This page of the Prorgramme Handbook contains information on Essential Tools you will need for all of your courses

• • • • Microsoft Teams

      • Portfolio (WordPress Student Tool)

      • Miro

      • EndNote Web & Cite while you Write

      • Media Hopper Replay

Aims

By the end of Semester 1, Week 1, you will have had the opportunity to:

• Engage with the key e-learning environments and e-tools that we use on the CAT Programme
• Make your first contributions to the two MS Teams Channels you are subscribed to
• Set up, and familiarise yourself with how to use Miro
• Start your own Portfolios (LEARN>WordPress Student Tool) for individual reflection on both courses

Check-list

• Introduce yourself in the CAT community in MS Teams
• Reply to other CATs’ introduction posts in in MS Teams
• Create a Miro Educational Account account
• Set up your two Portfolios (LEARN>WordPress Student Tool) in both courses

Microsoft Teams

How to Create your Portfolio

Your Portfolio is built in the UoE WordPress Student Tool (also know as blogs.ed.ac.uk).

Click on the link in

LEARN > Learning Tools > Portfolio (WordPress Student Tool)

to start building your Portfolio.

The current design is merely functional. Your blog can be repurposed and redesigned if you don’t like how it looks, but, remember, we are only using it as a way of capturing what you are doing on this particular course.

If you haven’t used WordPress before, this short video explains how to….

Create a new post (link)

You can learn more about how WP works here:

WordPress 4 Essential Training (link) in LinkedINLearning

As a University of Edinburgh student, you have a free subscription to LinkedINLearning

Find out more about how to access LinkedINLearning here.

Please be careful when you post; choose to make things public only if you feel they are fit for the public to view.

You can keep things visible only to course peers or tutors only.

Portfolio Examples?

Miro

This MA CAT programme makes extensive use of Miro. In each course, you will work in Miro to some extent.

What is Miro and how do we use it?

Miro is, basically, a whiteboard that you use online. It has many bells and whistles that real whiteboards can’t have. You can scribble on it, rub out your scribbles and rewrite, just like on a real whiteboard. You can also add post-it notes, video, images, files, etc.

The main advantage for you is that you, and your peers, can access it from anywhere.

We are going to use Miro because it allows us to scribble, erase and re-scribble as a group over distance and time.

You will use Miro both for your own individual research and for group work.

Miro for group work:

You will need to establish a sandbox that you can use to play with Miro. To do this, you will need to set up a (free) student Miro account to complete some of your coursework (Educational Account).

You will be able to keep this for two years and can use it to complete some of your coursework. Remember the account is free – do not pay for a subscription!

Please sign up for your account using your UNN@ed.ac.uk email address. Here is the link you need to use to sign-up:

https://miro.com/education-whiteboard/2 (link)

You will add some of the Miro whiteboards you work on and build to your Portfolio.

More on Miro?

Here’s a short overview of Miro for beginners that walks through how it works for collaboration:

https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017571954-How-to-Start-Collaboration-with-Miro (link)

EndNote Web

It’s vitally important that you use a citation / reference manager for your Research Project. The University recommend and support EndNote Web, Endnote X9 and Endnote Cite While You Write.

How EndNote works:

💡You need to use EndNoteWeb for this course.

You can train yourself how to use this by working with LinkedInLearning, here.

Or follow this tutorial>>>

How to use Endnote 20 in 7 minutes

Cite While You Write

To use Cite While You Write, you need a full desktop version of EndNote X9. You can get that free here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/computing/desktop-personal/software/main-software-deals/endnote You then need a plugin for MS Word or Apple Pages (both free).

EndNote really is an essential tool. Set up an EndNote account even if you do not intend to use Cite While You Write. Once you have set it up, add some references relating to you project. Add your supervisor’s email address: (UNN@ed.ac.uk) with permissions to view and add to your collection.

Once you have done this, learn how to directly import references from JSTOR and DiscoverEd using RIS files or via linking yourDiscoverEd account to your EndNote Web account. Keep all of your references and sources in EndNote (no exceptions). You should also deposit your any PDFs you download into EndNote Desktop and annotate them in the EndNote Desktop application. This means your PDFs are easily searchable (indexed) and that they are interlinked (networked). This assists greatly in mapping out your field.

We will continue to use EndNote to build your archive. You can keep this when you graduate and keep working on it within EndNote Web. EndNote Cite-as-you-Write tutorials are on LinkedINLearning (free access from University of Edinburgh) and on the EndNote website.

Endnote – Tips

More info on Referencing and Reference Management