While on a lunchtime walk or during a break between lectures, there’s nothing better than exploring the campus. On your walk, you may come across birds, plants, fungi, and amphibians that you can’t identify. Using image recognition technology, the Seek by iNaturalist app will help you take your knowledge of nature to the next level!
Our first Employer Profile is with Arad Goch Theatre Company based in Aberystwyth. One of the essential digital skills that Arad Goch values most is the use of Microsoft software. You can view curated collections on LinkedIn Learning for Microsoft Software below:
Company Size: 8 permanent staff but up to 20 with temporary contracts
Founded: 1989
Where is the company based: Aberystwyth
Examples of typical graduate roles:
Technicians
Actors
Schools liaison Officer
Admin Assistant
Marketing Officer
Essential Digital Skills We Value: Digital Proficiency – Use of Microsoft software, SAGE payroll software for finance, software programmes for running production lighting, sound etc. Digital Creativity – Adobe photoshop for leaflets and poster, website design and updates, video editing software Digital Communication – Emails and video calls
How important is social media in the business?: “It comes into a lot of our roles. Everything is by email now but the marketing officers would need to promote our events in the medium of Welsh across all of our social media. Most of our marketing is done through social media now.”
What is your biggest advise to someone tying to get into your industry?: “Experience! I know it is a bit of a catch-22 because you can not get a job without getting the experience but just getting that experience, even volunteering, really gets your foot in the door, then the world is your oyster!”
Do you think that people overlook the importance of digital skills in creative industries?: “Yes, it’s a very important part of our industry. Showing what goes on behind the scene is a good way of getting the message out there and so for example, we make videos of the productions to get people interested. So skills in say digital marketing are critical for us.”
What are you not seeing enough of in terms of these digital skills?: “Technicians are very few and far between so finding people for those roles is quite tricky. There doesn’t seem to be many people around wth lots of marketing experience either.”
If you need to deliver a presentation within a strict time limit, you may want to practice to get your timings perfect. With DigiTip 39, you can learn how to practice your presentation and receive the timings you used per slide. View the short clip below to learn how to rehearse:
This week our seven-week series of Employer Digital Skills Profiles will begin. Similar to the Graduate Profile Series that we released last year, the Employer Profile series is a set of profiles from a variety of employers to help see what digital skills are essential and valued across varying professions. A new profile will be released every Thursday at 11:30 starting this week with the theatre company Arad Goch! Make sure to tune in to read the new profiles and you can go back and read our Graduate Digital Skills Profiles Series here.
Whether your brainstorming new ideas, revising for an exam, or taking notes, mind maps can be an effective tool for solving problems, memorising information, and much more!
Ayoa is a bilingual software that allows you to create as many mind maps as you want for free. You can read more about Ayoa in our previous blogpost.
Have you ever gotten stuck trying to think of a different word to take your sentence to the next level? There’s no need to struggle anymore! With DigiTip 37, learn how to use the synonyms function in Word. View step by step instructions below or watch the short video to learn more!
Simply:
Right click on the chosen word
Hover over ‘synonyms’
Select a new word!
Still not seeing an appropriate word? Select thesaurus and view more!
There may be times when someone has sent you an email, and you’d like to acknowledge its receipt without sending another reply. A great feature to use in this case is the reactions feature in Outlook, which works similarly to those in MS Teams or on various social media platforms.
To react to an email, click on the smiley face button on the top of your screen. You can then choose from six emojis, ranging from a thumbs up 👍 to a sad face! 😥
In September 2023, we launched the new ‘IS Digital Essentials for teaching’ Blackboard site. The site is a culmination of resources from Information Services that any new academic staff member might need. This includes a checklist for everything you need to complete before you begin teaching as well as information and access to resources you could currently need, or you may want to digitally enhance your teaching.
This is a reminder to all academic staff that the Blackboard site is still available to support any new or existing staff. View the Blackboard site to learn more.
If you have any questions or if you’re having trouble accessing the course. Please contact us at: digi@aber.ac.uk
Have you ever been in an MS Teams meeting where you’ve needed to send a quick list that’s easy for others to read? There are actually two quick ways to create bullet points or numbered lists in any MS Teams chat.
Option 1
You can either click on the format icon in the chat, and you can easily create bullet points or a numbered list from here.
Option 2
Or, if you’re in a Teams chat:
Press – and then the space bar to start your bullet points
Press 1. and then the space bar to start a numbered list
