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
Category Archives: Good practice
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
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
Looking after yourself – digitally.
In response to Jisc’s revised definition of digital wellbeing Scott explores what this means to him. Examples from across the sector are included as well as useful links to Jisc’s developing work in this area. Read more
360 video – niche novelty or an immersive utopia?
Scott shares his observations creating a 360 degree video using a Samsung Gear 360 camera. The post highlights some of the key considerations you need to take into account when making your own videos and includes 360 degree footage of a twelfth century abbey. Read more
Digital capability: arrival or evolution?
Chris and colleague Shri Footring presented a workshop at December’s AoC Create comference in London about staff digital skills and adapting to constant change. Here Chris outlines how thinking about “conscious competence” can give a window on the activities leaders can encourage to support this in their organisation. Read more
Curriculum Confidence comes to Belfast!
Scott provides an overview of the latest run of the Curriculum Confidence workshop in Belfast. This one day workshop explores how to build confidence when designing and delivering a digital curriculum that will prepare students to learn successfully in digital settings, and thrive in a digital world. Read more
Storytelling in the round – experiments in 360 video
Recently, Chris was presenting a workshop on what 360 video can bring to digital storytelling at a conference in Greece. Here he explains his reasons for exploring the technology and some of teh conclusions he came to including how to address some of the technical and artistic challenges. Read more