Chris Melia articles

Chris Melia

Senior Learning Technologist, University of Central Lancashire and Microsoft Learning Consultant

4 ways to create and share a learning podcast with your students

Education

Published 22/10/2020

New ways of learning: 4 steps to record and share a podcast with your students

Podcasts are an increasingly popular medium of educational content, and can often be leveraged to great effect in teaching and learning.

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Education

Published 21/07/2020

How to make engaging virtual lessons for students

With PowerPoint and Microsoft Stream, you can create engaging and creative virtual lessons you can share with students in a remote learning environment.

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Cross-industry

Published 21/01/2020

4 tips for delivering a successful staff CPD programme

A successful CPD programme can deliver culture of innovative, supportive, and collaborative employees. Find out how to get started here.

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Education

Published 10/12/2019

9 ways to transform the student learning experience with Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams has become one of the most rapidly evolving digital collaboration platforms of recent times. Usage across the education sector is now growing, with institutions starting to adopt Teams as their ‘go-to’ for teacher collaboration and communication.

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Education

Published 07/06/2018

Cultivating collaborations with learner communities in Teams

As a Learning Technologist, I work closely with our Faculty of Health and Wellbeing as digital learning lead, to effectively embed technology into learning and teaching practice. I am passionate about my work and find the collaboration between academic colleagues and technologists to be particularly rewarding.