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
Tag Archives: Staff development
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
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
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
Teaching without speaking
Esther reflects on how she learned to teach without speaking and what that meant for her practice as a learning technologist. Read more
Making, choosing and using digital content.
Technology offers fantastic opportunities for staff and students to learn and teach by “actively making” rather than passively consuming. In this post Alistair McNaught explores the implications of making, choosing and using content. Typical questions “We have a virtual learning environment but it isn’t used well. Can you help us use it better?” “We are a small … Read more