Educational Podcasts

This 6-minute video provides a brief introduction to the educational use of podcasts, how to create them and the technology used.

New Brand PowerPoint template for teaching - how to use it

This short video show you how to download the template and use it with PowerPoint to create new presentations and apply it to existing presentations.

New Brand PowerPoint template - good practice advice

This short video introduces the new teaching templates and provides advice about good slide design

Using the Turning Point Showbar during zapper quizzes

This 7-minute video describes how Turning Point's Showbar can be used to manage questions during a presentation and includes useful techniques such as peer instruction and data slicing.

Using Turning Point to Analyse Data from a Zapper Session

This short video shows how you can save the date at the end of a Turning Point quiz, then view that data as an Excel spreadsheet.

Using the Turning Point Participant Monitor During Zapper Quizzes

This 4-minute video describes how to use the Turning Point Participant Monitor to review the performance of the whole group and individual students during a lecture.

PowerPoint Teaching Template - UoS blue flat.ppt

This PowerPoint file can be used as a template for teaching presentations. This version has a solid blue background and pale grey text on the title slide and all subsequent content slides.

PowerPoint Teaching Template - UoS blue & grey.ppt

This PowerPoint file can be used as a template for teaching presentations. This version has a blue fade background and pale grey text on the title slide and pale grey background and blue text on subsequent content slides.

PowerPoint Teaching Template - UoS blue fade.ppt

This PowerPoint file can be used as a template for teaching presentations. This version has a blue fade background and pale grey text on the title slide and all subsequent content slides.

PowerPoint Teaching Template - UoS light grey.ppt

This PowerPoint file can be used as a template for teaching presentations. This version has a pale grey background and dark blue text on the title slide and all subsequent content slides.

PowerPoint Teaching Template - UoS bluegreen fade.ppt

This PowerPoint file can be used as a template for teaching presentations. This version has a blue-green fade background and pale grey text on the title slide and all subsequent content slides.

New Brand PowerPoint templates for teaching

The templates plus a couple of videos showing how to use them

Getting Started with Blackboard and E-Learning

A PowerPoint used to start a discussion about the nature of e-learning, and showing how Blackboard can be used to support independent learning by students.

Changing text and background colours in Adobe Acrobat

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.

Re-using (rescheduling) an Adobe Connect meeting for a new date, time and participants

A two-minute video that shows you how to edit an existing meeting in Adobe Connect so you can re-use that meeting room for a new date, time and (if needed) different participants.