HLSS Coffee Club MMU

01/04/2015

Google Hangouts on Air

A video tutorial from Lynda.com explaining how you can broadcast your class or talk to a larger group of people via Google Hangouts. This is useful for distance learning courses or events held across multiple sites.

It has been used for MMU events that were held simultaneously at All Saints and Crewe.

http://www.lynda.com/Google-tutorials/Understanding-Google-Hangouts/192464/364855-4.html?org=mmu.ac.uk

Understanding Google+ Hangouts provides you with in-depth training on Marketing. Taught by Anson Alexander as part of the Google+ for Business

01/04/2015

Google Hangouts

Google Hangouts is free video-conferencing tool that allows you to communicate via live video with up to 10 people. It can be used for group work, research collaboration, but also if you wanted a guest speaker to talk directly to your class without actually being there.

Here is a short video from Lynda.com explaining how it works.

Using Google Hangout provides you with in-depth training on Education + Elearning. Taught by Aaron Quigley as part of the Google Apps for Students

01/04/2015

Evernote quick reference guide and Evernote add-ons

01/04/2015

Evernote video tutorials on Lynda.com

Up and running with Evernote for Windows:
http://www.lynda.com/Evernote-tutorials/Up-Running-Evernote-Windows/157838-2.html

Up and running with Evernote for Mac:
http://www.lynda.com/Evernote-tutorials/Up-Running-Evernote-Mac/157839-2.html

Harness the power of Evernote for Windows, a popular cloud note-taking and note-sharing tool that surpasses paper notepads in every way, shape, and form.

01/04/2015

Evernote

Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that can help students stay organised and manage study-related information, such as lecture notes, resources for assignments, portfolios, etc.

It has been successfully used at MMU with PLP students to help them manage study-related information, and in a faculty-wide unit at Hollings for group collaboration and e-portfolios.

Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, clip web pages and record voice reminders. It makes these notes completely searchable, lets you share them and, what’s best, you can access them across all your devices - PC, Mac, smartphone and tablet - whether you are at home, at university or on the go.

Here is an example of a note created in Evernote of how Evernote was used in a L4 unit in HLSS: http://tinyurl.com/magdaevernote

For more advice on how to use Evernote, please contact Magda.

How I used Evernote with L4 students Problem: L4 Essay (annotated bibliography) where students have to submit copies of their sources alongside their essay In the past: lots of paper copies that nobod...

01/04/2015

Explain Everything

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. For example..

- Talk over and annotate your slides during your lecture and share the recording with students afterwards
- Create an interactive screencast as a resource for your students
- Take photos on your mobile device and add annotations and voice over with instructions and explanations on the go
- Get students to create an interactive learning resource for their peers

Explain Everything can be downloaded for iOS and Android devices or Windows for £2.29.

This 4 minute video briefly demonstrates some of the features from the Explain Everything app. For more information please contact your E-Learning Support Officer.

01/04/2015

Video capture with Swivl

Do you ever want to video record a lecture or student presentation, but want to remove the hassle out of doing so? Swivl, your own personal cameraman, lets you record video on an iphone, ipad or DSLR camera and automatically follows its subject as he/she is wearing a tracker microphone. To book MMU's Swivl device from LRT, please contact Irfan.

Quick summary of how Swivl is used in education.

01/04/2015

Five Benefits of Podcasting:

1. Exam revision: Record lectures or short summaries to help students revise for an exam

2. Missed classes: Students who missed a lecture can catch up via a podcast

3. Focuses attention: Students can listen and think about what you are saying during the lecture, then revisit it as often as they like, make full notes or check anything they missed or did not follow first time round

4. Mobile learning: Students can download the podcast onto their mobile devices and listen to/watch them anywhere and anytime

5. Easy to do: A podcast can be just audio, audio and video (e.g. your voice over slides) or a screen cast (e.g. explaining how to use an online application or tool). With Moodle, BB Flashback and Kaltura it is dead easy to do!

Check out the videos below and the Moodle Staff Resource Area under 'Podcasting @ MMU'

26/03/2015

More about podcasting in this MMU video.

Detailed guides can be found in the Moodle Staff Resource Area under Podcasting @ MMU

5 ways in which to use MMU Video Resource, 1) video, 2) Video Presentation, 3) Video Assignment, 4) we**am 5) mmutube

26/03/2015

Find out more about podcasting in this MMU video

MMU Video Resource showcasing create, Upload and Deliver your podcast in Moodle and the use of mmutube and the 3 galleries - Public, MMU-Only, and MMU-Campus.

26/03/2015

25/03/2015

Another learning technology at - Explain Everything for annotating and recording presentations