All posts by Alastair Culham

Wikipedian Andy Mabbett is collecting the voices of scientists as Wikipedia sound files.  Read more.

 

 

15Jul/13

Digitally Ready, a retrospective

July 15, 2013Digital community, Internationalisation, Research, Social media, Staff-student partnerships, Technology in fieldwork, Training & resourcesAlastair Culham, Claudia Bernardini, Climate change and Gardening, Digital Literacies for Student Employability, digital literacy, Double Coconut, Facebook, Justin Groves, Matthew Nicholls, School E-Learning Co-ordinators (SELCs), School of Biological Sciences, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP)Alastair Culham

In October 2011 I drafted a brief description of my digital education interests for this blog (when it was just starting) but didn’t get to the point where I wanted to publishRead More…

11Jul/13

Sharing Good Practice – A journey to using Facebook as an educational tool

July 11, 2013Digital community, Dissemination, Employability, Internationalisation, Social media, Staff-student partnershipsAlastair Culham, alumni, BSc projects, Conor Haugh, Facebook, Group Communication, induction, MSc communication, outreachAlastair Culham

I’ve been at Reading University for quite a long time now.  Arriving at Reading fresh from my PhD, during which I managed my research data and wrote my thesis using a SinclairRead More…

03Jul/13

Are we ‘Digitally Ready’ yet?

July 3, 2013Digital community, Meetings & Events, Small project funding schemeAlastair Culham, Digital Community, Helen Setchell, Julian Park, Maria Papaefthimiou, Matthew Nicholls, Pat Parslow, Peter ChattertonAlastair Culham

At 10am on Monday the JISC funded Digitally Ready project group, which broadcasts its progress via a blog and Twitter, met for an evaluation of project progress. A new emphasis for futureRead More…

01Jul/13

Blogging assignments – comments and experiences part 2: BSc Honors Projects

July 1, 2013Assessment & Feedback, Digital community, Employability, Research, Staff-student partnerships, Technology in fieldworkAlastair Culham

One of the challenges with undergraduate projects is to give the student experience of publishing their work.  Sometimes a project fits part of a larger research area and the student gets coRead More…

24Jun/13

Blogging assignments – comments and experiences part 1: MSc formative and summative assignments

June 24, 2013Assessment & Feedback, Digital community, Employability, Internationalisation, Social media, Training & resourcesAlastair Culham, Digital Literacies for Student Employability, digital literacy, Student engagementAlastair Culham

Blogging has become one of the major means of communicating just about anything.  It allows more development of thought than a tweet or Facebook post and is a logical development of theRead More…

13May/13

The Digital Department (Digital literacy project at UCL)

May 13, 2013Digital community, Meetings & Events, Training & resourcesAlastair Culham

At lunchtime today the SELC group and other interested staff met to hear a presentation on The Digital Department (Digital literacy project at UCL), a sister project to Digitally Ready.  It aimsRead More…

05Jan/13

Blogging to the world

January 5, 2013Assessment & Feedback, DisseminationAlastair Culham, Jetpack, readershipAlastair Culham

Blogging is about communication.  Some time ago I used the Word Press Jetpack statistics to check that one of the blogs I was writing had readers (Tropical Biodiversity) but recently the WordRead More…

28Nov/12

Hatchpath revisited

November 28, 2012Digital community, DisseminationAlastair CulhamAlastair Culham

An email this week from Hatchpath telling me that around 10% of our UG stduents had signed up for it led me to look at some of the large part 1 modulesRead More…

27Oct/12

Hatchpath: University of Reading is launch site for new collaborative software

October 27, 2012Digital community, DisseminationAlastair Culham, Blackboard (VLE), Collaborative platform, Facebook, Hatchpath, iPad, Spark, WikisAlastair Culham

I’ve just stumbled across http://hatchpath.com, a site for student exchange of information on their modules.  It seems to have very smooth and intuitive tools for information sharing and strikes me as quiteRead More…