Can't get enough?
Categories
- Assessment & Feedback
- Digital community
- Digital Heroes
- Dissemination
- Employability
- Internationalisation
- Meetings & Events
- Placement student showcase
- Research
- Small project funding scheme
- Social media
- Staff-student partnerships
- Technology in fieldwork
- Training & resources
- Uncategorized
- Video
- Work/Academic placements
Tags
- 'Sharing Good Practice' event
- Academic Writing
- Alastair Culham
- Blackboard (VLE)
- Careers Placements Experience Centre
- Department of Art
- Department of Typography & Graphic Communication
- Digital Development Team
- Digital Literacies for Student Employability
- digital literacy
- E-books
- Existing and Emerging Biotechnologies (EEB) Framework
- Gerry Leonidas
- Guy Pursey
- iPad
- Julian Park
- Katerina Lazidou
- Letters to Santa
- Matthew Nicholls
- Nadja Guggi
- Neil Morris
- Pat Parslow
- Rachel Glover
- Research
- Sam Holton
- School E-Learning Co-ordinators (SELCs)
- School of Biological Sciences
- School of Construction Management and Engineering
- School of Systems Engineering
- Sir David Bell KCB
- Social media
- Staff training & development
- Student employability
- Student engagement
- Summer Employment Experience and Discovery (SEED)
- Teaching & Learning Showcase events
- Tee Nadan
- Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP)
- Video
- VLE
- Wikis
- Yammer
Author Archives: Alastair Culham
A digitally prepared project
The UROP placement to further develop the Whiteknights Biodiversity web presence has been funded. This project falls well within the bounds of our Digitally Ready project and I am hoping Pat will be able to conduct a before and after … Continue reading
24 hours without Wikipedia?
Wikipedia are advertising their intent to black out the English language version of their site for 24 hours. That will provide a great opportunity for data gathering on changes of web page use. I will be watching with interest 🙂
A suggestion for the improvement of Blackboard from one of our students
… Via a comment on one of the closed Facebook groups I run. ” It’s a shame that Blackboard doesn’t have a calendar tool that gives us a one page screen shot of all module assessment dates.” I agree – … Continue reading
Posted in Staff-student partnerships, Training & resources
Tagged Alastair Culham, Blackboard (VLE)
2 Comments
Email – usage and abusage
The classic work on the writing of good english ‘Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English’ has helped a generation to improve their written work. The use of email, and what should be accepted as good or bad practice, … Continue reading
Posted in Digital community, Training & resources
Tagged Alastair Culham, Email, Mrs Trellis
25 Comments
Copyright awareness
Working through the unpublished draft student blogs in Whiteknights biodiversity with Jonathan Mitchley this morning we found that 75% of the students used images that were either other people’s copyright, did not have sufficient associated labelling to know whether use … Continue reading
Digital literacy in the Wilderness
Over the past two weeks I’ve been working with my colleague, Jonathan Mitchley, to guide an MSc group of 24 students thorugh the writing of their first blog on the Whiteknights biodiversity site. The rather ambitious setting of an assessed … Continue reading
The first blog from the new crop of MSc Plant Diversity students appeared today in Whiteknights biodiversity. It’s a short blog on a gall seen on a creeping thistle. What is interesting to me is that I haven’t yet trained … Continue reading
Whiteknights Biodiversity, a young blog for an old green space
Whiteknights campus includes some outstanding green spaces that attract students to make Reading their university of choice. Scattered on shelves, in filing cabinets on computer disks, and sitting in brains, are pieces of research by staff and students recording the … Continue reading