Welcome to Tel Tales, the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team’s blog site!

Click on our blog posts below to view what the team have been up to, where we’ve been and what inspires us in learning and teaching. We are always looking for keen bloggers to contribute to our site, if you are a University of Portsmouth member of staff and interested in writing a post for Tel Tales then please get in touch with your ideas.

Expert - Achieving Mastery - How Important is Practice in Learning?
Learning a new skill can often feel daunting, especially if it’s one that doesn’t particularly spark interest or enthusiasm –
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On 25 June I attended an Adobe/Times Higher forum called “Making digital literacy a pillar of education”, along with representatives
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TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) will be offering bespoke training sessions over the summer period, timetabled TEL training sessions will resume
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A recent visit to Oxford University for a conference on the use of video in Higher Education provided an excellent
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Wikipedia is in the crosshairs for many academics – but is it worthy of a student's time? There is a
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Two years ago the University implemented Lynda.com, an online library containing over 14,000 courses on business, technical and creative skills.
All New Grackle accessibility extension for Google Docs & Slides
I was chatting to an academic the other day. We were talking about the new tool in Moodle for automatically
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Introduction In eLearn, we have just reached the end of the exam period with our faculties intact (excuse the pun)
Did you know? - creating new modules 2019-20
As one academic year comes to an end, it’s time to start planning ahead. Do you have approval for any
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Introduction As an online course developer I recently had the task of creating an accessible online version of a print-based
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This blog post links, indirectly, to my previous post on gamification. While gamification can help promote learning and engagement in
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In September 2018 the University established a working group in order to better understand what the future of content capture

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