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Getting Access: Assistive Technologies

Following on from last week’s post on Queen’s University Disability Services, we want to share more information to assist staff and students with disability needs. This week we asked Tony Furnell to write this post about some of the Assistive Technologies available within Queen’s. Assistive Technologies There are many assistive Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years17th May 2021 ago
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A Student’s Best Friend: OneNote

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…

By Daria Casement, 2 years5th October 2020 ago
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Work and Study Online with O365

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…

By Daria Casement, 2 years28th September 2020 ago
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It’s the Final Countdown…

Over the last three weeks, we have looked at adding active-teaching tools to the Teacher Toolkit for Engagement. The link to last weeks post (Blogs, Wikis and Group Work) will link you through to all the activities you can use in your active teaching. It’s that time of year again Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years14th September 2020 ago
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OneNote for Education

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…

By Daria Casement, 3 years27th July 2020 ago
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Teaching at a Distance – MS Teams

What is MS Teams? MS Teams is Microsoft product available as part of Office 365. Teams as a digital service is available to QUB Staff and students. What is the benefit of MS teams? You can set up your own team for teaching, meetings, etc., and anything you share automatically Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years25th March 2020 ago
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Recording Lectures in PowerPoint

This method of lecture capture allows the recording of audio and slides together and then share this with students. It’s not a live broadcast and lectures can be used again. Before you begin Here you will be using PowerPoint to capture lecture content. To share the content, we’ll cover how Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years25th March 2020 ago
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