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Embed a YouTube video in Blackboard
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/06/27/embed-a-youtube-video-in-blackboard/
Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 27, 2016 Adding YouTube videos to your Blackboard course is a good way to provide engaging content.
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Facebook launches Notify News App
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/facebook-launches-notify-news-app/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 As a dedicated app for iOS, it’s designed to be a central hub for alerts from a variety of partners, including BuzzFeed, CNN, Washington Post, Vogue and the Weather Channel.
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Refugee use of mobile phones
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/refugee-use-of-mobile-phones/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 T he Open University has released a research report on how refugees use smartphones. It was led by Prof. Marie Gillespie and was carried out in partnership with France Medias Monde.
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The State of Broadband 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/05/the-state-of-broadband-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2015 Latest annual report from (ITU/ UNESCO) Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development shows that 57% of the world have no broadband access.
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels original papers online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/21/karl-marx-and-friedrich-engels-original-papers-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2015 Free access to the archives from the website of the International Institute of Social History. The site has a detailed contents list. Items offered in German.
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Europe-wide data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/europe-wide-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 T he European Data portal has now passed from Beta to permanence. You can now use it to quickly find news and the latest open data from EU nations.
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‘Privately educated continue to dominate the professions’ in the UK…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/privately-educated-continue-to-dominate-the-professions-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 …according to the latest Sutton Trust report Leading People 2016 .
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Gender statistics database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/04/gender-statistics-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2016 European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) (an autonomous body of the European Union) has just launched a new gender statistics database for researchers which enables easy comparisons...
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Women’s pay
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/womens-pay/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 A report published by the University and College Union on the discrepancy between men’s and women’s pay in the UK HE sector http://www.ucu.org.
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2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/2015-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Just Published by U.S. State Department this annual report which gives a world overview of trends and individual country reports.