How to make images accessible on Twitter and why its important
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by Sue Beckingham
1y ago
Twitter icon: Twitter tip You can add a description, sometimes called alt-text, to your photos so they’re accessible to even more people, including people who are blind or have low vision. Good descriptions are concise, but present what’s in your photos accurately enough to understand their context. For anyone using a screen reader this will read the Tweet text and the alternative text you provided for your image. The same concept applies to adding images to other social media, blog posts and websites. On your phone when you add an image you will see a paint brush icon. Click this and it takes ..read more
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LinkedIn tips for students looking for placements or graduate job vacancies
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by Sue Beckingham
2y ago
It should not come as a big surprise that employers and recruiters will look at your LinkedIn profile. They are just as keen to fill open posts as you are securing a job. One way they can do this is by using LinkedIn to search for keywords that relate to the job(s) they have open. If this brings up your profile, then they could choose to contact you if they felt your profile matched what they were looking for. A second way is when they have received your application, CV and cover letter, they search for your profile using your name. Taking a look at your LinkedIn profile can provide them with ..read more
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Twitter feed getting a little congested? Muting tweets may be the solution to resolve this!
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by Sue Beckingham
2y ago
There may be times when you see content coming up in your feed that you are just not interested in and given the choice you’d prefer not to see! It could be that your timeline is suddenly full of tweets because there is a football cup final going on, it’s Eurovision time or because a new Wordle game gets popular and people like to share their daily results. We all have different interests and that’s fine, but it doesn’t mean you have to see these tweets! If this is happening to you then muting could be the answer!  You can choose to mute Tweets that contain specific words, phrases or has ..read more
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Social learning: bite size practice webinars and a new national repository for teaching resources
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by Sue Beckingham
2y ago
Pedagogy and Pancakes Website: https://chrisheadleand.com/pedagogy-and-pancakes/ Twitter: @pedPancakes Pedagogy and Pancakes is a practice-sharing seminar series created by Dr Chris Headeland.  His idea is that you get your breakfast, sit down, relax, and enjoy some lightning talks run by colleagues. In each talk, the speakers will share their teaching and learning experience and provide some concrete examples that you could adopt or adapt for your own practice. To date the series runs every two weeks with three speakers sharing their practice. Chris uses Microsoft Teams and a form for ..read more
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Happy 15th Birthday Twitter
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by Sue Beckingham
2y ago
On March 21 2006, Jack Dorsey published his first tweet. just setting up my twttr — jack (@jack) March 21, 2006 It was another three years and a month before I took the step to set up my own Twitter account and then tweet. This is my first tweet. Learning to twitter in my lunch break — Sue Beckingham (@suebecks) April 24, 2009 How to Find Your First Tweet Visit your Twitter profile to find the date you joined Twitter. Use Twitter’s advanced search to add your Twitter account @username (Account – from these accounts) and a date range to find your first tweets (Join date + a few months ..read more
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Celebrating a milestone: The 200th #LTHEchat
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by Sue Beckingham
2y ago
LTHEchat – A short acrostic poem by Sue Beckingham On the 17th March 2021 the weekly Learning and Teaching in Higher Education tweetchat reached a special milestone – the 200th #LTHEchat. For anyone who is not familiar with the chat, this is an hour long Q&A focussed on a topic relating to learning and teaching introduced by a guest. The conversation is stimulated by 6 or so questions to prompt thoughts and reflections, and an opportunity to share ideas and practice relating to the topic. The focus of the 200th chat was to provide an opportunity for the community to reflect on the tweetcha ..read more
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Collaborative interactive project management tools: a visual way to identify and progress tasks
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by Sue Beckingham
2y ago
To do lists (Pixabay)Project management In order for a group project to succeed you need to be organised. It’s important to know what stages make up the workflow that will ensure you complete the project, and who is responsible for what. One approach which has been used by many over the years is KanBan boards. Typically a white board or wall space is used along with some coloured tape to divide the space into columns (progress) and rows or ‘swim lanes’ to seperate individual or teams sharing the same board. Post-its were then used to write individual tasks. These could be moved along as the ta ..read more
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Festive CPD: Using Twitter to engage in bite sized learning activities
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by Sue Beckingham
2y ago
It has been a long challenging year for all of us and I for one am looking forward to the holidays to spend time with family and friends. What better way to countdown than this selection of bite sized activities created by colleagues to share tips about learning and teaching. Trent Institute of Learning and Teaching Using an advent calendar template, each a new door reveals information and tips on ways to help you on your HEA Fellowship journey. Kate Cuthbert and Laura Stinson are reknowned for sharing excellent resources and this festive calendar is no expection!   Follow @NtuTilt ..read more
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Easy listening – A collection of higher education podcasts
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by Sue Beckingham
3y ago
What is a podcast A podcast is an audio programme that can be listened to on your computer, smartphone and other mobile devices. Podcast is a portmanteau, a combination of ‘iPod’ and ‘broadcast’. POD is also described as ‘portable on demand’ (Wikipedia). Typically a podcast features one or more hosts who engage in a discussion with each other or guests on their show. How to listen to a podcast You can listen to a podcast via your computer via the site they have been created on. To ensure you get reminded about new episodes you can subscribe to podcasts on your computer using Feedly or iT ..read more
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The inaugural issue of the Journal of Social Media for Learning
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by Sue Beckingham
3y ago
JSML cover The first edition of the Journal of Social Media for Learning – Conference Special Edition has now been published. The #SocMedHE19 conference took place at Edge Hill University in December 2019 led by Dawne Bell and Sarah Wright. Presenters were invited to contribute papers to the inaugural edition of this new journal. The Chief Editor is Dawne Bell and she has done a terrific job bringing this together. Submissions were accepted in all formats (papers, posters, presentations, opinion pieces, technical reports), including reflection pieces outlining changes in individual’s practice ..read more
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