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…
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…
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…
This is the second post in the series of Teacher Toolkit for Engagement. Today we look at using summarizing as a task for use in-class or online. Our previous post looked at Passive Lectures and Engagement and as discussed, passive lectures do have their place. Passive lectures should be complemented 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…
Over the last few weeks, we have focused on using Zoom and MS Teams for live teaching sessions and how to set up meetings, groups and breakout rooms or channels. This has been to create spaces where synchronous teaching can occur in online spaces. They are available below if you Read more…