Over the last number of weeks, DigiKnow has covered accessibility of various elements which you will use in digital content creation. This includes: Text Visual Information Video Audio Colour alternatives Now we turn our attention to how we bring it all together when we design something for our audiences. Design Read more…
Last week, we looked at accessible text. This week, we want to bring your attention to accessibility and visual content and this will cover visual images used to convey information. No matter what the visual content, there’s at least two things you need to consider. Alternative text Contrast, colour and 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 Mind Mapping, and Padlet To move on a little, DigiKnow wants to look at how information 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…
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…