Five minutes with… Claire Storr

We asked Claire Storr: what is your job role? Learning Technology Consultant supporting Placements. What 3 words describe you? Friendly, helpful and adaptable. Tell us something ‘unusual’ about yourself When I studied abroad in Virginia, I attended an Barack Obama rally at the University. What excites you about learning technology? Probably the different opportunities available. …

Advent Calendar #23: Take a break and complete the Learning Technology Crossword

With Christmas very much on the horizon – just a couple of days to go! – we offer you an opportunity to grab a brew, maybe a mince pie too, and take a little break. Behind the door of today’s advent calendar, we have another H5P activity – a little puzzle in the form of …

Advent calendar #9: Christmas Mix and Match – Memory Games in Moodle

WARNING – This blog post contains Christmas puns and jingle bells. Oh deer! This year, the Moodle upgrade gifted us with H5P. H5P offers a range of different activities you can add to your Moodle page to engage students. One of them is a Memory Game. To snow off what you can do with the …

Advent Calendar #1: A festive use for H5P

In our most recent Moodle upgrade we installed H5P. This is an alternative to Xerte Toolkits for creating small interactive items within the Moodle page. You can create, edit and re-use interactive content (e.g. multiple choice quizzes or virtual tours). These can be added as graded activities on your Moodle module or non-graded embedded elements …