Introduction

Welcome to this short training resource. It is designed to introduce colleagues from the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures to the tools that are available for you to use in the development of your online and blended learning in 2020/2021.

(Although this is specifically designed for colleagues in SALC, there are tools in here which might also be of use to those elsewhere in the University. We hope you find this useful, but if in doubt, always check with the Faculty of Humanities eLearning web page or the eLearning page for your Faculty for further details and resources.)

The aim of this resource is to provide a brief introduction to the tools you might use. You can listen to the video and read the ILOs below to understand further what you will gain. However, we want to begin by emphasising that whatever tools you use should be pedagogy-led. We, therefore, strongly recommend that you first watch Prof. Rebecca Bennett's excellent short course "Creating Online Resources for Blended Learning" which will introduce some key concepts and provide important information on ILOs, active learning, interactivity and accessibility.

If, at any time, you want to find any of the resources discussed in this training resource, re-read SALC's Online and Blended Learning Key Principles, or find out about how to contact SALC's eLearning Lead, Hannah Cobb, or the SALC eLearning technologist team, you can click on the link below to access SALC's online and blended learning website.

You can also consult the Faculty eLearning website for resources, support and training - links to this Faculty guidance and training are also included throughout this course.

And you can also access the eLearning team's daily drop-ins, which run 9-4 every week day, or get learning design or other support from them.

At the end of the course you will be able to:

• Identify the wide range of tools available for delivering remote teaching;
• Have a working understanding of the tools available;
• Understand how the application of these tools can be used to meet SALC's remote teaching principles;
• Understand the pedagogy behind these tools;
• Recall case studies in which they are used;
• Locate further training in these techniques.

(Two useful resources for developing your Intended Learning Outcomes are the University of Manchester's Useful Phrases for Intended Learning Outcomes and the University of Manchester tool for creating ILOs)

In theory, this resource is designed to take an hour of your time. In practice, it can be used as an asynchronous guide that you can move back and forth through at your own pace, returning to any section that you find useful. It is divided into 6 parts which are as follows:

Part 1: Using your Blackboard Playground: Introducing your playground as a place to experiment with other tools covered in the rest of the course.

Part 2: Tools for asynchronous interaction: Voicethread, discussion boards, quizzes, wikis, polling, word clouds.

Part 3: Tools for recording asynchronous lecture content: including how to record lectures in PowerPoint or Zoom, tips for uploading recorded presentations, and how to embed them in Blackboard.

Part 4: Virtual Field Trips: Suggestions and resources for how these can be delivered.

Part 5: Virtual Laboratories: Information about how laboratories can be provided virtually.

Part 6: Conclusion and Adobe Spark: In this final section of the course we provide some final guidance, including introducing one last tool - Adobe Spark. Spark is the tool used to produce these pages and is explained more in part 6. We also provide links to resources for support and further guidance.