Technology Engagement Group

Meet our Cricut machine

Have you ever wanted to cut your custom designs in different shapes and materials? Join Gerard to show us the magic of a Cricut machine!

When: Wednesday 23 November 2022, 12:00-1:00pm

Chef: Gerard Helmich

Citavi - note-taking and reference management all in one place

Citavi is an all-in-one referencing and note-taking solution available for Windows PCs or via a web browser on all platforms. It integrates with Microsoft Word for document creation. Discover the benefits of this interesting reference management and knowledge organization tool in our TEG session.

When:

• Wednesday 16 March 2022, 12:00-1:00pm
• Tuesday 22 March 2022, 12:00-1:00pm (repeat session)

Chef: Alex Friend

GatherTown

Gather Town is a web-conferencing software like Zoom, but with the added component of seeing the virtual “room” you and others are occupying, and with the ability to move around and interact with other participants based on your locations in the room, just like real life.

When:

• Wednesday 30 March 2022, 12:00-1:00pm
• Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00-1:00pm (repeat session)

Chef: Paul Henshall

Slack - an effective communication tool for teams

Slack is a communication tool offering chat rooms, private groups, video conferencing and direct messaging. Come and discover how Slack is already being used by some departments within Brookes and find out what impact it has had on their daily work.

When: 

• Tuesday 5 October 2021, 12:00-1:00pm
• Thursday 7 October 2021, 12:00-1:00pm

Chefs: Adam Ritchie (Tuesday) and Mina Samangooei (Thursday)

Photography and AI for all

Artificial Intelligence can be used by all of us to improve our existing or new images. Do you have a priceless but blurry photo? Use AI to sharpen it and remove camera shake or motion blur. Need to print a large photo from a small image file? Use a tool to boost the apparent megapixel size. Need to colourise an old black and white image? Come and learn about these tools and more in our AI and photography session.

When: 

• Tuesday 19 October, 12:00-1:00pm
• Tuesday 26 October, 12:00-1:00pm

Chefs: Harry Kalantzis and Gerard Helmich

• Zapworks - Augmented Reality for Brookes students and staff
• 3D printing - print is the Future, just not that sort of print
• Design objects in 3D with Tinkercad (and then 3D print them)
• The Reading Machine, an augmented reality experience
• VR tours - get the full 360 on how it's done
  
• Reimaging your Research in Augmented Reality with the Merge Cube
  
• That's aurasome!
  
• Mobile Photogrammetry
  

Coding, web-development, HTML, Bootstrap and more

• Building your Moodle course with Bootstrap
• WordPress - Get your voice heard, publish your work online
• Cool Tools: Google Chrome Extensions - Let your browser do the heavy lifting
• Google Blocks
  

Conferences, new ideas, developing new spaces.

• Academic Library Makerspaces: Learning from my US case studies
• Lectures at Large: the return of the green screen
  
• What happened in Vegas... a tech review of the E3 show
• InStePP ePioneers - because innovation with technology is most effective when it's a partnership
  

Creating teaching and learning resources

• Using lecture capture software to record library literature search sessions
• Create engaging handwritten video content with Videoscribe
• Byte-sized, Collaborative, or Adaptive Learning?
• Screencastify
• Sway - easy, fast content creation
  

Ways of working, wellbeing, and new tools

• Notion - Your all-in-one digital workspace
  
• Disentangling the Internet
• Here's a ToDo
• Organisational tools
  
• Finding the mark (Google Bookmarks)
  
• Smart inboxes