Last week, we covered accessibility and audio for hearing and hearing impaired audience members. We distinguished between closed captions and subtitles and when transcripts should be used. This post can be viewed here: Hacking Accessibility: Audio. In our post on January 25th, Hacking Accessibility: Visual Information, we looked at ALT Read more…
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…
In our previous post, we looked at mindfulness tips to help with using digital tools, screen and digital fatigue. Over the next number of weeks, we will be revisiting accessibility and breaking it down per area: Text Visual information Video Audio Colour, and Design and Output Everything that will be Read more…
Many of us spend a lot of time working on computers as part of our jobs, studying and our everyday routines. It’s not just computer time, it’s screen time. Screen time also takes into account the use of tablets and mobile devices and televisions, not just computers. The fact that 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…
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…
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…
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…
We are now in November and last week we looked at Duolingo as a learning App and it’s benefits. This week, we turn our attention to TED Talks. What are TED Talks? TED talks began at a conference in 1984 for Technology, Entertainment and Design. These were initially short talks Read more…