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.
    
      
    
      
        
        
  
        
    
        The transition from further education to higher education can be a daunting experience for students. Being away from home for            
            
       
     
   
        
        
  
        
    
        At the beginning of each new academic year TEL receives many Moodle queries from staff – here are the top            
            
       
     
   
        
        
  
        
    
        FutureLearn – the first UK-led MOOC platform – is now in its fifth year of operation. It was launched in            
            
       
     
   
        
        
  
        
    
        Encouraged to enrol on a MOOC, and then write about my experience, I decided I had better first find out            
            
       
     
   
        
        
  
        
    
        After the stress of sitting A-level exams passes, and the last of the summer fades, the realisation dawns that you            
            
       
     
   
        
        
  
        
    
        Okay, so this post isn’t really about whether cats are cuter than dogs… rather, it’s about open source repositories, and            
            
       
     
   
        
        
  
        
    
        David Sherren Map Librarian - University Library, UoP Copyright guru - David maintains the Copyright Guidelines at the University and            
            
       
     
   
        
        
  
        
    
        Header image used under Creative Commons Licence. Taken by Jonas Smith from Flickr Podcasts are episodic audio files that can            
            
       
     
   
        
        
  
        
    
        Sarah Cooper Senior Online Course Developer - Faculty of Science, UoP The Safe Exam Browser (SEB) is a Windows programme developed            
            
       
     
   
        
        
  
        
    
        I’m somebody who gets distracted easily. Sometimes this can get in the way of what I need to do, but            
            
       
     
   
        
        
  
        
    
        Lynda.com is an online learning platform that offers thousands of e-learning courses (mostly video, but it includes downloadable materials, exercises            
            
       
     
   
        
        
  
        
    
        Is now the right time to question our role in education? In my previous role of ICT Co-Ordinator within local            
            
       
     
        
    
      
      
    
  
   
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