SALT’s Top Ten Tools

Every year Jane Hart (http://janehart.com ), founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, compiles the Top 100 Tools for Learning. The 2014 Annual Learning Tools Survey comprised votes from 1038 learning professionals across 61 countries. (2015 survey closes on 18th September 2015 http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/voting/). So to kick off our…

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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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Live stream for September IT Events

Remember that if you can’t attend the Make one Change Events for September ‘Making IT Resources Work for Your Students’, you can always watch the live stream which will be posted daily here on the blog and on our Twitter feed #susaltit #susaltlive. You can participate from your desk by using the Twitter feed #susaltlive to ask…

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Twelve Technology Tools for Teaching

Tue 8 September SALT’s Top 10 online applications – we will send a list of our personal favourites, generated from Jane Hart’s 2014 the Top 100 Tools for Learning. The following tools are those that will help you get organised for your lectures as painlessly as possible, providing the best opportunities…

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Plans for September 2015

September is the month that we look at Making IT Resources Work for Your Students. So here at SALT we are planning sessions to help you get ready for the new term. We will be creating resources, sharing ideas and hosting hands on session that you can dip in to so…

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SALT Student Intern

MA Modern History Student and SALT Student Intern Isabel Costello talks about her time at Swansea Academy of Learning & Teaching . As I am approaching the end of my contract at SALT Chris Hall (aka the boss man) has asked me to write a blog about my time in…

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Self Teaching Students

Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard, and Vice-President of the Optical Society, talks about who he changed his lectures from trying to transfer knowledge to getting the students to teach each other.

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Open? Educational?

OER (Open Educational Resources) 2015 took place at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama on 14th and 15th April in a very sunny Cardiff. https://oer15.oerconf.org/ The question of the conference was “What does it take to move OER into to the mainstream?” Introductory Video After the usual interminable…

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