Monthly Archives: December 2011

Letters to Santa: A ‘can do’ culture

Posted on December 22, 2011 by patparslow

Hi, Santa has asked me to reply to your letter.  I am so sorry to hear that you have had to use the CMS, I and many other elves’ hearts go out to you. Upskilling is what we are all … Continue reading →

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Letters to Santa: Time and opportunity to experiment and learn

Posted on December 21, 2011 by patparslow

Dear Devoted Helper, Thank you so much for your letter, which I think highlights some wants and desires shared by many of us!  We will certainly do our best to share examples of practice.  Please do let us know of … Continue reading →

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Letters to Santa

Posted on December 20, 2011 by patparslow

As Maria mentioned, we ran a workshop on Monday, gathering information for our baseline report, including some identification of existing opportunities for improvement.  It should be noted that we specifically asked the workshop attendees to focus on things which could … Continue reading →

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‘The good, the bad and the ugly’, letters to Santa and digital literacies

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Julian Park

We have been working on the baseline report for the last couple of months and today we held a (festive!) workshop with 20 people representing students, lecturers, support and professional staff. Participants worked in groups and with great enthusiasm on a … Continue reading →

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Developing T&L with the use of technology

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Julian Park

Here in the Centre for the Development of T&L we engage with academic staff to help them design their courses and develop their teaching approaches using technology. Apart from working very closely with individuals and teams we deliver a number … Continue reading →

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Social Media: A guide for researchers

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Shirley Williams

A good guide for researchers looking to get into Social Media: Cann, A., K. Dimitriou, and T. Hooley, Social Media: A guide for researchers, 2011, Research Information Network, UK. Available for free download at: http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers Along with lots of links … Continue reading →

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Digital Researcher – Go Digital 2012!

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Shirley Williams

Vitae in partnership with The British Library are running Digital Researcher 2012: an innovative, thought-provoking one day event to help researchers make the most of new technologies and social media tools in their research. You can listen to what happened … Continue reading →

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Digital Christmas

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Nadja Guggi

Leave a Christmas message and help us decorate our digital Christmas trees at http://www.reading.ac.uk/seasons-greetings

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Academic and Digital Literacies and Writing in the Disciplines

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Shirley Williams

There is a new journal of Academic Writing it is open access and peer reviewed so readers can access the materials and have confidence in the fact that materials are reviewed. The first paper caught my attention as it mentioned … Continue reading →

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