Category: Resources

Audio Feedback

No title Originally uploaded by Dan’s Photos Students are continually reporting dissatisfaction in the feedback they receive during their studies. Common complaints including timing, clarity and usefulness. An area being rediscovered by academics is the use of audio feedback. Audio feedback can be broadly defined as the use of digital media to record messages to […]

Edison: Making your PC Greener

As you plan your summer holidays I’m sure at the back of your mind is the environmental impact of hopping on a plane for some well deserved rest and relaxation. Intense media coverage has made us all aware of the impact travel, and flights in particular, has had on the environment. Whilst the aviation industry […]

Ultra Mobile, Ultra Cheap – Student Netbooks

Three bears – Toshiba, Asus and Lenovo Originally uploaded by m.hawksey On of the current buzz words in computing is ‘netbooks’. Netbooks are water downed laptops usually with less processing power and features of their bigger brothers but with the advantage of being more portable and importantly cheaper. These key features potentially make netbooks ideal […]

Online Resource for Hospitality Students

Tired of telling your students the correct way of setting a table, spacing chairs or folding napkins? Bright Settings™, a table linen wholesaler, has some nice interactive guides which might be useful to students (this is an American site so you might want to check these resources first): Setting the Table Chair and Table Seating […]

WallWisher – Free Online Noticeboard

WallWisher is a free online noticeboard service designed to allow easy communication via virtual sticky notes. It’s easy for users can create boards (no registration required) which then can be shared for others to add and edit.  As well as ‘traditional’ text notes users can embed images and even web pages and videos. Noticeboards can […]

Visible Body – Human Anatomy Online in 3D

The Visible Body, presented by Argosy Publishing, features a complete, searchable, online and fully interactive 3D human anatomy model, and detailed models of all body systems. Detailed, anatomically accurate, three-dimensional models of more than 1,700 anatomical structures are available, including all major organs and body systems. The models were developed by experienced medical illustrators and […]

EduApps – Portable applications in your pocket

Back in September 2008 we launched AccessApps, an initiative developed by the Scottish JISC Regional Support Centres in cooperation with JISC TechDis. This consisted of over 50 open source and freeware assistive technology applications which can be entirely used from a USB stick on a Windows computer as known as portable software. The huge advantage […]

BBC Launches Virtual College of Journalism

According to the BBC’s dot.life blog the BBC is going to open its virtual College of  Journalism to the public. Thousands of pages of skills advice, video and guides to almost every aspect of journalism – from interview techniques to in-the-field reporting and even sports commentary – will be made available. … Every aspect of […]

Enhancement Themes!!!

I often look over at my colleague Kevin Brace’s blog with great envy when he pulls together posts full of great resources. I think I might have trumped this time with outputs from the Enhancement Themes. For those of you unaware the Enhancement Themes are planned and directed through the Scottish Higher Education Enhancement Committee […]

Microsoft Freebies

Getting the most out of your Microsoft campus deal? BlogMS, which picks the best from over 200 official Microsoft team blogs, has complied a long list of free Microsoft software and online services. For the techies there are some links to ‘powertoys‘ you might not have known about (I went for an ALT-TAB replacement which […]

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