the OneNote features users might find useful, this included adding sections / pages and some accessibility features. The week before, DigiKnow created a how-to video and demonstrated how staff/students could work Read more…
As it’s a new academic year, DigiKnow wants to concentrate on students’ digital needs. Last week, we did a demo of using O365’s OneDrive and some Apps to assist staff and students working and studying online. This week, we turn our attention to OneNote and introduce this to students. OneNote Read more…
It’s now the second week of teaching at Queen’s University. Most live-teaching is done remotely via MS Teams (other online meeting software are available). Many lecturers and students are engaging in new digital spaces for the first time. The biggest question for students using digital spaces for remote and/or online Read more…
It’s now the first week of term. Student inductions are getting underway and teaching starts this week as well. It may be students are taught face-to-face in some scenarios and today’s blog post looks at engaging students in live-teaching in MS Teams. On Friday, we looked at MS Teams and Read more…
It’s the Friday before the first week of term! Student inductions will be underway from Monday and teaching starts as well. It may be students are taught face-to-face in some scenarios and online in other scenarios. This blog post covers how students access MS Teams and what they need to Read more…
It’s Wednesday 16th September! It is the week before student induction and teaching at Queen’s University. If you are a Programme Coordinator, student inductions should already be planned and scheduled for delivery. In this blog post, we have collated a number of resources that can be used for student induction Read more…
Over the last three weeks, we have looked at adding active-teaching tools to the Teacher Toolkit for Engagement. The link to last weeks post (Blogs, Wikis and Group Work) will link you through to all the activities you can use in your active teaching. It’s that time of year again Read more…
Welcome to the final blog post in the series for the Teachers Toolkit for Engagement. Until now, we have covered eight other activities to engage students in active-learning. These will assist teachers with active-teaching. These include: Engagement Summarizing Content recall Using index cards Problem-based learning Role play Student presentations Think-pair-share Read more…
On Monday, we looked at student presentations as an activity to engage learners. Today, the activity we want to cover is Think-Pair-Share. Let’s look at: What think-pair-share is How it can be used in teaching Some variations to think-pair-share The benefits And how this can be used online as an Read more…