Author Archives: Nadja Guggi

Digitally Ready: a launchpad for digital developments at Reading

Sir David Bell KCB, University Vice-Chancellor here at Reading, spoke at last week’s event to mark how far Reading has come in digital terms, ‘Digitally Ready: Celebrating our achievements’. His ‘view from the top’ touched on the major strategic developments … Continue reading

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Digitally Ready: Recognising the importance of support networks in developing Teaching & Learning

Digitally Ready is delighted to welcome Stefanie Anyadi and Clive Young of the The Digital Department, our partner project based at University College London (UCL), who will be visiting Reading on 13 May 2013 for a lunchtime session to talk … Continue reading

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Sneak preview: Digitally Ready at PELeCON

I am writing this en route en to Devon where I will be presenting a paper on ‘Digital literacies and work placements’ at Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCON) tomorrow morning. As I was getting my thoughts together for the talk … Continue reading

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Celebrating ‘digital’ at Reading

We still have a few places available for our showcase event ‘Digitally Ready: Celebrating our achievements’ which will take place next Monday, 15 April 11.00 am to 2.30 pm. As the Digitally Ready project draws to a close, it’s time … Continue reading

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T & L Reading: Teaching & Learning news – digital and otherwise

  We are delighted to bring you the latest issue of T & L Reading, our new collaborative newsletter of Teaching & Learning policy and practice, with key articles, news, and headlines from around the University of Reading – digital … Continue reading

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Digitally Ready: Celebrating our achievements

Staff and students at Reading are warmly invited to our showcase event, ‘Digitally Ready: Celebrating our achievements’ on Monday 15 April, 11.00 am to 2.00 pm. As the Digitally Ready project draws to a close, it’s time to celebrate our … Continue reading

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In defence of lurking

Some of you readers out there have been kind of enough to let me know that on occasion you enjoy my missives on this blog – but it seems that I misstepped in last month’s post on ‘Enterprise social networking: … Continue reading

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Putting the ‘social’ in enterprise social networking

With our Digital Development Forum on ‘Enterprise Social Networking: What’s in it for me?’ coming up tomorrow, I thought I would pick up where I left off in my last blog post about our Yammer experiment here at Reading – … Continue reading

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Progress with Digitally Ready: top down, bottom up

Last week, we invited our colleagues here at Reading for a lunchtime Show & TEL on ‘Progress with Digitally Ready’ – a chance to find out more about some of our digital initiatives on the ground, as well as the … Continue reading

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Online resources for physical and life sciences students

Even more online support has been made available for students here at Reading seeking work placement and graduate employment. A new online tool dedicated to helping students find opportunities within the life sciences industry has been launched this month by the … Continue reading

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