There are many different ways to communicate on-line now days from chat rooms, forums to e-mail, instant messaging, blogs and personal spaces. Some have clearly stated rules and some depend on unwritten codes of behaviour. Here are a few general tips provided that will hopefully make those occasions where learning and teaching are taking place more worthwhile.
This content is taken from a Master's-level module, Internet Technologies, taught at the UCL Department of Information Studies. It is about web accessibility and usability; accessible design is important to ensure webpages can be used by a wide variety of people.
This presentation was given at #LearnHack 5.0 Open Education on 5 and 6 November 2018 and discusses accessibility issues in relation to the creation of and distribution of OER.
This Collection for tutors contains quick guides and web links to Blackboard Collaborate (classic version) on-line resources. The collection also includes guides on Elluminate Publish Video Conversion Software.
This short (4 sides of A4) document provides advice to tutors about essential and recomended practices, organisational principles, blended learning, accessibility and copyright.
A 4-minute video that shows how students with dyslexia or visual stress can change the text and background colours in Adobe Acrobat Reader to suit their needs.
This guide is aimed at those who use Firefox as their preferred web browser and describes how you can customise the way you see web pages by changing the fonts and colours.
This presentation is taken from a Master's level module, 'Legal and social aspects of electronic publishing', taught at the Department of Information Studies, University College London. The header page for this collection of resources is at: http://ucloer.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/23.
This is a step-by-step guide on how to get a transcript from a YouTube video. Note that transcripts are only available for videos that have closed captions
Covers HTML5 design principals and key changes. Outlined are new and retired elements, changes to forms and media support. This lecture then also covers key changes to CSS3 and JavaScript which support the development and implementation of HTML5
The TechDis Accessibility Essentials Guide for Reading has been divided into the following three sections: Font colours and styles; Enlarging text and Navigating documents. These guides have been designed to give practical step-by-step information to enable anyone reading electronic material to amend its look and feel into a style which suits them, their audience or the context in which it is used.
A collection of teaching materials taken from a Masters level module at University College London with a focus on the digital humanities and the legal and social aspects of electronic publishing. The header page with list of contents and links is at: http://ucloer.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/24.
The materials here were originally constructed as part of a project titled 'OER Digital Humanities (DHOER)' at University College London, funded under the UK Open Educational Resources, phase II, Ai: release strand (06/10) in 2011 by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Jisc.
The 'Legal and social aspects of electronic publishing - full.7z' zipped folder contains all of the collection items in open document formats.
This zipped folder contains all of the 'Legal and social aspects of electronic publishing' collection items. This is a collection of teaching materials taken from a Master's level module at University College London with a focus on the digital humanities and the legal and social aspects of electronic publishing. The header page with list of contents and links is at: http://ucloer.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/24 and the full collection can be viewed at http://ucloer.eprints-hosting.org/23/.
The materials here were originally constructed as part of a project titled 'OER Digital Humanities (DHOER)' at University College London, funded under the UK Open Educational Resources, phase II, Ai: release strand (06/10) in 2011 by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Jisc.
When creating a document it can be difficult to know from the outset what the final layout and structure of a document should be. Using headings and styles, users can create a document and structure it appropriately at the end using the outline function.
Video transcript, an alternative method of accessing the content of the following video recording: Blackboard Ally - Preview and Highlights update 2019 - YouTube link:https://youtu.be/U-Xi96NmGYQ
Video transcript, an alternative method of accessing the content of the following video recording: Blackboard Full Grade Centre – Working Offline - YouTube
Video transcript, an alternative method of accessing the content of the following video recording: Technology Supported Learning - Lecture Capture (Student Observation) - YouTube link: https://youtu.be/D6lmibFiur8
Video transcript, an alternative method of accessing the content of the following video recording: Using Panopto to produce "How to" resources - MS Word - YouTube.
Windows offers several high contrast colour schemes which may be useful for users with vision impairments or specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia.
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