Author Archives: Shirley Williams

About Shirley Williams

Shirley Williams is a National Teaching Fellow and Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of Reading. She is involved in a number of research projects related to learning technologies, communities, social networks, Digital identity and knowledge transfer. She also enjoys reading and cooking.

Skype

In a meeting last week I mentioned how much I liked Skype, a couple of comments from other showed not everyone understood how it worked: “I can’t be bothered with all that typing” “What about when I have a bad … Continue reading

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Virtually Presenting

We have a paper accepted in the Global TIME: Global Conference on Technology, Innovation, Media & Education (http://www.aace.org/conf/gtime/) and we have chosen to present virtually. The conference organisers wanted presentation submitted in advance and a recording needed to be made … Continue reading

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Dear Santa

On Twitter I asked the guys @uniapp: @uniapp what would you ask Santa for to help #UoR be Digitally Ready? See ideas at t.co/1xJqqA4w This was their reply: @ShirleyEarley something along the lines of embracing the age of mobile! Thanks … Continue reading

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Social Media: A guide for researchers

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!

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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Academic and Digital Literacies and Writing in the Disciplines

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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ITS training courses

There are a whole host of training courses offered by ITS available for all members of the University see their web page for details. As well as training courses they offer individual help: Drop-In-And-Learn (Di&L) sessions are held throughout the year … Continue reading

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Different Operating Systems

Last week I heard a student talking about the difficulties she had experienced in using Powerpoint on a Mac when she was used to using it on a Windows PC. Later that day I talked to a non-technical colleague about … Continue reading

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A guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities

The London School of Economics and Political Science’ s e Impact of Social Sciences Project have just produced a Twitter Guide for Academics: Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities It’s available under a Creative Commons license. Quoting … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities at Reading

The grouping Digital Humanities at Reading are a group of people who are working in areas where humanities and computing meet. People in this group have different sets of skills they need to be Digitally Ready to many others round … Continue reading

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