Alt + 0160
This is not so much of a shortcut, but as I use a password manager the normal Word shortcut of Ctrl + Shift + Space is attached to another function bringing up a password manager box instead, so using holding Continue Reading
Tag: digital literacy
A simple and portable accessibility tool that works!
I hate reading on a monitor. Years ago, when I doing my MSc I bought a kindle keyboard. But this now 12 years and 2 batteries later, it does not work very well. I cannot send converted PDFs to it Continue Reading
DigComp 3.0: A Comprehensive Framework with Practical Challenges for UK Digital Education
The European Digital Competence Framework, now in its fifth incarnation as DigComp 3.0, represents one of the most comprehensive efforts to define what it means to be digitally competent in the 21st century. Developed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Continue Reading
Are students digitally prepared for university?
When I did my BSc (Hons) I did a module on Information Tecnology and Quantitative Biology, which involved sitting in a huge computer lab for 4 hours every Wednesday morning to use different general and biology specific software. Then later Continue Reading
A conversation about digital wellbeing
I rarely come across much discussion over digital wellbeing. For many of us, we are connected to the digital world most of the time. I am currently sat on holiday, using the hotel WiFi (through a VPN, of course) to Continue Reading
Ctrl + Shift + Space
This shortcut is one for Word users. This is for a non-breaking space. This is useful when you are reporting something that you want to sit together and not be broken if it gets to the end of a line Continue Reading
Academic Infomercial
I expect that a few of us reading this know what an infomercial is. An advert that is designed to look like a magazine article, or a news story, that tries to use (in some cases) pseudoscience or ‘statistics’ (notice Continue Reading
Windows Key + Shift + S
I use this a lot. If you want to capture a portion of your screen, hit this and you can drag a box around it to copy to your clipboard as a Snippet. If you hover a mouse over something, Continue Reading
Ctrl + Shift + Esc
Bypass having to use the Ctrl + Alt + Del screen and quickly access the task manager when you are trying to close that game to make it into a Teams meeting that you have missed the first 5 minutes Continue Reading
Windows Key + . (period)
A fun one for Christmas, using Windows + . you open the panel that lets you select an emoji! Good for Teams chats where a picture can save a lot of explanation.