Recently at the hairdressers I had some time to kill. With my Android phone in hand I set about exploring some of the new updates to Microsoft apps available on mobile. Read on if you would like some quick and easy options for increasing your productivity while on the move. Technology is supposed to make …
Adding gaming elements to adult education is as valuable for adults as for younger learners.
For the first time since the beginning of 2020, Bett (British Educational Training and Technology Show) returned to the ExCeL Arena in London to reunite the global education community in person. The show ran from the 23rd -25th March and I was lucky to be one of the 30,000 plus people to walk through the …
In a previous post, we shared the beginning of one Further Education and Training setting’s journey to implementing virtual reality (VR) into their teaching and learning programmes. (If you haven’t already, read the background story here on how the journey began and why we chose ClassVR). The previous post posed many questions, but ended with these: …
Going out with an Archaeologist undergrad in college, meant date night sometimes kicked off with a lecture in UCD Archaeology Dept. The excavations of the Danevirke (an earthen wall to keep the Vikings out of northern Germany) might not kick off St. Valentine’s night for many but dear reader, I have that t-shirt. A quiz …
What is virtual reality? Virtual Reality (VR) creates the illusion that a person is somewhere else. Through a computer-generated world, a person can feel fully immersed and able to move and interact in that world (Milgram, & Kishino, 1994). What benefits does VR offer teaching and learning? Virtual reality has been around for years. In …
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Over the years so many students have had an impact on my approach to learning and teaching. When I hear the phrase ‘student voice’, there is one particular past student who pops into my head. A couple of times a year I get a surprise email to let me know about the great things she …
In the past few weeks, Microsoft officially launched Microsoft Viva and made some substantial changes to Microsoft Educator Centre. Microsoft Viva is a product aimed at employee engagement within MS Teams. It consists of a number of parts but one element of interest to educators is the Viva Learning section.The Learning section in Viva combines …
We have all witnessed over the past 20 months the huge increase in the number of tools, apps, and platforms available to support learning and teaching in the classroom, whether virtual or in the return to the face-to-of face environment. Some of us were aware of these tools beforehand, but perhaps didn’t really see or …
A new self-reflection online tool to support teachers to further develop their digital competence was launched on October 5th, World Teachers’ Day. SELFIEforTEACHERS has been designed by the European Commission working with experts from across Europe. The tool gives primary and secondary teachers an opportunity to reflect on how they are using digital tools and …
