During this short session, you will learn how to increase the interactivity of your Zoom sessions through the use of whiteboards and polling.
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Data Literacy for Beginners
Data Literacy for Beginners is a one-hour webinar designed to introduce staff and students to the concepts first published in a popular statistics pamphlet, entitled How To Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff in 1954.
Read moreHow to create videos for online courses: An introduction
For this Digital Skills Festival session, we will introduce you to our latest offering “How to Create Videos for Online Courses” and empower you to create engaging videos to film on your own using tools you likely have to hand (i.e. a smartphone and/or tablet). You will hear from team members behind both short online courses and watch a demo on how you can turn your smartphone into a high-quality filming device for educational purposes.
Read moreDigital safety: Lessons from Netflix
As we’re all spending more time online in the new hybrid learning environment, it’s more important than ever to take ownership of your digital safety and use technology responsibly. This one-hour webinar introduces you to the concept of digital citizenship and takes you through steps you can take to keep yourself, and those around you, safe online.
Read moreOffice 365 Essentials: Simple cloud storage with OneDrive
This short course will introduce you to the basics of Microsoft OneDrive – a cloud storage solution offered to all staff and students as part of the University’s Office 365 subscription.
Read moreProducing LaTeX documents using the Overleaf online editor
LaTeX is much more than a word processing tool. In this workshop, we will explore the potential of using LaTeX and Overleaf in typesetting and producing professional-looking high-quality documents in teaching and research, such as reports, dissertations, papers, etc.
Read moreEnhancing student learning and employability with Jisc’s Discovery Tool
This session will introduce the current position of digital capabilities and fluency in Higher Education and society as a whole and pull in data from the sector-wide Digital Experience Insights survey.
Read moreBritish Sign Language in the Digital Space
In this British Sign Language and deaf awareness session, learn how to make digital events and resources more accessible and inclusive for BSL users and deaf individuals.
Read moreBlogging to Build your Professional Profile
This workshop will introduce you to the Academic Blogging Service and provide an overview of the benefits of professional blogging, writing for blogs, understanding privacy, copyright and open licensing, and how to amplify your blog with social media.
Read moreDiversifying the Curriculum with OER
In this one hour seminar, we will look at existing practices across the university adopting open education practices and resources to diversify the curriculum and encourage student co-creation and learning.
Read moreHuman-centred digital content
Join Ariadne Cass-Maran to learn about making your digital content human-centred including how to get to know your audience and their needs and write content that is inclusive, accessible and task-focused.
Read moreInformation Security: My neighbour hacked my toothbrush
This session considers the security implications of the Internet of Things (IoT) and provides top tips to consider when connecting devices in your home.
Read moreCracking the code for schools in Scotland: coding with Noteable in GLOW
This short talk will outline the progress over the past year to integrate the Noteable coding platform developed by EDINA, the centre for digital expertise and services within the Information Services Group, into Scottish schools.
Read moreAdobe Creative Cloud Express: Introduction
During this session, learn how to create rich multimedia content including social media posts, stories, and marketing materials with ease in only a matter of minutes with Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formally Adobe Spark).
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