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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Flying high: social media and international student advisors
Our International Student Advisors have purchased iPads to help them keep up to date with their work and deliver presentations to prospective students whilst working abroad. Having never owned an iPad before these colleagues had requested a session to discuss the different presentation apps that are available.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Hairdressing resources
JISC, The University of Manchester and _Mimas have come together to create a fantastic resource website for trainee hairdressers and their tutors. Hairdressing Training is the name of the website which contains ‘step-by-step guidance videos, self-evaluation tests, worksheets and guides relating to an expanding collection of hairdressing styles and techniques’ the service’.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Embedding employability in the FE curriculum with about.me
Last week I was speaking to an FE colleague about the different ways that TEL can be used to embed employability skills into textile courses. As part of the discussion we were talking about blogs which got me thinking about the about.me…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Am I in? Using Twitter to increase student employability
This month Dragons Den star Hilary Devey is trying to help young people find work through the VideofyMe app and Twitter. The idea is that job hunters will use the app to create a short video CV which will then be tweeted using the hashtag #employme.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Image if all the people in all the world shared what they knew
Over the past few months I have been lucky enough to meet an inspirational bunch of people who not only enthuse passion but are also exited about sharing their knowledge in order to help others grow. I really feel like I made the right decision in becoming a learning technologist and have found my ‘tribe’ so thank you to everyone who has helped to make this happen.…
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Yesterday at #rscinspire13 Chris Barber introduced his audience to the AudioNote app for iPads and iPhones which I immediately downloaded and am really excited about using. The software seems to be exactly what I’ve been missing – an application that can cope with audio and visual note talking whilst cross referencing both at the same time.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...JISC Y/H Summer Conference 2012 #rscinspire13
Today wasn’t like a normal Wednesday, I didn’t get up at 6, I didn’t eat breakfast in the car and I didn’t drive to Derby. Instead I had a lie in, caught the train to Leeds and almost had a heart attack as I undertook the nerve raking task of delivering my first conference presentation.
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CREATIVE, EDUCATIONAL, TECHNICAL.
Last week I started my first position as a Learning Technology Advisor. Although I’d specialised in Information Learning Technology at my previous place of work this role is completely different and I have lots of exciting things to look forward to once I get over the ‘argh, I don’t know how to do anything stage’ that I’m currently experiencing.
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...How to secure a new job in education
This week I delivered a careers talk to a group of PGCE students who are about to cross the finishing line and grab their first post as a qualified teacher. As it’s job hunting season, plus i’m about to start a new position in learning technology, I thought a post on how I’ve used the internet to job hunt might be useful.…
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