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Submitting your Assessments as Screencasts
With the move to online teaching, it may be that you will need to submit screencasts for assessment rather than giving a live presentation, demonstration or walk-through. To help you, this video shows the basic features of Screencast-o-Matic, a simple screencasting tool that we recommend for making short videos, and how to submit the video through Blackboard.
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Coronavirus - student tips to manage symptoms
Coronavirus – student tips to manage symptoms
While people are busy panicking about the coronavirus, let’s discuss how to manage symptoms on a student budget
Controlling the urge to cough
When you have a dry cough, the urge to cough comes from irritation in the airways as you breathe in cool air. To stop this, the air needs to be warmed up (or humidified). The simplest way to do this is to wrap a piece of clothing loosely covering your nose…
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App of the week: Active 10
App of the week: Active 10
One You campaign promoting brisk walking
The One You campaign aims to highlight the health and wellbeing benefits of doing at least ten continuous minutes of brisk walking every day.
A daily brisk ten-minute walk can make you feel better in so many ways. It can boost your energy, clear your head and lift your mood. It also raises your heart rate and can go some way towards lowering your risk of…
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App of the week: Easy Meals
App of the week: Easy Meals
One You: Easy Meals
Easy Meals is a free app and a great way to eat foods that are healthier for you. You’ll find delicious, easy meal ideas to get you going if you’re ever short of inspiration. One You campaign is conducted by the NHS and aims to help you live more healthily and make the changes that matter. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to prepare or think of new meal ideas. Remembering…
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Political bots are driving the conversations across social media
Political bots are driving the conversations across social media
Nearly 50 million accounts on Twitter are actually automatically run by bot software. On Facebook, social bots—accounts run by automated software that mimic real users or work to communicate particular information streams—can be used to automate group pages and spread political advertisements. The term ‘fake news’ began with these political bots, yet now the definition seems to have lost its…
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Machine learning to track the coronavirus
Machine learning to track the coronavirus
Problems with tracking the Coronavirus
Coronaviruses are a family of hundreds of viruses that can cause fever, respiratory problems, and sometimes gastrointestinal symptoms too. The 2019 novel coronavirus, is one of seven members of this virus family known to infect humans. A pneumonia-like disease, the 2019 novel coronavirus has caused a global health emergency, sickened more than 31,000 people…
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App of the week - Forest
App of the week – Forest
Forest app allows you to maintain focus in a pleasant way. When you open the app, a tree is planted and if you leave the app then tree dies, if you keep the app open and maintain focus than tree grows. It reduces procrastination, distractions and enhances productivity.
You can collect different species of trees and build your own forest. Forest app team has also partnered with real-tree…
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Has technology cost us our humanity? A TED talk by Chris Dancy
Has technology cost us our humanity? A TED talk by Chris Dancy
I was in the middle of making a post about how we can automate mundane student tasks and how we can use technology to manage our mental health…… when I stumbled on this video by Chris Dancy. It made me question what I know about technology, and whether advising people to use technology to manage sensitive matters such as mental health was truly appropriate.
Chris Dancy purchased all of his…
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App of the week: Grammarly
App of the week:Â Grammarly
Grammarly is aimed at ‘anyone who writes and wants to improve his or her writing – students, bloggers, writers, and professionals’.
It’s more thorough than your typical checker, scanning for ‘more than 150 common and advanced grammar rules’. It also looks at punctuation and contextual spelling (such as confusion over to, too or two). It even checks for plagiarism and creates references if it…
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year - tech tips for the holidays
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year – tech tips for the holidays
With the festivities over the Christmas and New Year, it can become an overwhelming experience being a student if you have assignments or deadlines coming up but you also need a much needed break from university life. Here are our technology tips to help during the Christmas break.
Google Keep for making lists
Whether its a shopping list or things to take home/bring back to uni, Google Keepis a…
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Did you know? Free and discounted software for students at SHU
Did you know? Free and discounted software for students at SHU
Apps Anywhere has been helpful in accessing all kinds of software on university computers but did you know that you can get access to free and discounted software for your personal computer as a student?
Software for free include:
SPSS
NVivo
Windows 10
Microsoft Office 365
Autodesk (Maya, Fusion, 3D Max, etc)
Audio Notetaker
Discounts are available on:
Adobe Cloud (Photoshop, After Effects,…
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Virtual private network: what is VPN?
Virtual private network: what is VPN?
What is a virtual private network (VPN)?
A VPN is a secure connection between your computer and a server. Normally, when you connect to the internet, you first connect to your internet service provider (ISP), which then connects you to whatever websites you visit. When you use a VPN, you connect to a server run by your VPN provider, which directs your traffic instead.
Essentially, your VPN…
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Staying safe online
The internet is a great, modern tool but it is important to understand some of the basic rules and best practices to ensure your internet safety.
1. Keep your systems up to date.
The most popular operating systems (Apple, Microsoft and Linux) provide automatic security updates. As long as you have an internet connection, these systems should remain updated but sometimes when you notice your…
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Diceware - generate stronger passwords
Diceware – generate stronger passwords
If you’re having trouble coming up with that one strong password, consider using the Diceware method to generate a strong master password.
Diceware is used to generate cryptographically strong passphrases. Don’t let that frighten you away though, a passphrase is just a password made of words you can remember. It is based on the principle that truly random selection of words from a word-list, can…
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Password managers - Too many passwords to remember?
Password managers – Too many passwords to remember?
Passwords need to be different for every site you use
Most web browsers offer at least a rudimentary password manager. (This where your passwords are stored when Chrome or Firefox ask if you’d like to save a password.) While this is better than reusing the same password everywhere, browser-based password managers are limited.
The reason security experts recommend you use a dedicated password…
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Unsure of what you're clicking on? use VirusTotal
Unsure of what you’re clicking on? use VirusTotal
One of the easiest ways of getting a Trojan or virus on your computer is clicking unknown links and opening attachments from unsafe websites or click-bait emails. VirusTotal is a free web-based scanner that allows you to check files, websites or search their database for any links or attachments you’re not sure about.
How does VirusTotal work?
VirusTotal inspects items with over 70 antivirus…
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Did you know? you have access to LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) courses through SHU
Did you know? you have access to LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) courses through SHU
Advance your career with LinkedIn Learning (previously Lynda.com). Discover the most in-demand business, tech and creative skills with personalised recommendations and courses taught by industry experts. Whether you want to learn leadership skills, build a mobile app, or how to use software, LinkedIn Learning has something for you. Take marketing classes, get management training, learn graphic…
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