Online meetings – from Yawn to Yay
Esther Barrett shares her favourite tools and techniques for making your meeting interactive, engaging and accessible for your colleagues Read more
Webinars – from Yawn to Yay
Esther Barrett shares her favourite tools and techniques for making your webinar interactive, engaging and accessible for your audience. Read more
Bins and recycling – digital skills are essential
Esther talks to Jamie and Vinnie who are loaders for RCT Waste Services. Digital Skills are becoming more important in their jobs as they collect more data on their rounds. Read more
Reflections on digital transformation
Chris reflects on some of the lessons learned from the digital leadeship programme about digital transformation in education. Read more
Observations on using Microsoft Teams as a backchannel
Does Microsoft Teams work as an effective backchannel? Read more to find out Scott’s reflections on using it at a recent workshop. Read more
Digital Diamonds
Esther Barrett tells us about a new community of practice for Essential Skills Wales Digital Literacy practitioners and managers in Wales. Read more
Crafted Teaching, Splendid Learning
Esther reflects on the nature of teaching as a craft and why we must thread digital skills through the objects and activities that we create. Read more
Writing for the Digital World
Scott shares news of a new Jisc training course designed to help those whose role is to publish to the web. Read more
Is Teams a VLE killer? That’s the wrong question
Many of Jisc’s member institutions are looking at the potential of of MS Teams to be a core system in the support of learning and teaching. Here Chris takes a look at the fundamental difference between Teams and the traditional VLE to ask whether one could be a direct replacement for the other. Read more
3D scanning for immersive content
Scott discusses Jisc’s new 3D scanning service and what it involves for members at the recent Introduction to 3D scanning and photogrammetry for immersive content creators event at our Fetter Lane office in London. Read more