In our last week’s blog, we looked at Student Plus. This week, we turn our attention to Alumni Services (QOL, under Directorates and Development and Alumi Relations). This is quite a large area, so it will cover two weeks of our blog. Let’s get started! What is the QUB Alumni Read more…
We have looked at many of the available Microsoft Apps over the last number of weeks, and learned a bit more about these, where they could be used and some pros and cons. You will find a list of these here. Best practices in MS Stream Best practices to increase Read more…
Last week, we looked at best practices when using MS Stream. Today, we look at best practices in increasing engagement for MS Teams. Before we start into the Teams aspect, let’s take a look at engagement and what that could look like. What do we mean by engagement? One interpretation Read more…
Last week and the week before, we set Tony McGovern the task of exploring Twitter Spaces and Messenger Rooms (from Facebook). These are two competing social media platforms which allow users to create group chats. Tony did a great job here and continues to compare and contrast the two social Read more…
What are Messenger Rooms? This was the question we posed to our colleague Tony McGovern this week. Messenger Rooms are group-chat rooms. These are Facebook services but you don’t need a Facebook account to use them! These group chats can be video or audio and are multi-platform. You can use this service via Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Read more…
This week, we asked our colleague Tony McGovern to check out Twitter Spaces. Twitter Spaces are audio-based chat rooms which work from within your Twitter account. It’s a space where you can reach all your followers and non-followers to enhance networking. Spaces are currently in the Beta stages and previously only available on iOS/Apple platforms. The Beta 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…
The academic year is well underway now and over this last few weeks, we have been looking at Learning Apps to benefit University students. Initially, we looked at Duolingo, a free language learning App. And last week, we checked out TED Talks and how anyone can access these from YouTube 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…