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Tony Furnell

E-Learning Officer in the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen's University Belfast. Passionate about digital literacy, making life easier for users of technology by designing better systems, and incorporating equality, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) (including accessibility) into teaching and daily work.

Copyright – what you need to know

This is the first of a two-part blog post about copyright. It introduces how it affects your day-to-day work as a student, academic, researcher, clerical officer (in fact, really any occupation). Part One covers the basic concepts behind copyright. There’s a lot of info here, but we’ve split it up Read more…

By Tony Furnell, 4 years18th November 2019 ago
Available options for screen masking in Read & Write software.

TextHelp – Free accessibility and language tools

Digi Know? Queen’s has a campus-wide licence for students and staff to use Read & Write software from TextHelp. Read & Write provides a wide range of tools to assist with accessibility requirements such as sight difficulties or dyslexia, as well as support for users that are not fluent in Read more…

By Tony Furnell, 4 years21st October 2019 ago
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Recent posts:
  • PowerPoint and Creating Infographics
  • PowerPoint Presentations: Colour Vibration
  • Creating Posters in PowerPoint
  • PowerPoint: Designing Student Posters
  • PowerPoint: Design Tab and Custom Templates

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