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.

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What is Slack? Today we're looking at Slack — a messaging app that aims to reduce the amount of email
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What is Duolingo? Duolingo is a free language-learning app that works on iOS, Android and Windows mobile devices as well
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What is Lynda.com Lynda.com is a website designed to help you gain new skills in a variety of different subjects.
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What is H5P? Today we’re looking at something new for this year, H5P. H5P is a content creation app available
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One query which we often receive from students here in TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning), is that they are concerned that
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What is NUS Extra? Today's app is NUS Extra, a free lifestyle app to accompany the student discount card, which
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What is Smiling Mind? Today's app is Smiling Mind, a free mindfulness app for iOS, Android and the web, created
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What is Evernote? Today we're looking at Evernote, a popular note-taking app available on iOS, Android & the web. The
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What is WhatsUp? Today we’re looking at an app for students, and one that’s important for all staff to know
Johny Cassidy Producer at BBC Business News Johny’s Bio - Guest-blogger Johny Cassidy is a producer at BBC Business News
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What is WiseDrinking? Today's app is WiseDrinking, a free health and fitness app which encourages responsible drinking. Available in 37
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The University of Portsmouth uses the Turnitin service to provide facilities for plagiarism detection, online marking and as a development

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