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.

Bird in flight creating a shape of an arrow
Along with colleagues from about 30 different UK universities I attended the Remaking Marking: Electronic Management of Assessment conference held
In recent student surveys it’s become clear that students want more consistency to the layout of their Moodle modules. Students
industrial building work
What is scenario based learning? Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, in their influential book Situated Learning (Lave and Wenger, 1991)
ally
On 15 January 2019, following a two-month pilot, the TEL team switched on the Blackboard Ally plug-in across all modules
Blurry Colours
I've been doing a lot of thinking about accessibility and Moodle recently as we move the Moodle Baseline project into
One query which we often receive from students here in TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning), is concern that one or more
Group of people sitting around a table working on different computer devices
I gave a talk on 14 November at the launch of JISC’s new Community of Practice in Digital Experience Insights.
Firstly, please don’t be alarmed – the elearn email address is not disappearing! We would just like to encourage everyone
A man with virtual reality goggles on looking at his hands
Staff use Moodle to upload learning resources, post and mark assignments, and set quizzes. Students use Moodle to access learning
Open book storyboard
The use of animation in user interface (UI) design, and the effect it has on the user experience (UX), is
Moodle Front Page
Each year, over the summer, the University upgrades Moodle to ensure staff and students have access to all the new
Westfalian Museum of Industry
This is the final blog post about about an Erasmus+ Staff Training experience to the FernUniversität in Hagen which took

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