• Distance Learning Forum Meeting Thursday 13 May 2021

    We hope this message finds you and yours all safe and well, going through or just finished the examination phase. We are still maintaining the DLF meetings to an hour as online fatigue certainly sets in. That said, if anyone wants to stay for a less formal chat after 3,…

  • Digital Education Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1

    3 May 2021 In this issue, you’ll get an idea of the work CTIL has been doing to get modules ready for the 21/21 academic year. There is also a staff spotlight where you can find out what the worst sound is according to Natalie Lafferty (head of CTIL). Finally,…

  • Upcoming Workshops – Infographics in an Educational Context

    Are you interested in creating educational infographics? Infographics can be used in a range of contexts within education from visualisation of complex data sets to communicating simple concepts in a visual way. LJ Logue of SSEN and Eve Laws of TILT, (School of Medicine) are running some introductory workshops in…

  • Digital Education Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 1

    April 2021 Learn what staff development work CTIL has been working on and find out what animal Professor Iain Gillespie dressed up as for a garden party before he joined us as Principal & Vice-Chancellor.  CTIL Updates CTIL have been busy this year working to maintain business as usual and in projects to…

  • Chrome’s inbuilt live captioning tool – with Collaborate (and everything else)

    Auto captioning in Chrome Google have made automatic captions available since last summer on selected Android phones. Google has also used Canary (the beta channel for Chrome) to test them for wider use. Right from the start, several people started to investigate whether or not it would work with Collaborate…

  • Distance learning forum meeting Tuesday 9th March 2021

    We are now midway through the second semester, January may have passed some time ago but it is never too late to wish you all a Happy New Year and we hope this message finds you and yours all safe and well. We are still maintaining the DLF meetings to…

  • Mentimeter Webinars

    We have been offered 2 Mentimeter webinars – an introductory one (Fem 23rd) and an advanced one (Feb 25th)