New Year’s Resolutions

The New Year is a time for making promises (some of which last longer than others) to yourself about improvements you can make to your life. Here at SALT we decided to share our Make One Change New Year’s resolutions, in the hopes that some of them may be useful…

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Online Grading with Turnitin’s Grademark

In today’s session with Simon, participants explored the online marking tool GradeMark® which is provided by Turnitin, and can be accessed through Blackboard.  You can try GradeMark® with the online demo so that you can get a feel of how it works. As an instructor, you will be able to…

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Shiny websites and sparkly apps

Ran a session for SALT on IT resources today, I’m not an expert but I am a bit of magpie when it comes to shiny websites and sparkly apps so it’s always nice to share what has worked for me. It’s always lovely to come to SALT sessions and a…

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What’s on this week?

This week’s SaltIT sessions begin tomorrow with Patricia Xavier as she shows how to turn mobile phones from distraction to attraction in your lectures. The session is to be based on the Salt conference session Using student devices to enhance engagement. If you would like to attend, you will need…

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To Click or not to Click?

…that is the question. Today’s session led us to the Bay campus, where we were fortunate enough to be the first group to use the new PC labs. Unfortunately it did mean that we were unable to provide live streaming as the AV equipment wasn’t fully operational. There’s always a…

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Collaboration with Google Drive

Most of us are quite familiar with Google as a search engine, and have probably even used the proper noun, Google, as a verb, if you don’t know it ‘google it’! However, Google offers an equally impressive set of tools that allow the user to “create, share, and edit” documents.…

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Do you need more SALT in your diet?

Book a Session Here On Tuesday 8/9 our September events kick off as we share our top ten most often used tools. Sometimes we don’t have time to mess about learning new software and even wonder what half the tools do on the software that we do use. If that rings a…

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