Supporting Digital Higher Education
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Working on multiple monitors? Plugged your laptop into a new classrooms and the display is not set correctly? This shortcut brings up the display options to change whether you extend or duplicate your displays.
A nice little addition to copy and past, you can activate this to have everything you have recently copied to the clipboard available to you. This can be useful when working between pages or spreadsheets.
I have always written in Word, but after having some issues with creating larger documents I decided to teach myself to use LaTeX (pronounced La Tek). Self-development is a more advanced digital literacy skill, and requires a combination of self-reflection, Continue Reading