Twitter is a powerful online social marketing tool that provides many services. The key features are communicating, staying connected and exchanging rapidly frequent messages. It allows its registered members to use texts, photos, blogging, broadcasting, videos, and hyperlinks. It provides the potential to communicate with a mass audience (Twitter n.d). Every day, billions of people use it… Continue reading Third Resource: Twitter

Book builder is a web-based tool that is available online (Book builder, n.d. online). The descriptive account is that it is an authoring tool that can be used to create a book online. This online book can have many features. Images and videos can be attached and they will be displayed on a YouTube screen. At the side,… Continue reading Second Resource: Book Builder

Authorpoint (Authorpoint. n.d.online) is a tool that allows sharing PowerPoint presentation to others without emailing it to the recipients (Authorpoint n.d. online).  The produced presentation is saved on a cloud and can be viewed online and offline. A link is used to access this tool and therefore it does not need to be sent as an attachment.… Continue reading First Resource: Authorpoint

Richard attended the Digifest conference hosted in Birmingham (Twitter, n.d online). He broadcasted his conference visit via the use of online software. The class was informed that he will provide a link which students can click to get connected (Richardnelson n.d. online). The link was available through Moodle, email and on Richard’s website. Also, Richard was available through… Continue reading Birmingham Presentation

Gamification is an umbrella term that referes to the use of elements that are designed for gaming in a non-gaming context (Dignan 2011, p.34). The principle feature of gamification is to bring about enjoyment, thereby increasing engagement. For it to be successful, certain rules need to be followed. Once the features and rules are included within… Continue reading Gamification

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The basic functionality of LinkedIn allows users to describe their work experience, education, and training. Therefore, they can present their profiles online. This description is why it is considered a platform to create an online CV (LinkedIn n.d). It has many features that are not possible in traditional paper CVs, such as being able to… Continue reading Social Media in Education

This blog discusses five website tools that can be used for educational purposes. Their features will be outlined along with possible uses. Likewise, a comparison will be carried out between them that will investigate their usefulness. Book builder is a software that is available online (Bookbuilder, n.d. online). The descriptive account is that it is… Continue reading Reflection on Five Digital Authoring Sources

For Linda’s class, an assessment was designed. The main aim was to identify the current knowledge level of students and how their learning could be improved. Firstly, it was decided that formative assessment is appropriate. The reason is that, as Paul (2016, p.225) argued, formative assessment is aimed for the purpose of improvement when a… Continue reading Reflection on Three Digital Assessment Resources

O’Reilly, (2016) claims that “Assessment’ is the term that is used to explain relevant aspects of evaluation and testing. (2016, p.45). The keywords that are used specifically for assessment are “evaluation”, “measure”, and “test”. Evaluation is related to functionality and measure is quantified and gives a number. The test refers to how much the student… Continue reading Assessment