The TechDis Toolbox is a collection of resources which give useful hints and tips on technologies that can help individuals work smarter, including social media.
It is aimed directly at the end users - learners. While written primarily for those with disabilities or difficulties, it is useful for just about anyone who wants to gain or improve on the skills most valued by employers. It explores many common workplace technologies and explains how to get the most out of them.
The contents of the Toolbox were determined via feedback from groups of former students who were asked "what should your tutor have told you but never did?" The development of the final resource has been shaped by TechDis learner ambassadors so it contains bite-size videos, short guides, animations and brief audio files.
Facebook page for Aberystwyth University Widening Participation.
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.
Niace Dysgu Cymru playlist on YouTube for Adult Learners Week 2013.
Example of a Facebook page for a Cert HE programme at University of Wales Trinity St David.
Examples from Scotland about using social media.
An infoKit to help post-16 education providers with e-responsibility and e-safety issues. "An increasing demand for cost-effective, responsive delivery, the use of personal devices, and teachers employing a range of online social tools to reach and engage learners means that managing and monitoring access to content has become central to teaching and learning delivery."
From Pixabay site 08.07.13: "Finding free images of high quality is a tedious task - due to copyright issues, attribution requirements, or simply the lack of quality. This inspired us to create Pixabay - a repository for stunning public domain images. You can freely use any image from this website in digital and printed format, for personal and commercial use, without attribution requirement to the original author."
The Technorati website says, "Technorati was founded to help bloggers succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the global online conversation. Founded as the first blog search engine, Technorati has expanded to a full service media company providing services to the blogs and social media sites and connecting them with advertisers who want to join the conversation, and whose online properties introduce blog content to millions of consumers." Technorati describes itself as "the leading blog search engine and directory".
"Delicious is an easy, free tool to save, organize, and remember the links you find interesting on the web."
Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
LinkedIn describes itself as "the world's largest professional network".
Reddit describes itself as "a type of online community where users vote on content". "Redditors" vote on which stories and discussions are important. the hottest stories rise to the top, while cooler stories sink.
Twitter describes itself as "a real-time information network that connects you to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and news about what you find interesting."
The best known example of a wiki, a collaboratively-authored website.
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List created to bring together resources and tools mentioned in a workshop by Jisc RSC Wales at University of South Wales (Lifelong Learning), Caerleon campus. The session was led by Esther Barrett and Lis Parcell. The list also includes some links to HE lifelong learning social media channels and...
Updated on Jul 15, 13
Created on Jul 03, 13
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