Easter eggs!
April 5, 2023
Traditionally, Easter eggs in the digital sense used to be hidden in the software that we used every day. From video games to operating systems, software developers have been known to add secret features, messages, and hidden references for users to discover. For example at one point there was a Flight Simulator game hidden in …
Creating audio and podcasts
April 3, 2023
I got some really good tips on creating audio and podcasts in education, from the recent Future Teacher webinar focusing on audio. Speakers included Andrew McLaren. Edinburgh Napier, Sheila MacNeill, Jane Secker, and Mark Childs. Here are, with thanks, some of their tips. The preparation time needed (at least at first) means it can be …
Roadworks on the learning journey: advice for students
March 31, 2023
As anyone who drives onto University Park campus from the North knows, earlier this year we had to navigate some serious roadworks on the A52, the main road across the north side of the University campus. These roadworks were extensively signalled in advance, and were due to gasworks. The closure of the road in a …
National Accessibility Conference: Call for Expressions of Interest
March 29, 2023
The University of Nottingham is planning on hosting a conference in the summer on the broad theme of digital accessibility. We’d like to create an opportunity for those of us involved in this area to come together to share experiences. We are working through our own digital accessibility programme at the moment, and we know …
The Blended and Hybrid Learning Design MOOC is now live on FutureLearn
March 22, 2023
COVID-19 has had a transformative impact on higher education. Blended and hybrid models of learning are now the norm, and not an anomaly. On this five-week course from the University of Nottingham, you’ll explore a range of perspectives on blended and hybrid learning. You’ll examine key paradigm shifts in pedagogical thinking, and consider their implications …
Writing questions for quizzes in Moodle and ExamSys
March 20, 2023
In our recent “iTeach: Engaging Students” webinars [Link to Moodle: sorry UoN only], we discussed in the final webinar the difficulty of writing questions, such as multiple choice questions, for quizzes and tests. If questions aren’t properly written, it’s possible to score well just by knowing how the questions work. It’s amazing how many online …
Take a NAP 8: Accessibility checkers
March 16, 2023
The final core habit of the eight we’re calling Nottingham Accessibility Practices — the NAPs – covers accessibility checkers. These can be an important tool in identifying issues or catching errors in your documents. Much like spell-checkers, accessibility checkers can be found in most text editors and are easy to use. Within Microsoft Office you …
Take a NAP 7: Formats and assistive technologies
March 14, 2023
The Nottingham Accessibility Practices – the NAPs – are eight core habits that will help make your teaching materials and publications more accessible. In this seventh post in our series on the NAPs we’re looking at how materials can be formatted to be used with assistive technology tools. Those who will benefit most from accessibility …
Take a NAP 6: Colour
March 9, 2023
Colour is one of the most important features to be aware of when creating accessible content. In this post, part of our series on the eight Nottingham Accessibility Practices – the NAPs – we’ll look at why colour can be an issue and how to design to overcome that. To make your content easy for …
Take a NAP 5: Tables
March 7, 2023
The Nottingham Accessibility Practices — the NAPs — are eight core habits that will help make your teaching materials and publications more accessible. We’ve covered format, text, images and multimedia so far, and in this post we focus on tables. Tables are a great way to organise, summarise and compare large amounts of information. However, relying …
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