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Hacking Accessibility: Video

It’s Monday again and seemingly, Monday’s come around very quickly. Really, it’s been no time at all since last weeks blog post on Visual Information and the previous weeks post on Text. We do hope you are finding these hints and tips helpful in your practices as this week we Read more…

By Daria Casement, 1 year1st February 2021 ago
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Learning Apps: Padlet

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…

By Daria Casement, 2 years7th December 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Intro to Problem Based Learning

Last week, DigiKnow started into a series of blog posts to help build up a Teachers Toolkit for Engagement. We have been posting more frequently than normal for this series and we do hope you are enjoying it thus far. On Monday, we looked at Using Index Cards in teaching, Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years2nd September 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Content Recall Activities

This is the third post in the series of Teacher Toolkit for Engagement. Today we look at using content recall activities as a task for use in-class or online. Our previous posts, we looked at Passive Lectures and Engagement and Summarizing. As previously mentioned, passive lectures have their place and Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years28th August 2020 ago
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Teams ‘Breakout Rooms’ (Channels)

DigiKnow looked at the Breakout rooms feature in Zoom last week, and how these could be used. This week, we continue with the equivalent of breakout rooms in MS Teams: better known as Channels. What are channels? Channels are where staff/students can meet away from the main Team to complete Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years20th July 2020 ago
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Breakout Rooms (Zoom)

In our last blog-post, DigiKnow looked at Zoom for Live-Teaching. Zoom is a very powerful tool for online conferencing, webinars and teaching. As this was such a large subject, we decided to look at Zoom breakout rooms this week. We covered how to: Set up a meeting Hosting a meeting Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years13th July 2020 ago
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