Last week, we covered accessibility and audio for hearing and hearing impaired audience members. We distinguished between closed captions and subtitles and when transcripts should be used. This post can be viewed here: Hacking Accessibility: Audio. In our post on January 25th, Hacking Accessibility: Visual Information, we looked at ALT Read more…
In our previous post, we looked at mindfulness tips to help with using digital tools, screen and digital fatigue. Over the next number of weeks, we will be revisiting accessibility and breaking it down per area: Text Visual information Video Audio Colour, and Design and Output Everything that will be Read more…
Happy new year and welcome to 2021! We hope you had a joyful and restful Christmas break and now the university has restarted, you are hopefully refreshed (both as teachers and learners) and ready to get back into the swing of things: Teaching Studying Exams Feedback Between November and December Read more…
Good afternoon and we hope you’re having a lovely start to your week. DigiKnow has been covering different learning Apps lately. This has included: Duolingo TED Talks Anatomy 3D Atlas Flash Cards Office Lens, and Mind Mapping Padlet began life as an online tool but is now also available as Read more…
Over the last number of weeks, DigiKnow have been looking at Learning Apps such as: Duolingo TED Talks Anatomy 3D Atlas Flash Cards, and Office Lens The Learning App we chose this week covers Mind Mapping. In this blog post, we will cover what is mind mapping? Where mind mapping 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…
For most of the summer, DigiKnow has been looking at preparing teaching content for September and this has touched on how to: Record asynchronous content Recording online materials (PowerPoint) Mediasite Deliver synchronous teaching MS Teams & channels/breakout rooms Zoom & breakout rooms Setting up OneNote Use discussion forums Use of Read more…
The Digiknow blog post from last week looked at: OneNote in Education. OneNote Class Notebook is great for creating and disseminating content to students. A variety of media can be use in student learning. This week, DigiKnow will look at the role of discussion to help engage students. Initially, we Read more…
In the last two weeks, DigiKnow has provided you with information on some basic features of Photoshop: Basic Editing (automatic colour fixing, crop and straightening) along with Colour, Cleaning and Layers. Thus far, everything you do applies to the whole of the image or layer, rather than a part of Read more…
In last weeks post, DigiKnow covered some basic editing of images via Photoshop and provided some detail about popular file types, resolution and output. We hope you found this useful. In this weeks post, DigiKnow will look more at controlling colour corrections/enhancement, cleaning images and we’ll introduce you to the Read more…