Technology guides
The LTG has built a series of concise simple to use guides that introduce some of the new technologies and the ways in which they can be used to support tutorials, lectures, assessment, communication and other teaching and learning activities at Oxford.
- Audience response systems (instant 'who wants to be a millionaire' style display of voting from learners in a classroom)
- Behaviour Composer (easily create, run, and analyse computer models and simulations)
- Blogs (provide a record of thoughts and ideas for reflective writing or project diaries)
- Discussion boards (online discussion for groups)
- Facebook (connect with colleagues and students via 'social networks')
- Flickr (upload, organise and share photographs online)
- Interactive whiteboard (transform your use of chalkboards and whiteboards)
- Mailing lists (automatically distribute emails to students)
- Phoebe (plan learning sessions and explore new pedagogical approaches and tools)
- PowerPoint (create thoughtful presentations for viewing or printing)
- Social bookmarking (access, categorize and share bookmarks online)
- Survey monkey (create and run online surveys, analyse and export results in various formats)
- Turnitin (detect copying and plagiarism in student work online)
- WebLearn Surveys and Polls (get feedback from students, collect opinions)
- Wikipedia (search for information in an online encyclopedia)
- Wikis (collaboratively author multi-version documents)
- Word: 'Comment' feature (easily annotate documents 'in line' for feedback and review)